Marking may refer to:

Symbols

Marking may refer to human-made symbols and

annotation An annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document or other piece of information. It can be a note that includes a comment or explanation. Annotations are sometimes presented in the margin of book pages. For anno ...

s in several contexts:

On vehicles

* Aircraft marking *

Emergency vehicle equipment Emergency vehicle equipment is any equipment fitted to, or carried by, an emergency vehicle, other than the equipment that a standard non-emergency vehicle is fitted with (such as headlights, steering wheels, and windshield/windscreens). Visu ...

markings **

Battenburg markings Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas T ...

, emergency vehicle patterns * Vehicle markings of the United States military * Police vehicle markings (US/Canada) * Sail Class Markings, figures placed on the sail of sailing boats to mark the boat type * Semi-trailer truck marking lights

On other manufactured goods

Card marking Card marking is the process of altering playing cards in a method only apparent to marker or conspirator, such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card. This allows different methods for card sharps to cheat or for magicians to perform magi ...

, altering playing cards in secret for use in magic tricks or cheating *

Conductor marking lights Aviation obstruction lighting is used to enhance the visibility of structures or fixed obstacles which may conflict with the safe navigation of aircraft. Obstruction lighting is commonly installed on towers, buildings, and even fences located i ...

, power line markers * Direct part marking, a process to mark parts with product information *

Photographic film markings Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

Road surface marking Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed with road marking machines (also referred to as road marking equipment or pavement marking eq ...

, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface *

UID-marking Unique Identification Marking, UID marking, Item Unique Identification or IUID, is a part of the compliance process mandated by the United States Department of Defense. It is a permanent marking method used to give equipment a unique ID. Marking is ...

, permanent marking used by the US Department of Defense

Other symbols

Grading (education) Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements for varying levels of achievements in a course. Grades can be assigned as letters (usually A through F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), as a percentage, or as a numbe ...

, evaluation of the performance of a student *

Lamb marking Lamb or The Lamb may refer to: * A young sheep * Lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep Arts and media Film, television, and theatre * ''The Lamb'' (1915 film), a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his screen debut * ''The Lamb'' (1918 ...

, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep *

Postal marking A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotation ...

, annotation applied to a letter by a postal service *

, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface *

Territorial marking In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression. A ...

, a behavior used by animals to identify their territory *

Trail blazing Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail. A blaz ...

, marks in outdoor areas that indicate the direction of a trail * The process of assigning priorities to objects of interest, for the purposes of targeting, surveillance or

analysis Analysis ( : analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (3 ...

* Timber marking, selecting the trees to be cut in a forest stand by marking them with a

marking axe Marking axe or marking hatchet is a small hatchet which is used by forest workers to mark trees designated for logging or for thinning. These axes were used also for trail blazing Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking path ...

Linguistics

Marker (linguistics) In linguistics, a marker is a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence. Most characteristically, markers occur as clitics or inflectional affixes. In analytic languages and agglutinati ...

, a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence *

Markedness In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant defau ...

, the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form

People

Havana Marking Havana Marking is a British producer and director of documentary films. She is known for her first feature documantary in 2009 ''Afghan Star''. This film won Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Plot The f ...

, British producer and director of documentary films

Sports

Marking (association football) In association football, marking is an organized defensive tactic which aims to prevent a member of the opposing team (usually a striker) from taking control of the ball. Several marking strategies exist in football, and they mostly differ from e ...

, assigning a defender to a certain offensive player: **

Man-to-man marking In association football, marking is an organized defensive tactic which aims to prevent a member of the opposing team (usually a striker) from taking control of the ball. Several marking strategies exist in football, and they mostly differ from e ...

Zonal marking In association football, marking is an organized defensive tactic which aims to prevent a member of the opposing team (usually a striker) from taking control of the ball. Several marking strategies exist in football, and they mostly differ from e ...

Mark (Australian football) A mark in Australian rules football is the catch of a kicked ball which earns the catching player a free kick. The catch must be cleanly taken, or deemed by the umpire to have involved control of the ball for sufficient time. A tipped ball, or ...

, the action of catching an airborne kicked ball in Australian rules football

Other uses

* Animal markings, such as the spots of a leopard or horse markings *

, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep * Jehovah's Witnesses "marking", withdrawing of close association from a congregant according to Thessalonians 3:14 *

Sole markings Sole marks are sedimentary structures found on the bases of certain strata, that indicate small-scale (usually on the order of centimetres) grooves or irregularities. This usually occurs at the interface of two differing lithologies and/or gra ...

, a type of sedimentary structure *

Trace evidence Trace evidence is created when objects make contact. The material is often transferred by heat or induced by contact friction. The importance of trace evidence in criminal investigations was shown by Dr. Edmond Locard in the early 20th century. ...

, in forensic science * ''

Vägmärken ''Vägmärken'' (''Markings'', or more literally ''Waymarks''), published in 1963, is the only book by former UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld. The journal was discovered after his death, with a covering letter to his literary executor, "a ...

'' (''Markings''), a book by Dag Hammarskjold