Marking

Marking may refer to:

Symbols

Marking may refer to human-made symbols and annotations in several contexts:

On vehicles

• Aircraft marking
• Emergency vehicle equipment markings
  • Battenburg markings, 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, altering playing cards in secret for use in magic tricks or cheating
• Conductor marking lights, power line markers
• Direct part marking, a process to mark parts with product information
• Photographic film markings
• Road surface marking, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
• UID-marking, permanent marking used by the US Department of Defense

Other symbols

• Grading (education), evaluation of the performance of a student
• Lamb marking, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep
• Postal marking, annotation applied to a letter by a postal service
• Road surface marking, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
• Territorial marking, a behavior used by animals to identify their territory
• Trail blazing, 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
• Timber marking, selecting the trees to be cut in a forest stand by marking them with a marking axe

Linguistics

• Marker (linguistics), a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence
• Markedness, the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form

People

• Havana Marking, British producer and director of documentary films

Sports

• Marking (association football), assigning a defender to a certain offensive player:
  • Man-to-man marking
  • Zonal marking
• Mark (Australian football), 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
• Lamb marking, 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, a type of sedimentary structure
• Trace evidence, in forensic science
• Vägmärken (Markings), a book by Dag Hammarskjold

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Marking
• All pages with titles containing Marking
• Marking gauge
• Marking knife
• Marking out
• Marking scheme
• Marking Time (disambiguation)
• Mark (disambiguation)