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
Marking gauge Marking knife Marking out Marking scheme Marking Time (disambiguation) Mark (disambiguation)