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)