Marking may refer to:

Symbols

Marking may refer to human-made

symbol A symbol is a mark, Sign (semiotics), sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, physical object, object, or wikt:relationship, relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by cr ...

s 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 Marginalia, in the margin of book page ...

s in several contexts:

On vehicles

Aircraft marking Aircraft markings are symbols and annotations painted on aircraft, primarily for visual identification. Types of aircraft markings include: *Aircraft registration, unique alphanumeric string that identifies every aircraft *Invasion stripes, alterna ...

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 windscreen, windshield/windscre ...

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 Terr ...

, emergency vehicle patterns *

Vehicle markings of the United States military United States Army vehicles must be marked with a unit designation to foster accountability and promote attention to detail during maintenance operations. The term "bumper number" refers the combination of numbers and letters on the front and rear ...

* 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 Cheating in poker, cheat or for magic ...

, 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 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 application of standardized measurements to evaluate different levels of student achievement in a course. Grades can be expressed as letters (usually A to F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), percentages, or as numb ...

, evaluation of the performance of a student *

Lamb marking Lamb marking is the term applied to the procedure of Earmark (agriculture), earmarking, Castration#Other_animals, castration and Docking_(animal)#Sheep, tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep. Vaccination is usually carried out then, too. She ...

, 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 annotati ...

, 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 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 Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, many activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing, or directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as ...

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 (38 ...

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

marking axe A marking axe or marking hatchet is a small hatchet which was 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 p ...

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 agglutina ...

, 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 documentary in 2009 ''Afghan Star (film), Afghan Star''. This film won Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Fest ...

, 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 Animal coloration is the general appearance of an animal resulting from the reflection or emission of light from its surfaces. Some animals are brightly coloured, while others are hard to see. In some species, such as the peafowl, the male h ...

, 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 occurs when objects make contact, and material is transferred. This type of evidence is usually not visible to the naked eye and requires specific tools and techniques to be located and obtained. Due to this, trace evidence is often ...

, in forensic science * ''

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 sort of White B ...

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