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watermark

[ waw-ter-mahrk, wot-er- ]

noun

  1. a mark indicating the height to which water rises or has risen, as in a river or inlet.
  2. a figure or design impressed in some paper during manufacture, visible when the paper is held to the light.
  3. Also dig·it·al wa·ter·mark []. Computers. a small piece of code or identifiable data sequence embedded into a digital file, usually an image or an audio or video file, as a traceable marker of origin or ownership.


verb (used with object)

  1. to mark (paper or a digital file) with a watermark.
  2. to impress (a design, pattern, etc.), as a watermark.
  3. Computers. to place (a digital identifier) into a file.

watermark

/ ˈwɔːtəˌmɑːk /

noun

  1. a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture, visible when the paper is held up to the light
  2. another word for water line water line
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to mark (paper) with a watermark
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • un·wa·ter·marked adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of watermark1

First recorded in 1625–35; water + mark 1
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Example Sentences

Pay the $2 upgrade fee to get access to all of the features, such as a scrollbar removal and the option to drop in watermarks on top of your screenshots.

YouTube’s decision to bar videos carrying other platforms’ watermark fits with this trend.

From Digiday

The free trial version will leave watermarks on your documents, but if you want to get rid of them, it’ll cost you $50 for 6 months, or $90 for an entire year.

Over the past month, workers used ultraviolet light to check ballots for watermarks that don’t exist.

Bennett at one point said the workers were hunting for watermarks — though county officials have said the Maricopa County ballots don’t bear watermarks.

Do they really need to post this video, which TMZ proudly put their watermark over so that everyone knows where it came from?

Such watermark images are features more generally seen in foreign currencies than American ones.

Or Wintour, who has another agenda entirely for promoting rail-thinness as the watermark for beauty?

There was no doubt about it, the mark on the dirty blank paper was undoubtedly the Treasury watermark.

Later on I recognised the peculiar watermark of waving lines as the Government watermark in the first issue of Treasury war notes.

I could not account for the Treasury watermark, designed to prevent forgery of the notes, appearing on a piece of blank paper.

As to the position of the watermark in the sheets, I believe it to be central.

The watermark on this issue appears variously upright or sideways, varieties of each being inverted.

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