marquee
See also: marquée
English
Etymology
From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iː
Noun
marquee (plural marquees)
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
- (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
- (US, by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
- Synonyms: chase lights, chaser lights
- An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
- (Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
- (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
- Synonym: marching ants
- Rectangular Marquee Tool
Derived terms
Translations
large tent
projecting canopy
selection tool
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a banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally
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Adjective
marquee (not comparable)
- Most famous; preeminent.
- 2012, Joe Tiller, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, →ISBN:
- Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.
- 2013, Vince Gennaro, Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, →ISBN, page 96:
- Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.
- 2013, Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost, Fashion, Design and Events, →ISBN, page 89:
- Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.
- 2014, Jordan St. John, Lost Breweries of Toronto, →ISBN:
- The marquee product was his Salvador lager beer, which, he claimed in the advertising material from the first decade of the twentieth century, was Canada's most famous brew.
- 2022 September 7, Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen, “Apple Extends Reach With $800 Watch, as New iPhone Inches Along”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- But as the marquee device has grown older and its improvements have gotten more incremental, the tech giant has shifted its focus to younger products with more runway for innovation: the Apple Watch and AirPods.
Verb
marquee (third-person singular simple present marquees, present participle marqueeing, simple past and past participle marqueed)
- (graphical user interface) To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
- To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it.
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