Etymology
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water + mark
Pronunciation
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watermark (plural watermarks)
- A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
- (by extension) A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
- (computing) A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents.
- A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
Derived terms
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Translations
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translucent design impressed on paper
- Bulgarian: воден знак m (voden znak)
- Catalan: filigrana (ca) f, marca d'aigua (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水印 (zh) (shuǐyìn)
- Czech: vodotisk (cs) m, vodoznak (cs) m, průsvitka (cs) f, filigrán (cs) m
- Danish: vandmærke n
- Dutch: watermerk (nl)
- Finnish: vesileima (fi)
- French: filigrane (fr) m
- German: Wasserzeichen (de) n
- Greek: υδατόσημο (el) n (ydatósimo), υδατογράφημα (el) n (ydatográfima)
- Hungarian: vízjel (hu)
- Italian: filigrana (it) f
- Japanese: 透かし (すかし, sukashi)
- Kazakh: сәулебелгі (säulebelgı)
- Korean: 워터마크 (woteomakeu), 수위표(水位標) (suwipyo)
- Latvian: ūdenszīme
- Malay: tera air
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vannmerke n, vassmerke n
- Nynorsk: vassmerke n
- Polish: znak wodny (pl) m
- Portuguese: marca d’água f, marca de água f
- Russian: водяно́й знак (ru) m (vodjanój znak)
- Slovak: vodotlač f
- Spanish: marca de agua (es) f, filigrana (es) f
- Swedish: vattenstämpel (sv) c, vattenmärke (sv) n
- Tagalog: piligrana
- Thai: ลายน้ำ (th) (laai-náam)
- Turkish: filigran (tr)
- Ukrainian: водяни́й знак m (vodjanýj znak)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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watermark (third-person singular simple present watermarks, present participle watermarking, simple past and past participle watermarked)
- (transitive) To mark paper with a watermark.
- (transitive) To mark a datafile with a digital watermark.
Translations
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to mark paper with a watermark
to mark a datafile with a digital watermark
