watermark
a figure or design impressed in some paper during manufacture, visible when the paper is held to the light.
Also dig·it·al wa·ter·mark [dij-i-tl waw-ter-mahrk, wot-er-] /ˈdɪdʒ ɪ tl ˈwɔ tərˌmɑrk, ˈwɒt ər-/ .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.
to mark (paper or a digital file) with a watermark.
to impress (a design, pattern, etc.), as a watermark.
Computers. to place (a digital identifier) into a file.
Origin of watermark
1Other words from watermark
- un·wa·ter·marked, adjective
Words Nearby watermark
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How to use watermark in a sentence
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.
YouTube’s creator fund for YouTube Shorts will not exclude videos posted to other platforms | Tim Peterson | August 6, 2021 | DigidayThe 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.
Observers report ballots and laptop computers have been left unattended in Arizona recount, according to secretary of state | Rosalind Helderman | May 5, 2021 | Washington Post
Do they really need to post this video, which TMZ proudly put their watermark over so that everyone knows where it came from?
TMZ Makes Tragedy Porn Out of Tracy Morgan’s Gruesome Car Accident | Dean Obeidallah | June 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch watermark images are features more generally seen in foreign currencies than American ones.
All About the Benjamins: Here’s the Redesigned $100 Bill | Daniel Gross | October 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOr 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.
The Shrieking Pit | Arthur J. ReesLater on I recognised the peculiar watermark of waving lines as the Government watermark in the first issue of Treasury war notes.
The Shrieking Pit | Arthur J. ReesI could not account for the Treasury watermark, designed to prevent forgery of the notes, appearing on a piece of blank paper.
The Shrieking Pit | Arthur J. ReesAs to the position of the watermark in the sheets, I believe it to be central.
Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery | Clifton Armstrong HowesThe watermark on this issue appears variously upright or sideways, varieties of each being inverted.
Gambia | Frederick John Melville
British Dictionary definitions for watermark
/ (ˈwɔːtəˌmɑːk) /
a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture, visible when the paper is held up to the light
another word for water line (def. 1), water line (def. 2)
to mark (paper) with a watermark
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