Marking

Marking may refer to:

Symbols
Marking may refer to human-made symbols and annotations in several contexts:

On vehicles

 * Aircraft marking
 * Emergency vehicle equipment markings
 * Battenburg markings, emergency vehicle patterns
 * Vehicle markings of the United States military
 * 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, 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, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
 * UID-marking, permanent marking used by the US Department of Defense

Other symbols

 * Grading (education), evaluation of the performance of a student
 * Lamb marking, a process of earmarking, castration and tail-docking of the lambs of domestic sheep
 * Postal marking, annotation applied to a letter by a postal service
 * Road surface marking, such as lines or words, or the stripes of a zebra crossing on a road surface
 * Territorial marking, a behavior used by animals to identify their territory
 * Trail blazing, 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 or analysis
 * Timber marking, selecting the trees to be cut in a forest stand by marking them with a marking axe

Linguistics

 * Marker (linguistics), a free or bound morpheme that indicates the grammatical function of the marked word, phrase, or sentence
 * Markedness, the state of standing out as unusual or divergent in comparison to a more common or regular form

People

 * Havana Marking, British producer and director of documentary films

Sports

 * Marking (association football), assigning a defender to a certain offensive player:
 * Man-to-man marking
 * Zonal marking
 * Mark (Australian football), the action of catching an airborne kicked ball in Australian rules football

Other uses

 * Animal markings, such as the spots of a leopard or horse markings
 * Lamb marking, 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, a type of sedimentary structure
 * Trace evidence, in forensic science
 * Vägmärken (Markings), a book by Dag Hammarskjold