watermark

English

Etymology

From water +‎ mark.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːtəmɑːk/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

watermark (plural watermarks)

1. A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
2. (by extension) A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
3. (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.
4. (graphical user interface) A default hint caption displayed in a text box prior to the user inputting any text.
5. A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.

Derived terms

• digital watermark

Translations

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, marca ácuea f, marca acuosa 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

Verb

watermark (third-person singular simple present watermarks, present participle watermarking, simple past and past participle watermarked)

1. (transitive) To mark paper with a watermark.
2. (transitive) To mark a datafile with a digital watermark.

Translations

to mark paper with a watermark

• Finnish: vesileimata
• French: filigraner (fr)
• German: mit Wasserzeichen versehen
• Greek: υδατοσημαίνω (ydatosimaíno)

to mark a datafile with a digital watermark

• Finnish: vesileimata