Bookmarking

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The practice of marking a digital page or content section for future quick access
2. The procedure of saving a digital location within online content to revisit later
3. The action of storing a website link or page to easily find it again in the future

Etymology: Bookmarks were once made from a sliver of wood or a strip of leather, and the old English word for them was "æstel", borrowed from a Latin word meaning "little spear". That older word was eventually pushed out by a native compound. Middle English speakers combined "book" and "mark" to describe the thing that marked your place in a book, and that plain, literal name survived into modern English. The verb "bookmarking" is a modern extension of that old sense. A physical marker placed between pages became a way of noting a place in a text, and then, once browsers appeared, a way of saving the address of a web page so you could return to it later. The word moved from paper to screen without changing its shape at all.

Synonyms: saving, marking