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# watermark

«watermark» in Mova's school dictionary: **A faint picture or pattern pressed into paper, which you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a watermark, watermarks); verb (watermark, watermarks, watermarked)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A faint picture or pattern pressed into paper, which you can see when you hold it up to the light; banknotes have them to show they are real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#m1)

2) A faint logo or word put over a digital picture or document to show who owns it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#m2)

3) A mark showing how high water has reached, as in "high-water mark". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#m3)

4) (verb) To put a watermark on paper or a picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In money and maths lessons on coins and notes, the watermark is one of the security features that help stop forged money. Online, a watermark on a photo shows it belongs to someone and should not be copied without permission. Phrases: "hold it up to the light to see the watermark", "high-water mark".

### examples

- Hold the banknote up to the light and you will see the watermark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x1)
- The photo had the photographer's name as a watermark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x2)
- The school watermarked the test papers with its logo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x3)
- A real banknote has a watermark; a fake one may not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x4)
- The flood left a dirty watermark on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x5)
- Don't copy pictures with watermarks; they belong to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/#x6)

### note

Countable. One word. "High-water mark" also means the best or highest point of something ("the high-water mark of her career"). Copying a watermarked picture without permission can break copyright rules.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «watermark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/watermark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.