English

Etymology

Noun

1. A large tent used for outdoors entertainment
2. A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign whose letters move from right to left
3. In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.

   Rectangular Marquee Tool

• A large tent, open-sided and installed outdoors for temporary functions
• Marquee, a song by Superchunk from their 1997 album Indoor Living
• Marquee Cinemas, a movie theater chain in the United States
• The Marquee Club, commonly called The Marquee, a famous rock club in London
• Marquee player, a top-tier athlete and major selling point of a team or league
• Marquee (sign), used in American English to mean a signage above a stage or movie theater or a sign that displays messages such as those used in front of churches and schools.
• Marquee tag, an HTML tag that makes text scroll across the page as if on a marquee
• Marquee (website) is a area at the top of a webpage (usually on a home page or a website section) that holds multi-media content such as graphics, videos, adobe flash or similar.
• The Marquee Theater, a concert venue in Phoenix, Arizona, US
• FactSet Marquee is a real-time news and quotes software application from FactSet Research Systems
• Marquee (club), a nightclub in Manhattan
• Marquee Records, a record label
• Marquee (screensaver), a screensaver from Microsoft Inc. for its Windows computers up to Windows XP