marquee

plural marquees

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKA large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.

   Synonyms: big top

2. USA projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
3. USby generalizationLights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.

   Synonyms: chase lights, chaser lights

4. An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
5. InternetA banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
6. computingIn graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.

   Rectangular Marquee Tool

   Synonyms: marching ants

1. not comparableMost famous; preeminent.

   Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.

   2012, Joe Tiller, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, →ISBN

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   Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.

   2013, Vince Gennaro, Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, →ISBN, page 96

   Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.

   2013, Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost, Fashion, Design and Events, →ISBN, page 89

   The marquee product was his Salvador lager beer, which, he claimed in the advertising material from the first decade of the twentieth century, was Canada's most famous brew.

   2014, Jordan St. John, Lost Breweries of Toronto, →ISBN

   But as the marquee device has grown older and its improvements have gotten more incremental, the tech giant has shifted its focus to younger products with more runway for innovation: the Apple Watch and AirPods.

   2022 September 7, Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen, “Apple Extends Reach With $800 Watch, as New iPhone Inches Along”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Many of the marquee names in Democratic politics began quickly lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, but one towering presence in the party was conspicuously and purposefully absent: Barack Obama.

   2024 July 22, Glenn Thrush, “Why Obama Hasn’t Endorsed Harris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

present singular third person marquees · participle present marqueeing · participle past marqueed · past marqueed

1. computingTo select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
2. To display text prominently at the top, as in a video.

   The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation.