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marcador

scoreboard

noun mahr-kah-DOHR Less Common

Also means

marker

Usage Note

Marcador primarily means a scoreboard or score in sports (el marcador está 2-1), but it also means a felt-tip marker or highlighter pen in everyday stationery use. Context resolves the sense easily. The verb is marcar.

Examples

"El marcador mostraba un empate."

Natural Translation

The scoreboard showed a tie.

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