To be in the correct position, for instance setting up for a turn in racing, or the right distance from the camera in filming.

Synonym of guillemet

plural of double angle quotation mark

Alternative form of on your mark, get set, go

(sports) A three-command start when racing:

In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.

(linguistics) The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.

plural of markedness

(phonology) In Optimality Theory, universal features that languages prefer to keep unviolated.