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marquee can refer to several things:
- A large tent, open-sided and installed outdoors for temporary functions
- Marquee, a song by Superchunk
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster.-History:...
from their 1997 album Indoor LivingIndoor Living is the sixth studio album by Superchunk, released by Merge Records in 1997. It was recorded at Echo Park Studios in Bloomington, Indiana, and mixed at Overdub Lane, Durham, North Carolina...
- Marquee Cinemas
Marquee Cinemas is a chain of movie theaters operated out of Beckley, West Virginia since its 1979 inception.Currently, the chain consists of nineteen theaters in the following locations....
, a movie theater chain in the United States
- The Marquee Club
The Marquee was a music club first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts. It was also the location of the first ever live performance by The Rolling Stones on 12 July 1962....
, 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)
A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel or theatre. It has signage stating either the name of the establishment or, in the case of theatres, the play or movie and the artist appearing at that venue...
, 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
The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML markup element type which causes text to scroll up, down, left or right. The tag was first introduced in early versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and was compared to Netscape's blink element, as a proprietary non-standard extension to the HTML standard...
, an HTML tag that makes text scroll across the page as if on a marquee
- Marquee (website) is an 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.
- Marquee selection
The marching ants effect is an animation technique often found in selection tools of computer graphics programs. It helps the user to distinguish the selection border from the image background by animating the border. The border is a dotted or dashed line where the dashes seem to slowly walk...
, a common GUI element for selecting items within an area.
- The Marquee Theatre
Marquee Theatre is a large music venue in Tempe, Arizona. The theatre sits right next to the Salt River across from the Mill Avenue Bridge, along Mill Avenue, the primary business and entertainment district in Tempe....
, a concert venue in Phoenix, Arizona, US
- FactSet Marquee is a real-time news and quotes software application from FactSet Research Systems
FactSet Research Systems is a financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk, CT. The company provides financial information and analytic software for investment professionals. In 2007, annual sales were $475.8 million....
- Marquee (New York club), a nightclub in Chelsea, Manhattan
- Marquee Records, a record label
- Marquee (screensaver), a screensaver from Microsoft Corporation for its Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces...
computers up to Windows XPWindows XP is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, and media centers. The name "XP" is short for "eXPerience"...
- some software products (Adobe PhotoShop
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems...
or ActiveVOS by Active Endpoints for instance) refer to Marquee as a rectangular selection