The word marquee can refer to several things:
- 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. A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope Superchunk is an Indie rock band from Chapel Hill North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Indoor Living is the sixth studio album by Superchunk. It was released by Merge Records in 1997 Marquee Cinemas is a chain of Movie theaters operated out of Beckley West Virginia since its 1979 inception The Marquee is a legendary music club first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and Skiffle A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a Hotel or Theatre.
- 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 tag is a non-standard HTML markup element type which causes text to scroll up down left or right
- 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
- See also: Marquis (disambiguation)
FactSet Research Systems ( is a financial data and software company headquartered in Norwalk CT. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Windows XP is a family of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on Personal computers including home and
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marquee
-noun
- (UK) A large tent used for outdoors entertainment
- (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign whose letters move from right to left
- (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
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