WORDSMIFFS: you can't use "watermark" like this, can you?

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FOR EXAMPLE:

blah blah blah My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, the watermark release of the shoegaze movement.

blah blah My Bloody Valentine's watermark Loveless.

I think I might be mixing it up with 'watershed,' but the definition of 'watermark' seems like it could make sense, like, the highest point reached by something.

eh?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

DEFINE:WATERMARK

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i think you want "high-water mark"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Ans: No. A watermark is an impression left on a sheet of paper that identifies the mill/brand; usually invisible until the sheet is held up to the light. If the person in question is looking for "high-water mark", he or she is going to have to keep looking.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

you'd want the modifier 'high water mark' i would think, for it to work. and the meaning would be slightly different than watershed, at least to me, with watershed referring to the culture as a whole and watermark specifically to their career.

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:04 (twenty years ago)

(15 mins later, due to poxy fuleing)

A Nabisco moment, if I may: DAMN YOU BOTH, I WAS BEING THOROUGH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

eh crosspost poxy fule!

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Watermark is an album by Irish musician Enya, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music). Featuring her first major hit, "Orinoco Flow", Watermark was Enya's breakthrough album release, and is considered a seminal example of New Age music, although Enya herself does not consider her work to be of that genre.

So using "watermark" like that is an Enya reference, SEE?

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

So, what do you call the line on a house after floodwaters recede, for ex.? Waterline? High watermark? Not just watermark?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/ahps2/iwx/mroi3/mroi3hwmk.jpg

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

photographic evidence for those allergic to google or reading

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Enya reached her high-water mark with Watermark, a watershed release in the history of markedly watery music. The same year, Martin Skidmore's career skidded more or less to a halt with a collection of skittering skiffle entitled Skidmarks.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Bad brain-image there, nabs, but i appreciate the effort.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

so which album is the skidmark of shoegazing?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Err...all of them?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/26/46/9a59024128a0c3e716a07010._AA240_.L.jpg

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

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