mark
verb
- “Cross the name of the dead person off the list”
insert punctuation marks into
noun
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student''s performance)
- “she made good marks in algebra”
- “grade A milk”
- “what was your score on your homework?”
a visible indication made on a surface
- “some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks”
- “paw prints were everywhere”
the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
- “it was in London that he made his mark”
- “he left an indelible mark on the American theater”
a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- “he showed signs of strain”
- “they welcomed the signs of spring”
an indication of damage
Origin
From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Compare march. Cognates * Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”) * German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”) * Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”) * Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”) * Latin margō (“edge, margin”) * Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”) * Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).
Phrases
- accent mark
- beauty mark
- beside the mark
- black mark
- blue check mark
- byte order mark
- byte-order mark
- cardinal mark
- convertible mark
- mark as
- mark down
- mark down as
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