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mark

UK/mɑː(ɹ)k/ US/maːk/ very common informal uk

verb

1.

attach a tag or label to

  • “label these bottles”
Synonyms
2.

designate as if by a mark

  • “This sign marks the border”
  • “He indicated where the border ended”
3.

be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense

  • “His modesty distinguishes him form his peers”
4.

mark by some ceremony or observation

  • “We marked the anniversary of his death”
Synonyms
5.

make or leave a mark on

  • “mark the trail so that we can find our way back”
6.

to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

  • “He denounced the government action”
  • “She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock”
7.

notice or perceive

  • “She noted that someone was following her”
  • “mark my words”
Synonyms
Antonyms
8.

mark with a scar

  • “The skin disease scarred his face permanently”
Synonyms
9.

make small marks into the surface of

  • “score the clay before firing it”
Synonyms
10.

establish as the highest level or best performance

  • “set a record”
Synonyms
11.

make underscoring marks

Synonyms
12.

remove from a list

  • “Cross the name of the dead person off the list”
13.

put a check mark on or next to

  • “Please check each name on the list”
  • “tick off the items”
14.

assign a grade or rank to, according to one''s evaluation

  • “grade tests”
  • “score the SAT essays”
  • “mark homework”
Synonyms
15.

noun

1.

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?”
Synonyms
2.

a distinguishing symbol

  • “the owner”
3.

a reference point to shoot at

  • “his arrow hit the mark”
Synonyms
4.

a visible indication made on a surface

  • “some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks”
  • “paw prints were everywhere”
Synonyms
5.

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”
6.

a symbol of disgrace or infamy

  • “And the Lord set a mark upon Cain” -Genesis
8.
10.

a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)

  • “his answer was just a punctuation mark”
11.

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”
Synonyms
12.
13.
14.

marking consisting of crossing lines

15.

something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal

  • “the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer”
  • “scored a bull”
  • “;”
  • “;”
  • “s speech was a home run”

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

Related words

Entails

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