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Mark   /mɑrk/   Listen
Mark

noun
1.
A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).  Synonyms: grade, score.  "Grade A milk" , "What was your score on your homework?"
2.
A distinguishing symbol.  Synonyms: marker, marking.
3.
A reference point to shoot at.  Synonym: target.
4.
A visible indication made on a surface.  Synonym: print.  "Paw prints were everywhere"
5.
The impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember.  "He left an indelible mark on the American theater"
6.
A symbol of disgrace or infamy.  Synonyms: brand, stain, stigma.
7.
Formerly the basic unit of money in Germany.  Synonyms: Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, German mark.
8.
Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel.  Synonyms: Saint Mark, St. Mark.
9.
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.  Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker.
10.
A written or printed symbol (as for punctuation).
11.
A perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened).  Synonym: sign.  "They welcomed the signs of spring"
12.
The shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament.  Synonym: Gospel According to Mark.
13.
An indication of damage.  Synonyms: scar, scrape, scratch.
14.
A marking that consists of lines that cross each other.  Synonyms: crisscross, cross.
15.
Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal.  Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run.  "Scored a bull's eye" , "Hit the mark" , "The president's speech was a home run"
verb
(past & past part. marked; pres. part. marking)
1.
Attach a tag or label to.  Synonyms: label, tag.
2.
Designate as if by a mark.
3.
Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.  Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish.
4.
Mark by some ceremony or observation.  Synonym: commemorate.
5.
Make or leave a mark on.  "Ash marked the believers' foreheads"
6.
To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.  Synonyms: brand, denounce, stigmatise, stigmatize.  "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
7.
Notice or perceive.  Synonyms: note, notice.  "Mark my words"
8.
Mark with a scar.  Synonyms: pit, pock, scar.
9.
Make small marks into the surface of.  Synonyms: nock, score.
10.
Establish as the highest level or best performance.  Synonym: set.
11.
Make underscoring marks.  Synonym: score.
12.
Remove from a list.  Synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike off, strike out.
13.
Put a check mark on or near or next to.  Synonyms: check, check off, mark off, tick, tick off.  "Tick off the items" , "Mark off the units"
14.
Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.  Synonyms: grade, score.  "Score the SAT essays" , "Mark homework"
15.
Insert punctuation marks into.  Synonym: punctuate.



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"Mark" Quotes from Famous Books



... to mark the exact location of the place, so that he could find it again; and as he returned slowly along the paths through the rocky fissures he took mental note of every curve and communication, and believed he could now find his way to ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne
... better than might have been expected, for taking advantage of the fact that his head was on a level with the little girl's face, as a mark of homage he licked her little nose and ...
— In Desert and Wilderness • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... Whitsunday] was a footnote. 286: (R.V.) to (R.V.). for consistency with other references. 286: "please to understand" to "do" 287: "we shoud be entitled" to "should" 391: added — and changed Ephes. to Eph. for consistency with other headings 391: added colon after "Mark its simplicity" (for grammar, and there was a large space in ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren
... of it," said Trefusis. "There never was such a mark as that on a road. It may be a very bad attempt at a briar, but briars don't straggle into the middle of roads frequented as that one seems to be—judging by those overdone ruts." He put the etching away, showing no disposition to look further into the portfolio, ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... the old schists, which form the bottom of the original lacustrine basin: the traps, in bursting through, had broken them off and preserved them. There are, besides, ranges of hills in the central parts, composed of clay and sandstone schists, with the ripple mark distinct, in which no fossils appear; but as they are usually tilted away from the masses of horizontal trap, it is probable that they too were a portion of the original bottom, and fossils may yet be found ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone


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