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Marks   /mɑrks/   Listen
Marks

noun
1.
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964).  Synonyms: First Baron Marks of Broughton, Simon Marks.


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"  Antonym: ignore.
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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"Marks" Quotes from Famous Books



... he knew it not," Amuba said. "We knew not your customs, and my fellow-captives thought that possibly I might be put to death were it known that I was a son of their king, and therefore abstained from all outward marks of respect, which, indeed, would to one who was a slave ...
— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty
... speckless courtyard before the Governor's house at Dartmoor gaol. He wore the ugly livery of shame which marks the convict. His head was clipped short, and there was two days' growth of beard upon his haggard face. Standing with his hands behind him, he waited for the moment when he would be ordered to ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... gaolers who earned a lot of money by selling them. The aristocrats were always writing letters, which shows what do-nothings they were; for an honest man has a tongue to talk with, and doesn't need to make marks on paper to kill time. We went to the great prison two or three times; I stayed outside because I was afraid, but Mamseli Manon went in and talked with the gaolers. What more she did I don't know; I waited outside and thought of my confirmation suit, for the little ...
— The Story Of The Little Mamsell • Charlotte Niese
... the night before, and now came out from behind the Minnesota to fight the Merrimac. During four hours the battle raged with apparently no result; then the Merrimac withdrew and the Monitor took her place beside the Minnesota. [8] This battle marks the doom of wooden naval vessels; all the nations of the world were forced to build their ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... I took some pictures of the rocks, and Little Bear asked me what I wanted them for. I told him those marks were a history of an ancient tribe ...
— The Sheep Eaters • William Alonzo Allen


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