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(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
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(heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
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(heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
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(heading) Attention.
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To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
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to mark a box or bale of merchandise
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To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
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See where this pencil has marked the paper.
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To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
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To create an indication of (a location).
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She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.
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To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
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A bell marked the end of visiting hours.
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To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
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In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.
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To create (a mark) on a surface.
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To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
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The national holiday is marked by fireworks.
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(of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
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His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
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(of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
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(of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
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To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
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That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.
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To be typical or characteristic of (something).
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To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
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To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
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Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.
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To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
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To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
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To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
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The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.
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To record that (someone) has a particular status.
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to mark a student absent.
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To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
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to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game
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To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
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To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
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To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
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To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
Examples of mark in a Sentence
His mark is inconsequential.
I saw the mark with my own eyes.
This is an important night, and I want to mark it as such.
He made his mark; it draws us to you.
Pasteur's important researches mark an epoch in the technical aspect of fermentation.
Finding his mark, no doubt.
The views of Becher on the composition of substances mark little essential advance on those of the two preceding centuries, and the three elements or principles of salt, mercury and sulphur reappear as the vitrifiable, the mercurial and the combustible earths.
When all was ready, the sabers stuck in the snow to mark the barriers, and the pistols loaded, Nesvitski went up to Pierre.
Dean's eyes questioned and Mrs. Byrne clarified, The Mark Hopkins Hotel, in San Francisco—it was our little joke.
Its importance, however, is of comparatively modern growth and in the early history of Wurttemberg it was overshadowed by Cannstatt, the central situation of which on the Neckar seemed to mark it out as the natural capital of the country.
These different tasks, which philosophy had to fulfil, mark pretty accurately the aims of Lotze's writings, and the order in which they were published.
Like a dog pissing on a tree to mark his territory?
After being educated at Cracow, he made the grand tour with his brother Mark and returned to Poland in 1648.
The grant finally came into the possession of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and in 1746 a stone was erected at the source of the north branch of the Potomac to mark the western limit of the grant.
I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories.
Do you think it will leave a mark?
Jackson deflected her foot inches away from its mark.
With regard to the spelling of the name, Mark Napier states that among the family papers there exist a great many documents signed by John Napier.
As an orator Charles Lucas appears to have had little power, and he made no mark in the House of Commons.
It has been usually supposed that John Napier was buried in St Giles's church, Edinburgh, which was certainly the burialplace of some of the family, but Mark Napier (Memoirs, p. 426) quotes Professor William Wallace, who, writing in 1832, gives strong reasons for believing that he was buried in the old church of St Cuthbert.
Of this singular contract, which is signed, "Robert Logane of Restalrige" and "Jhone Neper, Fear of Merchiston," and is dated July 1594, a facsimile is given in Mark Napier's Memoirs.
Its site is now occupied by an open square, one stone remaining to mark the spot where Henry II.
On their right Scirocco outflanked the Venetians of Barbarigo, but the better build of the galleys of Saint Mark and the admirable discipline of their crews gave them the victory.
In this form the seventh day's rest was one of the few outward ordinances by which the Israelite could still show his fidelity to Yahweh and mark his separation from the heathen.
Unless the Sabbath was already an institution peculiarly Jewish, it could not have served as a mark of distinction from heathenism.
Linkoping early became a place of mark, and was already a bishop's see in 1082.
These run in wet seasons, but in every instance for a short distance only, and sooner or later they are lost in sand-hills, where their waters disappear and a line of stunted gum-trees (Eucalyptus rostrata) is all that is present to indicate that there may be even a soakage to mark the abandoned course.
Lord Palmerston offered him a baronetcy and a seat in the privy council, and the emperor of the French would gladly have conferred upon him some distinguished mark of his favour.
Coal lying under the sea below low-water mark belongs to the crown, and can only be worked upon payment of royalties, even when it is approached from shafts sunk upon land in private ownership. In the Forest of Dean, which is the property of the crown as a royal forest,there are certain curious rights held by a portion of the inhabitants known as the Free Miners of the Forest, who are entitled to mine for coal and iron ore, under leases, known as gales, granted by the principal agent or gaveller representing the crown, in tracts not otherwise occupied.
The non-importation sentiment preceding the War of Independence fostered home manufactures considerably, and the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts before the war of 1812, as well as that war itself (despite the subsequent glut of British goods) had a much greater effect; for they mark the introduction of the factory system, which by 1830 was firmly established in the textile industry and was rapidly transforming other industries.
This act of ordaining ministers, probably after the Genevan order - which they certainly used from May 1568 - and their excommunication of certain deserters from their " church " (so Grindal), clearly mark the fact that this body of some 200 persons had now deliberately taken up a position outside the national church, as being themselves a " church " in a truer sense than any parish church, inasmuch as they conformed to the primitive pattern.
In 1762 Prince Paul Esterhazy died and was succeeded by his brother Nicholas, surnamed the Magnificent, who increased Haydn's salary, showed him every mark of favour, and, on the death of Werner in 1766, appointed him Oberkapellmeister.
It is of course easy to see that Celsus had no apprehension of the spiritual needs even of his own day which it was the Christian purpose to satisfy, that he could not grasp anything of the new life enjoyed by the poor in spirit, and that he underrated the significance of the Church, regarding it simply as one of a number of warring sections (mostly Gnostic), and so seeing only a mark of weakness.
He went to the mines for a season, and there he began to write in the local newspapers, adopting the pen name of "Mark Twain," from a call used in taking soundings on the Mississippi steamboats.
John has a metaphysical prologue; Matthew and Luke have historical prologues; and Mark is without any prologue.
As recently as the early twentieth century, relatively few careers existed in which young men of drive and ambition could distinguish themselves and leave a mark on the world.
As a mark of the commander-in-chief's special favor he was sent with the news of this victory to the Austrian court, now no longer at Vienna (which was threatened by the French) but at Brunn.
Little things keep popping into mind—like Jeff won't be here for Randy's graduation, or he'll miss a neighbor's surprise party, or we'll never get to the Top of the Mark.
It's not the Top of the Mark, but I may not get another chance.
Maybe drink a manhattan at sunset on the Top of the Mark?
She wore the mark of Darian, the firstborn of the White God.
Sofi wore the White God's pendant, Bianca wore Dusty's mark, and Yully wore Jule's.
If Alex was a big question mark right now, Jonathan was an exclamation point.
Regardless, Clarissa's sugar coated barbs hit their mark all too often.
Keaton kicked at a stick and made a mark in the gravel with the toe of his shoe.
She slammed the book shut and carried it to the shed, where she searched for something to mark a trail.
True to his word, Jonny left Xander's at the fifty-eight minute mark.
Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed "abilities seldom to be matched"; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.
It is clear from Chicheley's position in the list, with eleven fellows and eight scholars, or probationerfellows, below him, that this entry does not mark his first appearance in the college, which had been going on since 1375 at least, and was chartered in 1379.
These years mark the zenith of Athenian greatness.