Word Finder - marking

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To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).

example

to mark a box or bale of merchandise

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To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).

example

See where this pencil has marked the paper.

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• blemish
• scar
• scratch
• stain

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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.

example

A bell marked the end of visiting hours.

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• demonstrate
• indicate
• manifest
• reveal
• show
• signal

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To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.

example

In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.

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• display
• show
• write

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To create (a mark) on a surface.

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• draw
• trace

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To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.

example

The national holiday is marked by fireworks.

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• commemorate
• solemnize

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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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• classify
• mark out

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(of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.

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• destine
• mark out
• target

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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.

example

That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.

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• represent
• see

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To be typical or characteristic of (something).

synonyms

• characterize
• typify

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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.

example

Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.

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• heed
• listen to
• look at
• observe
• watch

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To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.

synonyms

• hear
• note
• notice
• observe
• perceive
• see

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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.).

example

The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.

synonyms

• grade
• score

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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.

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The action of the verb to mark.

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A mark.

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The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.

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Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

Eden studied him then faced the dome marking the Grey God's palace.

I was just marking my territory, so to speak.

It was a community where I could see Betsy and me raising children and watching grandchildren while four distinct seasons rolled slowly by, marking the years one by one.

So you kept me quiet long enough for the marking to appear.

Her gaze went again to the pool of blood, then to the thick swath of red marking the trail of the dead man.

Someone else tripped the wards marking his territory of Southern California, someone he didn't expect to be alive.

A little south of Samarra are found remains of the Median Wall, which stretched south-west towards the Euphrates near Sahlawych, marking the edge of the Babylonian alluvial plain.

The letters in the Examiner may be taken as marking the close of his period of meditative search, and his return to hopeful aspiring activity.

A similar step was taken, in 922, in the case of Robert II., this too marking the increasing irritation felt at the weakness of the Carolingian kings.

In this the tongue of the relay is kept over to the spacing side by means of a current flowing in one direction, but on the depression of the signalling key the current is reversed, moving the relay tongue over to the marking side.

Apical cell, p. Wall marking limit between the plerome k, initial segment of root-cap. P and the pleriblem Pb.

Outermost layer of root-cap. c. Wall marking the inner limit of the outer cortex.

Many apparent puerilities, such as the counting of letters and the marking of the middle point of books, had a practical use in enabling copyists of MSS.

In these buildings, as in those of Aquitaine, the pointed arch is the surest sign of Saracenic influence; it must never be looked on as marking the approach of the Gothic of the North.

Here also are a tablet marking the location of the old fort (1621), which was also used as a place of worship, a tablet showing the site of the watch-tower built in 1643, and a marble obelisk erected in 1825 in memory of Governor William Bradford.

A mile south are the green mounds marking the site of the abbey of Saulseat, founded for Premonstratensian monks by Fergus, "king" of Galloway, early in the 12th century.

Eastwards of this the great Kashgar depression, which includes the Tarim desert, separates Russia from the vast sterile highlands of Tibet; and a continuous series of desert spaces of low elevation, marking the limits of a primeval inland sea from the Sarikol meridional watershed to the Khingan mountains on the western borders of Manchuria, divide her from the northern provinces of China.

The columned, round-headed windows are set in deeply between the pillars which carry the massive entablature, and this again is surmounted by a balustrade with obelisks at each angle and figures marking the line of each bay.

Setters owe their name to their having been trained originally to crouch when marking game, so as to admit of the net with which the quarry was taken being drawn over their heads.

All previous attempts had been far below the modern standard in these particulars, and Burton's history will always be memorable as marking an epoch.

Ignacio, the church marking the spot where Ignatius de Loyola received his wound in defending the place against Andre de Foix in 1521.

The first two, marking respectively the progress of the " Regeneration of the Native Literature " (1772-1807) and the " Revival of the Language " (1807-1830), were introductory to and preparatory for the third or " Academy," period, which began about 1830.

Arrived at the place of burial, the body was set in a square pit with spears marking out its sides and a roof of matting.

Borelli (1608-1679), whose treatise De motu animalium, published in 1680, is regarded as marking an epoch in physiology.

On the other hand, so far as concerned the ultimate fortunes of the Liberal party, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's premiership can only be regarded as a period of marking time.

There are two other processes of marking patterns on glass, but they possess no artistic value.

Kolitolu Yaila, near Ilghin; block inscribed in relief, disinterred from mounds apparently marking a camp or palace-enclosure.

To the north the reefs continue, marking the former extension of the land, for about 160 m., ending with the Huon Islands.

Berzelius hailed this discovery as marking the dawn of a new era in organic chemistry, and proposed for benzoyl the names "Proin" or "Orthrin" (from irpcoi and dpOpus).

This identification has been confirmed by the discovery of a series of boundary inscriptions, apparently marking the limit of the city's lands, which have been found cut in rock - outcrops partly surrounding the site.

The same law prevailing in all natures creation, in the plumage of birds, the painting of butterifies wings, the marking of shells, and in all the infinite variety and beauty of the floral kingdom, the lesson is constantly renewed to the observant eye.

Although the artistic product of the first period of Latin literature which has reached us in a complete shape is limited to the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the influence may most appropriately be taken as marking the end of one period and the beginning of another.

With this object he consecrated there his new temple of Apollo (28 B.C.), associated for long with the Julian house, and adopted by Augustus as his special patron at Actium, and transferred to its keeping the Sibylline books, thus marking the new headquarters of the Graeco-Roman religion.

It was useful as marking definitely the boundary of the Roman sway, and as assuring the Romans that no inroad could be made without intelligence being had of it beforehand, while the limes itself and the system of roads behind it enabled troops to be directed rapidly to any threatened point, and the fortified positions could be held against large numbers till reinforcements arrived.

Where the ocean touches the continents the margin is in places deeply indented by peninsulas and islands marking off portions of the water surface which from all antiquity have been known as " seas."

The Pacific Ocean consists mainly of one enormous basin bounded on the west by New Zealand and the Tonga, Marshall aid Marianne ridges, on the north by the festoons of islands marking off the North Pacific fringing seas, on the east by the coast of North America and the great Easter Island Rise and on the south by the Antarctic Shelf.

In the southern coalfields it is usually known by the miners' name of " Farewell rock," from its marking the lower limit of possible coal working.

This operation is called marking, because originally the edges FIG.

But her armaments were not then adequate to give effect to a strong-handed policy, so that for some years thereafter the government had both to impose heavy burdens on the people and to pursue a foreign policy of marking time, and endured the fiercest criticism on both counts, for the idea of war with Russia was as popular as the taxes necessary to that object were detested.

This was the only manifestation of the offensive spirit on Kuropatkin's part during the six months of marking time.

She herself worked with her own copy, inserting the additions, marking the alterations and translating all the quotations.

At the beginning of the 19th century, travellers reported extensive and important ruins as marking the ancient site.

Such were the Hindu nakshatras, a word originally signifying stars in general, but appropriated to designate certain small stellar groups marking the divisions of the lunar track.

The florists' varieties of tulips, which have sprung from Tulipa Gesneriana, are arranged in separate classes named bizarres, bybloemens and roses, according to their colour and marking.

And this belief was the fundamental principle that determined the marking off of the writings of the first, or apostolic, age from the rest.

The Mongolian peoples not only count their lunar months by these signs, but they reckon the successive days by them, rat-day, bull-day, tiger-day, &c., and also, by combining the twelve signs in rotation with the elements, they obtain a means of marking each year in the sixty-year cycle, as the woodrat year, the fire-tiger year, &c. This method is highly artificial, and the reappearance of its principle in the Mexican and Central American calendar is suggestive of importation from Asia.

Niebuhr's Roman History counts among epoch-making histories both as marking an era in the study of its special subject and for its momentous influence on the general conception of history.

Northward lies Clondalkin, with its round tower, marking the site of the important early see of Cluain Dolcain; Glasnevin, with famous botanical gardens; Finglas, with a ruined church of early foundation, and an Irish cross; and Clontarf, a favoured resort on the bay, with its modern castle and many residences of the wealthy classes in the vicinity.

On the other hand, this peculiar marking is rarely seen in domestic pigs in any part of the world, although it has been occasionally observed.

Inspectors are employed to give information regarding the packing of fruit, and also to see to the enforcement of the Fruit Marks Acts, which prohibit the marking of fruit with wrong brands and packing in any fraudulent manner.