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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.

Her cool fingers ran across Deidre's markings.

We marked the way out of the mine but then he showed us he'd picked up our markings.

The rabbits known as Dutch are small, and valued for the disposition of the colour and markings.

Some coarse kinds are opaque, resembling in this respect jasper, and some writers have sought to restrict the name "bloodstone" to green jasper, with red markings, thus making heliotrope a translucent and bloodstone an opaque stone, but, though convenient, such a distinction is not generally recognized.

Although described in 1889 as a local variety of the Siberian species, the Manchurian roe really appears, both as regards stature, hairiness and the black and white markings on the muzzle, much more nearly related to the European animal.

It has a long tail and shaggy fur; the general colour of the latter being dark grey, with conspicuous black and white markings on the face.

Bartlett, that every ruff assumes tufts and frill exactly the same in colour and markings as those he wore in the preceding season; and thus, polymorphic as is the male as a species, as an individual he is unchangeable.

They are mostly of a sandy colour, with dark and light markings on the face, and often a dark band on the flanks.

The colour, too, of these antelopes tends in many cases to purple, with white markings.

The Romans cast their larger copper coins, in clay moulds carrying distinctive markings, not because they knew nothing of striking, but because it was not suitable for such large masses of metal.

Serpentine marble with seamed markings has been found in Adams and Stevens counties.

Most of the varieties, however, of which no fewer than twenty-seven were recognized by French breeders so early as the beginning of the 18th century, differ merely in the colour and the markings of the plumage.

Perfectly black leopards, which in certain lights show the characteristic markings on the fur, are not uncommon, and are examples of melanism, occurring as individual variations, sometimes in one cub out of a litter of which the rest are normally coloured, and therefore not indicating a distinct race, much less a species.

The upper plumage generally is dark green, but the mantle and rump are crimson, as are a broad abdominal belt, the flanks and many crescentic markings on the otherwise yellow lower parts.

The colour and markings of a flower often serve to guide the insects to the honey, in the obtaining of which they are compelled either to remove or to deposit pollen.

The seeds of the different cultivated varieties, of which there are a great number, differ much in size and in external markings; but average seeds are of an oval laterally compressed form, with their longest diameter about four lines.

The markings are an irregular ring formation with a spot in the centre.

The colours are pale orange and white with very dark markings, a strong contrast making a fine effect.

The fur upon the flanks is longer and white with very pronounced markings of dark spots, and this part of the skin is generally worked separately from the rest and is very effective for gown trimmings.

Similar, but somewhat different markings are produced by the combustion of diamond in oxygen, unaccompanied by any rounding of the edges.

It is a black pig like the Berkshire, but has short lop-ears, a more pointed, straight nose, a more compact body, and more white markings.

The exospore often bears spines or warts, or is variously sculptured, and the character of the markings is often of value for the distinction of genera or higher groups.

When it is cut along these rays beautiful markings are revealed, called silver grain.

Certain markings on slates and sandstones, such as the "fucoids" of Scandinavia and Scotland, the Phycoides of the Fichtelgebirge, Eophyton and other seaweed-like impressions, may indeed be the casts of fucoid plants; but it is by no means sure that many of them are not mere inorganic imitative markings or the tracks or casts of worms. Oldhamia, a delicate branching body, abundant in the Cambrian of the south-east of Ireland, is probably a calcareous alga, but its precise nature has not been satisfactorily determined.

The markings vary much in different individuals, and even on the two sides of the same individual.

White spots are sometimes present below the eyes, and there may be white markings on the legs and back; and the absence or presence of these white markings may be indicative of distinct races.

Nearly all the tribes have tattoo markings on the face and body; to this rule the Ba-Kongo tribes are an exception.

Stripes are frequently seen in high-caste Arab horses, and cross-bred colts out of Arab mares sometimes present far more distinct bars across the legs and other zebra-like markings than characterized the subsequent offspring of Lord Morton's seven-eighths Arabian mare.

Of the subsequent foals, three out of Highland mares presented indistinct markings at birth.

But as equally distinct markings occurred on two pure-bred Highland foals out of mares which had never seen a zebra, it was impossible to ascribe the stripes on the foals born after zebra hybrids to infection of their respective dams. Further, the subsequent foals afforded no evidence of infection, either in the mane, tail, hoofs or disposition.

Moreover, while the faint markings on the foals born after hybrids completely disappeared with the foals' coat, the stripes on the three pure-bred colts persisted.

The result was three pups, all in make and markings pure terriers, and one of the three was regarded as an unusually good specimen of the breed.

It is most probable that, when allowance has been made for the obliteration of glacial markings, and the region has been better explored, it will appear that the glaciation of Turkestan was on a scale at least as vast as that of the Himalayas.

On the tail the markings become bolder, brick red with black and yellow.

The radial or fan-shaped markings known as Oldhamia were first detected in this series, but are now known from Cambrian beds in otter countries; in default of other satisfactory fossils, the series of Bray and Howth has long been held to be Cambrian.

These last have coarse bristly hair of a purplish-brown colour with light markings, very large head-tufts, almost concealing the minute antlers, of which the pedicles do not extend as ribs down the face.

The markings, too, are alternately black and white, in place of brown and creamy, with intermediate " shadow stripes," as in the southern races.

White markings on one or more of the legs, with a white star or stripe on the face, are characteristic. The long hair on the legs is not so abundant as in the Shires, and it is finer in texture.

The attractiveness of the petal is often due wholly or in part to surface markings; thus the cuticle of the petal of a pelargonium, when viewed with a z or 4-in.

In the case of incrustation the whole substance of the fossilized specimen - e.g., a stem of Sigillaria - may be replaced by mineral matter, such as sandstone or shale, giving a cast of the whole, on the outer surface of which the external markings, such as the bases of leaves and the scars left by their fall, are visible in their natural form.

In such carbonaceous impression not only are the form and markings, such as venation, perfectly preserved, but something of the actual structure may remain.

On the other hand, the myth often exists to explain the cause of the markings of certain actual species of birds.

Whoever did that—changed our markings out of the mine—do you think they were trying to kill us?

Yeah. You should be able to see the Immortal markings, too.

Little does she know my markings are to disguise my journaled thoughts from the prying eyes of her and others.

The playgrounds and field at the school are well used, with permanent basketball backboards, and markings for netball, basketball and football.

It has military markings on the dial to indicate this including the broad arrow which denotes HM Government property.

Virus diseases also affect camellias, producing light markings on the leaves and white spots and stripes on the flowers.

The dial markings indicate that the watch is an officially certified Swiss chronometer.

The dial is luminous and has large markings with minimal dial clutter for maximum legibility.