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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.
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A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
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An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
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Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
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A coin worth one mark.
Examples of marks in a Sentence
My marks are great and so are Jen's.
She covered the bite marks self- consciously.
She checked her hair twice to make sure no part of her marks were obscured.
In certain scholarship examinations held formerly by the London County Council a percentage was added to the marks of each candidate proportionate to the number of months by which his age fell short of the maximum age for entry.
At Cambridge, numerical marks are used.
Are you one of those serial killers who marks their victims?
Farther south-east, a line of sand dunes, covering the ruins of ancient villas, marks the coastline of the Roman period.
The present Piazza Giulio Cesare marks the site of the ancient forum.
It was a long time before decimal arithmetic came into general use, and all through the 17th century exponential marks were in common use.
The pultrelands and the office were sold by John Napier in 1610 for 1700 marks.
The advantage of numerical marks is that they are more easily manipulated than symbols; the disadvantage, that they produce the false impression that merit can be estimated with mathematical accuracy.
The difficulties of comparison of marks are further complicated when students take different subjects and it is necessary to compare their merit by means of marks allotted by different examiners and added together.
In the competitive examination for the Indian civil service, places are allotted on the aggregate of marks obtained in a number of subjects selected by the candidate from a list of thirty-two.
Again, it is generally recognized to be undesirable to give marks for a smattering.
You will send me home, and you'll remove Toby, Gabriel, and every other interference you placed in my life, down to the scuff marks in the hallway, which I know
The only way he's going to get rid of me is with a foot on my backside pushing me out the door – and then I'll leave fingernail marks in the door jamb.
George himself as a boy of fourteen took part in the great battle of Lipan, which marks the downfall of the more advanced Taborites.
In December 1189, by the treaty of Canterbury, Richard gave up all claim to suzerainty over Scotland in return for 10,000 marks, the treaty of Falaise being thus definitely annulled.
A circle of stones in the Iron Market of Linkoping marks the spot where Sigismund's adherents were beheaded in 1600.
This marks the beginning of the occupation of the interior of the continent.
The chain of the Frisian Islands marks the outer fringe of the former continental coast-line, and is separated from the mainland by shallows, known as Wadden or Watten, answering to the maria vadosa of the Romans.
It marks the first meridian of longitude in Hindu geography.
The Hari-Rud marks the only important break existing in the continuity of the great central water-parting of Asia.
This is checked by the mile marks, the known position of the joints, &c., as they pass.
A third curve, from the south-easternmost promontory of the Peloponnese through Cerigo, Crete, Carpathos and Rhodes, marks off the outer deeps of the open Mediterranean from the shallow seas of the archipelago, but the Cretan Sea, in which depths occur over 1000 fathoms, intervenes, north of the line, between it and the Aegean proper.
The podest marks an essentially transitional state in civic government, and his intervention paved the way for despotism.
In declaring the supreme doctrines of Christianity to be mysteries above reason, he marks off a lower region where reason is to reign; the study of that lower region may well be called, as later centuries have called it, Natural Theology; and as such it presents strong intuitionalist affinities.
Yellow and red ochre mixed with grease are coarsely smeared over the bodies, grey in coarse patterns and white in fine patterns resembling tattoo marks.
Just as Kant thus sharply marks off the regions of the inorganic and the organic, so he sets man in strong opposition to the lower animals.
This legislation marks another step forward.
A letter like this, clear cut in its thought, teeming with ideas emanating from an unique religious experience, and admirably adjusted to known situations, bears on the face of it the marks of genuineness even without recourse to the unusually excellent external attestation.
He paid especial attention to orthography, and sought to differentiate the meanings of cases of like ending by distinctive marks (the apex to indicate a long vowel is attributed to him).
One somewhat similar phenomenon, differing in a few respects, marks the relation of the plant to the attraction of gravity.
A great number of birds' bones have been found in caves, and among them some bearing marks of human workmanship. In France we have a large and extinct crane, Grus primigenia, but more interesting are the numerous relics of two species, the concomitants even now of the reindeer, which were abundant in that country at the period when this beast flourished there,and have followed it in its northward retreat.
The pursuing Egyptians were drowned, and the miraculous preservation of the chosen people at the critical moment marks the first stage in the national history?
At all stages of religious development, however, and more especially in the case of the more primitive types of cult, prayer as thus understood occurs together with, and shades off into, other varieties of observance that bear obvious marks of belonging to the same family.
The principal reptiles are a lizard, a tortoise, the vivora de la crux (a dangerous viper, so called from marks like a cross on its head) and the rattlesnake in Maldonado and the stony lands of Minas.
The story that Earl Godwine himself was of churlish birth, whether true or false, marks the possibility of such a rise.
In the former case (a) individual animals might be distinguished by certain marks, or (b) the whole species.
This narrative has all the marks of primitive simplicity.
It marks the highest point to which the Hebrew race attained in its progress from henotheism to monotheism.
Thus the exile period marks the parting of the ways in the development of Hebrew religion.
The value was indicated by little points or globules, or other marks.
At the Restoration he received many marks of favour from the king, including grants of land and lucrative monopolies.
Another storied stone is called the Witches' Stone, because it marks the place near Forres where Macbeth is said to have encountered the weird sisters.
In 561 B.C. the captive Judaean king, Jehoiachin, had received special marks of favour from Nebuchadrezzar's son Amilmarduk.
With his priests and Levites, and with the chiefs and nobles of the Jewish families, the high priest directs this small state, and his death marks an epoch as truly as did that of the monarchs in the past.
The Whitehall conference of 1655 marks a change in the status of the Jews in England itself, for though no definite results emerged it was clearly defined by the judges that there was no legal obstacle to the return of the Jews.
In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.
The relics of the two Marks, who are said to have been buried at Saintes-Maries, are bestowed in the upper storey of the apse of the fortress-church, a remarkable building of the 12th century with crenelated and machicolated walls.