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Mark   /mɑrk/   Listen
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"
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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"Mark" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the one that was wounded at the same time, when it did not appear to me that any such accidents had happened. I next (by means of Tupia) explain'd to the old Man and several others that we were Come to set up a Mark upon the Island, in order to shew to any ship that might put into this place that we had been here before. They not only gave their free Consent to set it up, but promised never to pull it down. I then gave every one a present ...
— Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World • James Cook
... acquired it earlier, that mankind must find a way of overcoming war. It is untrue that eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. A time will and must arrive which will no longer know war, and this time will mark a gigantic progress in comparison with our own. Just as human morality has overcome the war of all against all; just as the individual had to accustom himself to seek redress of his grievances at the hands of the State after blood feuds and duels had been banished by civil peace, so in their development ...
— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter
... Bohemian, showing a great deal of impetuosity;—which, however, they lose in their productions in proportion as they become polished and finished writers. Bohemianism, in German music, has more the character of provincialism than of a national mark. ...
— The Masters and their Music - A series of illustrative programs with biographical, - esthetical, and critical annotations • W. S. B. Mathews
... prime, Whom sorrow never touch'd, nor age impair'd; And still another, wan misfortune's child, Nurtur'd in bitterness, who never took His meat with pleasure. Side by side they rest On Death's oblivious pillow. Do ye say Their varied lot below, mark'd their ...
— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney
... name, because I have found no reason to say that the possessors of the old quartos were not sufficiently communicative.' Ib p. 501. Mme. D'Arblay describes how 'Garrick, giving a thundering stamp on some mark on the carpet that struck his eye—not with passion or displeasure, but merely as if from singularity—took off Dr. Johnson's voice in a short dialogue with himself that had passed the preceding week. "David! Will you lend me your ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill


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