mark
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɑːk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mɑɹk/
- (India) IPA(key): /mɑː(ɾ)k/
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /mæɹk/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
- Homophones: Mark, marque; mock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”).
Compare march.
Noun
[edit]mark (plural marks)
- (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
- (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier. [9th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence. [13th–18th c.]
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. [from 14th c.]
- 1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:
- I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.
- (archaic) A type of small region or principality. [from 18th c.]
- 1954, J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers:
- There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.
- (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples. [from 19th c.]
- (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. [from 8th c.]
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
- depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.
- A characteristic feature. [from 16th c.]
- A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.
- 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC:
- there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. [from 9th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip […].
- A sign or brand on a person. [from 10th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “III.iv.2.6”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be.
- A written character or sign. [from 10th c.]
- The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc. [from 11th c.]
- With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.
- 1876, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary:
- The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.
- (obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image. [14th–16th c.]
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral). [from 15th c.]
- I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total. [from 19th c.]
- What mark did you get in your history test?
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. [from 8th c.]
- (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile. [from 13th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.1:
- A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:
- To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement. [from 14th c.]
- I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark.
- (informal) The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person. [from 18th c.]
- 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 313:
- [Xi Jinping] asked for Trump's personal attention to the issue, probably figuring he had identified his mark and wasn't going to let him get away.
- 2022 December 11, Mike White, “Arrivederci”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 7, via HBO:
- Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli): How are you gonna make it in life if you're this big a mark?
Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco): I'm not a mark.
- (obsolete) The female genitals. [16th–18th c.]
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his […].
- (Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. [from 19th c.]
- (sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. [from 19th c.]
- A score for a sporting achievement. [from 20th c.]
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- 1871, Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report, volume 17, page 102:
- A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.
- (cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures. [from 20th c.]
- Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.
- (product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
- The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- to be within the mark
- to come up to the mark
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus:
- In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.
- (archaic) Preeminence; high position.
- patricians of mark
- a fellow of no mark
- (logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- (nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- A target for shooting at with a projectile. [from 13th c.]
- (heading) Attention.
- 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:
- But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark
- (archaic) Attention, notice. [from 15th c.]
- His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.) [from 16th c.]
- 1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:
- in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.
- (obsolete) Regard; respect.
- (professional wrestling slang) Condescending label of a wrestling fan who refuses to believe that pro wrestling is predetermined and/or choreographed.
Synonyms
[edit]- (a particular design or make): Mk (abbreviation), Mk. (abbreviation)
- (attention, notice): heed, observance; see also Thesaurus:attention
Derived terms
[edit]- accent mark
- beauty mark
- bench-mark/benchmark
- beside the mark
- birthmark
- black mark
- blue check mark
- bookmark
- byte order mark
- byte-order mark
- cardinal mark
- center mark
- certification mark
- chatter mark
- check mark
- chest mark
- chop mark
- claiming mark
- combining mark
- consequential mark
- cost mark
- crop mark
- cue mark
- diacritical mark
- diagonal mark
- early mark
- easy mark
- end mark
- exclamation mark
- factory mark
- fire mark
- Four Marks
- full marks
- funnel mark
- gas mark
- geta mark
- get off the mark
- ghost mark
- God bless the mark
- God save the mark
- graduation mark
- hall-mark
- hash mark
- hesitation mark
- high-water mark
- hit the mark
- hoof-mark
- interrogation mark
- inverted question mark
- irony mark
- iteration mark
- land mark
- lateral mark
- laundry-mark
- laundry mark
- leave a mark
- leave one's mark
- longing-mark
- longing mark
- long-vowel mark
- low-water mark
- make a mark
- make one's mark
- manga mark
- mark 1 eyeball
- mark and sweep
- Mark Cross
- mark-making
- mark of admiration
- mark of Cain
- mark of the beast
- marksman
- markstone
- mark to market
- mark-to-market
- mark-to-model
- mark to model
- mark tree
- mark-white
- mating mark
- miss the mark
- mother's mark
- no mark
- no-mark
- oblique mark
- off the mark
- O mark
- on one's mark
- on the mark
- on your mark
- on your marks
- order-mark
- order mark
- overstep the mark
- paragraph mark
- penalty mark
- pitch mark
- plate mark
- Plimsoll mark
- plus mark
- pointing mark
- pontil mark
- port-wine mark
- proof mark
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quick off the mark
- quotation mark
- quote mark
- reference mark
- Regulo mark
- remainder mark
- re-mark
- remark
- reporting mark
- ripple mark
- scent mark
- scuff mark
- sea mark
- service mark
- shilling mark
- shoulder mark
- skid mark
- skid-mark
- slash mark
- slash-mark
- slow off the mark
- sole mark
- spectacular mark
- speech mark
- strawberry mark
- stress mark
- stretch mark
- swan mark
- teeth mark
- tempo mark
- tick mark
- toe the mark
- tomahawk mark
- tone mark
- tooth mark
- touchmark / touch-mark
- track mark
- trade mark / trade-mark / trademark
- up to the mark
- vaccination mark
- walk the chalk mark
- wide of the mark
- witness mark
- word mark
- X mark
- year mark
Descendants
[edit]- → Bengali: মার্কা (marka)
- → Cantonese: 嘜/唛 (mak1, maak1)
- → Japanese: マーク (māku)
- → Korean: 마크 (makeu)
Translations
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Verb
[edit]mark (third-person singular simple present marks, present participle marking, simple past and past participle marked)
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- to mark a box or bale of merchandise
- to mark clothing with one's name
- 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 10:
- [I]f you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
- 1969, William Trevor, chapter 11, in Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel[1], Penguin, published 1973, page 177:
- Her son wrote badly, as if fearful of marking the page at all.
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- Synonyms: blemish, scar, scratch, stain
- See where this pencil has marked the paper.
- The floor was marked with wine and blood.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer[2], London: Bernard Lintott, Volume 3, Book 12, p. 229:
- Those Wheels returning ne’er shall mark the Plain;
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, “speech given on 12 May, 1846. Appendix.”, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 410:
- Advertisements are from time to time inserted, stating that slaves have escaped […] marked with the lash, branded with red-hot irons, the initials of their master’s name burned into their flesh;
- (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 10, in The Grapes of Wrath[3], Penguin, published 1976, page 104:
- The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.
- 1998, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents[4], New York: Seven Stories Press, page 279:
- What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
- To create an indication of (a location).
- She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.
- Some animals mark their territory by urinating.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.
- A bell marked the end of visiting hours.
- Synonyms: demonstrate, indicate, manifest, reveal, show, signal
- 1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath Her Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern[5], London: Jacob Tonson, page 479:
- And where the jolly Troop [of elves and fairies] had led the round
The Grass unbidden rose, and mark’d the Ground:
- 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 4, in Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 49:
- She gave her an answer which marked her contempt, and instantly left the room,
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 58, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 528:
- […] the cloth was laid for him […] and a plate laid thereon to mark that the table was retained,
- 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress[6], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part 1, Chapter 3, section 6, p. 61:
- […] the lazy circling vultures marked the Hill of Execution, which was littered with human bones and scavenged by hyaenas.
- 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous[7], New York: Penguin, Part 1, p. 16:
- Her forehead, lashed deep with lines, marked her fifty-six years.
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- Prices are marked on individual items.
- In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.
- Synonyms: display, show, write
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 219:
- […] it was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth Day I think, as well as my poor wooden Calendar would reckon; for I markt all upon the Post still;
- 1875, Benjamin Farjeon, At the Sign of the Silver Flagon[8], New York: Harper, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 84:
- “What does the clock mark now?”
“Eight minutes to seven.”
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- 1768, Laurence Sterne, “Maria”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy[9], volume 2, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, page 175:
- […] on opening it [the handkerchief], I saw an S mark’d in one of the corners.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities[10], London: Chapman and Hall, Book 3, Chapter 10, p. 220:
- I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it.
- 1988, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 6, in The Bean Trees[11], New York: HarperCollins, page 82:
- […] I was testing a stack of old whitewalls, dunking them in the water and marking a yellow chalk circle around each leak.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- The national holiday is marked by fireworks.
- Synonyms: commemorate, solemnize
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 276:
- It was only four thirty but Gerald was marking his guests’ arrival with a Pimm’s, […]
- (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
- 1815, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma[12], volume 2, London: John Murray, page 134:
- […] the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 5, in Kim[13], London: Macmillan, published 1902, page 115:
- The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.
- 1968, Bessie Head, chapter 1, in When Rain Clouds Gather[14], Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, published 2013, page 1:
- His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.
- 2016, Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time[15], Random House, Prologue:
- Enquiring about the movement of trains—even if you were a passenger on one—could mark you as a saboteur.
- (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny[16], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 113:
- The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]
- (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- [1611?], Homer, “The First Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 28:
- When a king, hath once markt for his hate, / A man inferior; […] / […] euermore, he rakes vp in his brest, / Brands of quicke anger;
- 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet[17], New York: Viking, page 230:
- […] I know now that humankind marks certain people for death.
- 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.
- The creek marks the boundary between the two farms.
- That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.
- Synonyms: represent, see
- 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 16, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 172:
- […] we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus.
- 1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 3, in Silent Spring[18], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 17:
- Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.
- 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex[19], New York: Farrar, Straux, Giroux, page 93:
- My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- Synonyms: characterize, typify
- 1818, Susan Ferrier, chapter 18, in Marriage[20], volume 3, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 264:
- […] he still retained that simple, unostentatious elegance, that marks the man of real fashion—
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 9, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/scarletletterrom01hawt/page/144 145/mode/1up page 145]:
- “Ah,” replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness which […] marked all his deportment,
- 1908, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale[21], New York: Modern Library, published 1911, Book 4, Chapter 1, p. 487:
- […] Cyril’s attitude to his mother was marked by a certain benevolent negligence
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
- 1823 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos VI.—VII.—and VIII., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto VIII, stanza 130, page 313:
- Indeed the smoke was such they scarce could mark
Their friends from foes,
- 1943, Maurice Bowra, chapter 1, in The Heritage of Symbolism[22], London: Macmillan, published 1954, page 2:
- Despite their obvious differences these poets had a common view of life which marks them from their predecessors […]
- 1983, Elizabeth George Speare, chapter 24, in The Sign of the Beaver,[23], New York: Dell, published 1984, page 127:
- Each day was so like the day before, and Christmas Day, when it came, would not have anything to mark it from all the others.
- (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 1]:
- More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before:
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:37:
- Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
- 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 5, in Ruth[24], volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 137:
- When they had passed out of the wood into the pasture-land beyond, Ruth once more turned to mark him.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall[25], New York: Henry Holt, Part 6, Chapter 2, p. 522:
- “When Wolsey came down, I said, mark him, he’s a sharp fellow. […] ”
- (dated) To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 161:
- Some of them [the Animals] coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their Form.
- 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 53, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 525:
- He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness, for he coloured directly and turned his head away.
- 1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499,[26]
- […] it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.
- 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King[27], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1965, Appendix A, pp. 347-348:
- Helm had a great horn, and soon it was marked that before he sallied forth he would blow a blast upon it that echoed in the Deep;
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- 1956, Mary Renault, chapter 22, in The Last of the Wine[28], New York: Pantheon, page 268:
- I marked my man, standing on the catwalk, and waited to throw [my javelin] till he started to climb inboard before they rammed.
- (Canada, UK) To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.
- 2024 May 15, 'Industry Insider', “Labour's plan for the railway”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 68:
- Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- to mark a student absent.
- (transitive, intransitive) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game
- 1869, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in The Innocents Abroad[29], Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 116:
- Dan was to mark while the doctor and I played [billiards].
- (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- (Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- (singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English mark, from Old English marc (“a denomination of weight (usu. half a pound), mark (money of account)”), from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Dutch mark (“mark”), Swedish mark (“a stamped coin”), Icelandic mörk (“a weight, usu. a pound, of silver or gold”). Doublet of markka.
Noun
[edit]mark (plural marks)
- (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:
- As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.
- (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 42:
- George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 167:
- He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.
- (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
Synonyms
[edit]- (Spanish unit of mass): marco, Spanish mark
- (Portuguese unit of mass): marco, Portuguese mark
Derived terms
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Etymology 3
[edit]From German Mark, from Middle High German marc, marche, marke, from Old High German marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark (whence etymology 2 via Old English marc). The identical plural is also from German.
Noun
[edit]mark (plural mark or marks)
- (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
- 1928 November, “Reviews”, in The Occult Review, volume XLVIII, number 5, London: Rider & Co., page 356:
- Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- pfennig (1/100 mark)
Etymology 4
[edit]An alternative form supposedly easier to pronounce while giving commands.
Verb
[edit]mark
- (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.
- Mark time, mark!
- Forward, mark!
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Danish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse mǫrk (“wilderness”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (“border land, marches”).
Noun
[edit]mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite marker)
Declension
[edit]See also
[edit]- eng (“meadow, uncultivated open space”)
Further reading
[edit]- “mark,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, marker”), cognate with German Mark f (currency), originally the same word as the previous one.
Noun
[edit]mark c (singular definite marken, plural indefinite mark)
- (historical) mark (unit of currency, in Denmark from the Middle Ages until 1875, in Germany and Finland until 2002)
- (historical) mark (unit of weight, especially of precious metals, equivalent to half a pound or 8 ounces)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mark,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
mark on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Mark (møntenhed) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch marke, from Old Dutch [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark f (plural marken)
- (chiefly historical) A march, a mark (border region).
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark (genitive margi, partitive marki)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mark (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | mark | margid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | margi | ||
genitive | markide | ||
partitive | marki | marke markisid | |
illative | marki margisse |
markidesse margesse | |
inessive | margis | markides marges | |
elative | margist | markidest margest | |
allative | margile | markidele margele | |
adessive | margil | markidel margel | |
ablative | margilt | markidelt margelt | |
translative | margiks | markideks margeks | |
terminative | margini | markideni | |
essive | margina | markidena | |
abessive | margita | markideta | |
comitative | margiga | markidega |
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *markō.
Noun
[edit]mark (genitive marga, partitive marka)
- mark (currency)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mark (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | mark | margad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | marga | ||
genitive | markade | ||
partitive | marka | marke markasid | |
illative | marka margasse |
markadesse margesse | |
inessive | margas | markades marges | |
elative | margast | markadest margest | |
allative | margale | markadele margele | |
adessive | margal | markadel margel | |
ablative | margalt | markadelt margelt | |
translative | margaks | markadeks margeks | |
terminative | margani | markadeni | |
essive | margana | markadena | |
abessive | margata | markadeta | |
comitative | margaga | markadega |
Faroese
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark f (genitive singular markar, plural markir)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mark | ||||
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f2 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mark | markin | markir | markirnar |
accusative | mark | markina | markir | markirnar |
dative | mark | markini | markum | markunum |
genitive | markar | markarinnar | marka | markanna |
Noun
[edit]mark n (genitive singular marks, plural mørk)
Declension
[edit]Declension of mark | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mark | markið | mark | markini |
accusative | mark | markið | mark | markini |
dative | marki | markinum | markum | markunum |
genitive | marks | marksins | marka | markanna |
Declension of mark | ||||
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n5 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | mark | markið | mørk | mørkini |
accusative | mark | markið | mørk | mørkini |
dative | marki | markinum | mørkum | mørkunum |
genitive | marks | marksins | marka | markanna |
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark m (plural marks)
- mark (currency)
Further reading
[edit]- “mark”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark n (genitive singular marks, nominative plural mörk)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)
- a worm (invertebrate)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark f or m (definite singular marka or marken, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mark” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark f (definite singular marka, indefinite plural marker, definite plural markene)
Derived terms
[edit]- beitemark
- berrmark
- blokkmark
- brakkmark
- bymark
- dyrkamark
- engmark
- fastmark
- Finnmark
- flatmark
- gjetslemark
- grasmark
- hagemark
- heimemark
- hopemark
- innmark
- jaktmark
- lyngmark
- markadrakt
- markadress
- markblom
- markebol
- markeskil
- markgreve
- markjordbær
- markkrypar
- markmus
- markstein
- misjonsmark
- paddemark
- rismark
- skrapmark
- skredmark
- slagmark
- slåttemark
- snaumark
- stubbmark
- Telemark
- umark
- upløgd mark
- utmark
- villmark
- viltmark
- våtmark
- øydemark
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark f (definite singular marka, indefinite plural merker or (currency) mark, definite plural merker)
- a unit of measure equivalent to 250 grams
- (numismatics, historical) a mark
- det kosta 50 mark ― it cost 50 marks
- (historical) a Norwegian unit used to measure the taxability of property
Usage notes
[edit]- The indefinite plural is usually merker, but in the sense of a unit of currency, mark might be used instead.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark m (definite singular marken, indefinite plural markar, definite plural markane)
- a worm (invertebrate)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]mark n (definite singular market, indefinite plural mark, definite plural marka)
- a mark
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō.
Noun
[edit]mark f
Declension
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Swedish: mark
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish mark, from Old Norse mǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Old Irish mruig, bruig (“border, march”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (singular)
- (plural)
Noun
[edit]mark c
- (uncountable) ground (surface of the Earth (or some other planet, etc.), or the area (immediately) beneath it)
- Synonym: (less general) backe
- Fåglar gillar att flyga, men ibland går de omkring på marken
- Birds like to fly, but sometimes they walk around on the ground
- Han lade sig platt på marken
- He laid down flat on the ground
- Hon kastade sig till marken
- She threw herself to the ground
- löv som faller till marken
- leaves falling to the ground
- Tjuren frustade och stampade i marken
- The bull snorted and stomped the ground
- Hon studsade bollen i marken
- She bounced the ball on the ground
- Helikoptern tog mark och fattade eld
- The helicopter hit the ground and caught fire
- gräva ett hål i marken med en spade
- dig a hole in the ground with a shovel
- Grävlingar gräver tunnlar i marken
- Badgers dig tunnels in the ground
- ha fast mark under fötterna
- be on terra firma ("have solid ground under one's feet")
- land, ground (area of ground)
- Bonden ägde mycket mark
- The farmer owned a lot of land
- Nisse äger marken på andra sidan sjön
- Nisse owns the land on the other side of the lake
- kommunens mark
- the land belonging to the municipality
- privat mark
- private land
- våtmarker
- wetlands
- betesmark
- pasture ("grazing land")
- minerad mark
- mined land
- Styrkorna har vunnit mark
- The forces have gained ground
- vara tillbaka på klassisk mark
- be back on classic ground
- soil (land belonging to someone, when idiomatic in English)
- vara på brittisk mark
- be on British soil
- territory
- Synonym: (except sometimes less idiomatic) territorium
- vara på okänd mark
- be in uncharted territory
- (often in the plural) land in its natural state, wild land
- ströva omkring i markerna
- roam the countryside (for example)
- Det är torrt i markerna
- There are dry conditions ("It is dry in the lands," focusing on wild areas like forests, etc.)
- vara ute i skog och mark
- be out in the wilderness ("forest and (wild) land," idiomatic)
- ground (distance, etc., similar to English – sometimes figuratively)
- Löparen tappade mark på sista varvet
- The runner lost ground on the last lap
- Partiet har vunnit mark
- The party has gained ground
- (historical) mark (currency)
- (historical) mark (unit of weight)
- (gambling) counter, marker
Declension
[edit]Declension of mark | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | mark | marken | marker | markerna |
Genitive | marks | markens | markers | markernas |
Derived terms
[edit]- ta mark (“touch down, hit the ground”)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- mark in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mark in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
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- en:Australian rules football
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