marking

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kɪŋ

Verb

marking

1. present participle of mark

Noun

marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)

1. The action of the verb to mark.
   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The Seasiders equalised soon after when Gary Taylor-Fletcher made the most of slack marking to slot home.

2. A mark.
3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
4. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

Derived terms

• marking blue
• marking error
• marking fire
• marking out
• submarking