mark : Idioms & Phrases

• a conspicuous or eminent man.

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• a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, as, for excellence or depravity; usually with an unfavorable suggestion.

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• noun a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
  accent.
  

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• noun a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity
  authentication; hallmark.
  

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• noun a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
  benchmark.
  

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• (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed.

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• adjective satellite having black marks
  

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• noun a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body)
  burn.
  

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• noun a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location
  call number; pressmark.
  

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• noun marks on a glaciated rock caused by the movement of a glacier
  
• noun a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece
  

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• noun a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
  tick; check.
  
  • as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name

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• verb mark with a date and place
  dateline; datemark.
  
  • dateline a newspaper article

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• noun formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
  Deutschmark; Deutsche Mark; mark.
  

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• noun a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
  diacritic.
  

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• noun a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
  ditto.
  

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• noun a symbol of commercialism or greed
  dollar; dollar sign.
  
  • he worships the almighty dollar
  • the dollar sign means little to him
• noun a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars
  dollar sign.
  

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• noun a defenseless victim
  sitting duck.
  

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• noun a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation
  exclamation point.
  

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• noun formerly the basic unit of money in Finland
  markka.
  

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• noun English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
  First Baron Marks of Broughton; Marks.
  

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• the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.

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• noun formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
  Deutschmark; Deutsche Mark; mark.
  

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• noun the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament
  Mark.
  

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Hall"-mark` noun

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1. The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.

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• noun an insignia worn to indicate years of service
  service stripe; hashmark.
  

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• noun a line marking the highest level reached
  

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• . (a) That line of the seashore to which the waters ordinarily reach at high water. (b) A mark showing the highest level reached by water in a river or other body of fresh water, as in time of freshet.

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• noun a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal
  hoof mark; hoofprint.
  

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• noun a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal
  hoof mark; hoofprint.
  

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• noun a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
  HTML; hypertext markup language.
  

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• noun a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation
  letters of marque; letter of marque.
  

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• noun English ballet dancer (born in 1910)
  Dame Alicia Markova; Markova.
  

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• that part of the shore to which the waters recede when the tide is the lowest. Bouvier.

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• noun an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything
  nadir.
  
• noun a line marking the lowest level reached
  

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• a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.

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• noun a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading
  lubber's line; lubber's point; lubber line.
  

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• noun Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
  Marcus Antonius; Antonius; Anthony; Mark Anthony; Antony.
  

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• noun Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
  Marcus Antonius; Antonius; Anthony; Mark Anthony; Antony.
  

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• noun United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)
  Mark Clark; Clark.
  

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• verb reduce the price of
  

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• noun United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)
  Hopkins.
  

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• noun the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature
  

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• verb set boundaries to and delimit
  mark off.
  
  • mark out the territory
• verb put a check mark on or near or next to
  check off; mark; tick off; tick; check.
  
  • Please check each name on the list
  • tick off the items
  • mark off the units

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• verb set boundaries to and delimit
  mark off.
  
  • mark out the territory

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• noun United States abstract painter (born in Russia) whose paintings are characterized by horizontal bands of color with indistinct boundaries (1903-1970)
  Rothko.
  

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• noun United States abstract painter influenced by oriental calligraphy (1890-1976)
  Tobey.
  

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• noun United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Clemens.
  

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• verb increase the price of
  

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• noun United States general who was Allied commander in Africa and Italy in World War II and was commander of the United Nations forces in Korea (1896-1984)
  Mark Clark; Clark.
  

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• adjective satellite (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
  dirty; foul.
  
  • foul (or dirty) copy

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• noun an indelible ink for marking clothes or linens etc.
  

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• noun the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
  M.M.; bpm; beats per minute.
  

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• (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.

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• noun English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)
  Roget.
  

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• a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

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• a special mark or emblematic figure stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the local mark for London is a lion.

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• noun waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded
  load line; Plimsoll line; Plimsoll.
  

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Plim"soll's mark`

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1. (Naut.) A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

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• noun the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
  punctuation.
  

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• noun a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
  interrogation point.
  

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• noun a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
  quotation mark; quote; inverted comma.
  

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• noun a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
  quotation mark; quote; inverted comma.
  

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• (Print.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.

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Re-mark" transitive verb

Etymology

Pref. re- + mark.

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1. To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.

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Rip"le-marked` adjective

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1. HAving ripple marks.

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• noun one of a series of small ridges produced in sand by water currents or by wind
  ripple mark.
  

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• noun one of a series of small ridges produced in sand by water currents or by wind
  ripple mark.
  

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• a system of parallel ridges on sand, produced by wind, by the current of a steam, or by the agitation of wind waves; also (Geol.), a system of parallel ridges on the surface of a sandstone stratum.

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• noun Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel
  Saint Mark; Mark.
  

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• noun epaulets that indicate rank
  shoulder board.
  

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• noun English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
  First Baron Marks of Broughton; Marks.
  

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• noun Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel
  Saint Mark; Mark.
  

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• noun a soft red birthmark
  strawberry; hemangioma simplex.
  

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• (Naut.), the mark indicating the end of the stray line.

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• noun a mark indicating the stress on a syllable
  

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• noun a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy)
  

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• . (a) The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. Longfellow. (b) The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tan terriers.

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• . (a) To sign, as a letter or other writing, by making a cross or other mark. (b) To make a distinct or lasting impression on the public mind, or on affairs; to gain distinction.

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• as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc.

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• . (a) To designate, as by a mark; to select; as, the ringleaders were marked out for punishment . (b) To obliterate or cancel with a mark; as, to mark out an item in an account.

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• (Mil.), to keep the time of a marching step by moving the legs alternately without advancing.

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Trade"-mark` noun

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1. A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

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• adjective satellite clearly indicated
  
  • a well-marked route

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• adjective satellite not on target
  wide.
  
  • the kick was wide
  • the arrow was wide of the mark
  • a claim that was wide of the truth

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• adjective satellite having yellow marks
  

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