verb
- Attach a tag or label to.
- usage: "label these bottles"
- Designate as if by a mark.
- usage: "This sign marks the border"
- synonyms: mark
- Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.
- usage: "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"
- synonyms: distinguish, mark, differentiate
- Mark by some ceremony or observation.
- usage: "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade"
- synonyms: commemorate, mark
- Make or leave a mark on.
- usage: "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"
- synonyms: mark
- To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
- usage: "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
- synonyms: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark
- Notice or perceive.
- usage: "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words"
- Mark with a scar.
- usage: "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
- Make small marks into the surface of.
- usage: "score the clay before firing it"
- Establish as the highest level or best performance.
- usage: "set a record"
- Make underscoring marks.
- Remove from a list.
- usage: "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
- synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off, mark
- Put a check mark on or near or next to.
- usage: "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units"
- Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.
- usage: "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
- Insert punctuation marks into.
adjective
- Strongly marked; easily noticeable.
- usage: "walked with a marked limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon"
- synonyms: pronounced
- Singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate.
- usage: "a marked man"
- Having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination.
- usage: "played with marked cards"; "a scar-marked face"; "well-marked roads"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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