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1. A distinguishing symbol
   "the owner's marking was on all the sheep";
   - marker, mark
    
2. A pattern of marks
    
3. Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
   "what he disliked about teaching was all the marking he had to do";
   - grading, scoring
    
4. The act of making a visible mark on a surface

1. Attach a tag or label to
   "mark these bottles";
   - tag, label
    
2. Designate as if by a mark
   "This sign marks the border"
    
3. Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
   "His modesty marks him from his peers";
   - distinguish, differentiate
    
4. Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
   "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade";
   - commemorate
    
5. Make or leave a mark on
   "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"
    
6. Accuse or condemn openly or formally; classify or describe as disgraceful
   "She was marked by society because she had a child out of wedlock";
   - stigmatize, stigmatise [Brit], brand, denounce, denunciate
    
7. Detect and remember; perceive with the mind
   "mark my words";
   - notice, note
    
8. Mark with a scar
   "The skin disease marked his face permanently";
   - scar, pock, pit
    
9. Make small marks into the surface of
   "mark the clay before firing it";
   - score, nock
    
10. Establish as the highest level or best performance
    "mark a record";
    - set
     
11. Make underscoring marks
    - score
     
12. Remove from a list
    - cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off
     
13. Put a check mark on, near or next to
    "mark off the units";
    - check, check off, mark off, tick off [Brit, Cdn, informal], tick [Brit]
     
14. Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
    "mark homework";
    - grade, score
     
15. Insert punctuation marks into
    - punctuate

Derived forms: markings

See also: mark off

Type of: add, alter, appraise, assess, attach, bespeak, betoken [archaic], blemish, celebrate, change, characterise [Brit], characterize, decoration, deface, design, disfigure, enter, establish, evaluate, evaluation, figure, fish out [informal], indicate, keep, label, lay down, make, measure, modify, notch, observe, pattern, point, put down, qualify, rating, record, scope, signal, symbol, take away, take out, valuate, value, verify

Antonym: ignore

Encyclopedia: Marking