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say it: mahrk
mark is a noun and verb meaning "a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)". It carries 30 recorded senses.
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
“she made good marks in algebra”
“grade A milk”
“what was your score on your homework?”
a reference point to shoot at
“his arrow hit the mark”
a visible indication made on a surface
“some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks”
“paw prints were everywhere”
the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
“it was in London that he made his mark”
“he left an indelible mark on the American theater”
a symbol of disgrace or infamy
“And the Lord set a mark upon Cain”
formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel
a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
“his answer was just a punctuation mark”
the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament
a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
“the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer”
“scored a bull's eye”
“hit the mark”
“the president's speech was a home run”
trope
be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
“His modesty distinguishes him from his peers”
celebrate by some ceremony or observation
“The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade”
make or leave a mark on
“the scouts marked the trail”
“ash marked the believers' foreheads”
to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
“He denounced the government action”
“She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mark come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.