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Noun marking has 4 senses
- marker, marking, mark - a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"
--1 is a kind of symbol
--1 has particulars:
- marking - a pattern of marks
--2 is a kind of design, pattern, figure
--2 has particulars:
- marking, grading, scoring - evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"
--3 is a kind of evaluation, rating
- marking - the act of making a visible mark on a surface
--4 is a kind of decoration
--4 has particulars: lineation; mottling; striping
Verb mark has 15 senses
- tag, label, mark - attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles"
--1 is one way to attach
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
- mark - designate as if by a mark; "This sign marks the border"; "He indicated where the border ended"
--2 is one way to bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- distinguish, mark, differentiate - be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him form his peers"
--3 is one way to qualify, characterize, characterise
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- commemorate, mark - mark by some ceremony or observation; "We marked the anniversary of his death"
--4 is one way to observe, celebrate, keep
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- mark - make or leave a mark on; "mark the trail so that we can find our way back"
--5 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark - 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"
--6 is one way to label
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- notice, mark, note - notice or perceive; "She noted that someone was following her"; "mark my words"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- scar, mark, pock, pit - mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
--8 is one way to deface, disfigure, blemish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- score, nock, mark - make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"
--9 is one way to notch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- set, mark - establish as the highest level or best performance; "set a record"
--10 is one way to lay down, establish, make
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- score, mark - make underscoring marks
--11 is one way to record, enter, put down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off, mark - remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
--12 is one way to take away, take out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick - put a check mark on or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"
--13 is one way to verify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- grade, score, mark - assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
--14 is one way to measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- punctuate, mark - insert punctuation marks into
--15 is one way to add
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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