mark

Substantiv

1. 1

   veraltetBoundary, land within a boundary. A boundary; a border or frontier.

2. 2

   veraltetBoundary, land within a boundary. A boundary-post or fence.

3. 3

   Boundary, land within a boundary. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.

   I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.

4. 4

   Boundary, land within a boundary. The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.

5. 5

   altertümlichBoundary, land within a boundary. A type of small region or principality.

   There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.

6. 6

   historischBoundary, land within a boundary. A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.

7. 7

   Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.

   depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.

8. 8

   Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A characteristic feature.

   A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.

   there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.

9. 9

   Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.

   Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip[…].

10. 10

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A sign or brand on a person.

    Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be.

11. 11

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A written character or sign.

    The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.

12. 12

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.

    With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.

    But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?

    The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.

13. 13

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.

    In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.

14. 14

    altertümlichCharacteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Preeminence; high position.

    patricians of mark

    a fellow of no mark

15. 15

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.

16. 16

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.

    I filled the bottle up to the 500 ml mark.

17. 17

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.

    Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.

18. 18

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called “deeps”.)

19. 19

    veraltetCharacteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Resemblance, likeness, image.

20. 20

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).

    I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.

21. 21

    Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. The model number of a device; a device model.

    The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.

22. 22

    Score, grade, or related judgement. A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.

    What mark did you get in your history test?

23. 23

    Score, grade, or related judgement. A score for a sporting achievement.

24. 24

    Score, grade, or related judgement. An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.

    A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.

25. 25

    Target or indicator. A target for shooting at with a projectile.

    A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.

    To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.

26. 26

    umgangssprachlichTarget or indicator. The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game; a gullible person.

    Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location.

    [Xi Jinping] asked for Trump's personal attention to the issue, probably figuring he had identified his mark and wasn't going to let him get away.

    Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli): How are you gonna make it in life if you're this big a mark? Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco): I'm not a mark.

27. 27

    Target or indicator. A professional wrestling fan who believes matches are legitimate contests rather than scripted or predetermined.

28. 28

    Attention.

    But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark

29. 29

    altertümlichAttention. Attention, notice.

    His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.

30. 30

    Attention. Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)

    in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.

31. 31

    veraltetAttention. Regard; respect.

32. 32

    veraltetThe female genitals.

    A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.

    her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his[…].

33. 33

    A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.

34. 34

    Limit or standard of action or fact.

    to be within the mark

    to come up to the mark

Verb

1. 1

   To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).

   to mark a box or bale of merchandise

   to mark clothing with one's name

   [I]f you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.

   Her son wrote badly, as if fearful of marking the page at all.

2. 2

   To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).

   See where this pencil has marked the paper.

   The floor was marked with wine and blood.

   Those Wheels returning ne’er shall mark the Plain;

   Advertisements are from time to time inserted, stating that slaves have escaped […] marked with the lash, branded with red-hot irons, the initials of their master’s name burned into their flesh;

3. 3

   übertragenTo have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).

   The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him.

   What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?

   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].

4. 4

   To create an indication of (a location).

   She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.

   Some animals mark their territory by urinating.

5. 5

   To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.

   This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.

   A bell marked the end of visiting hours.

   And where the jolly Troop [of elves and fairies] had led the round The Grass unbidden rose, and mark’d the Ground:

   She gave her an answer which marked her contempt, and instantly left the room,

6. 6

   To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.

   Prices are marked on individual items.

   In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.

   […] it was in the middle of May, on the sixteenth Day I think, as well as my poor wooden Calendar would reckon; for I markt all upon the Post still;

   “What does the clock mark now?” “Eight minutes to seven.”

7. 7

   To create (a mark) on a surface.

   […] on opening it [the handkerchief], I saw an S mark’d in one of the corners.

   I mark this cross of blood upon you, as a sign that I do it.

   […] I was testing a stack of old whitewalls, dunking them in the water and marking a yellow chalk circle around each leak.

8. 8

   To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.

   The national holiday is marked by fireworks.

   It was only four thirty but Gerald was marking his guests’ arrival with a Pimm’s, […]

9. 9

   To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).

   His courage and energy marked him as a leader.

   […] the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,

   The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.

   His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.

10. 10

    To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.

    The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]

11. 11

    To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.

    When a king, hath once markt for his hate, / A man inferior; […] / […] euermore, he rakes vp in his brest, / Brands of quicke anger;

    […] I know now that humankind marks certain people for death.

12. 12

    To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.

    The creek marks the boundary between the two farms.

    That summer marked the beginning of her obsession with cycling.

    […] we hastened toward the bordering desert which marked our entrance into the realm of Tal Hajus.

    Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.

13. 13

    To be typical or characteristic of (something).

    […] he still retained that simple, unostentatious elegance, that marks the man of real fashion—

    “Ah,” replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness which […] marked all his deportment,

    […] Cyril’s attitude to his mother was marked by a certain benevolent negligence

14. 14

    To distinguish (one person or thing from another).

    Indeed the smoke was such they scarce could mark Their friends from foes,

    Despite their obvious differences these poets had a common view of life which marks them from their predecessors […]

    Each day was so like the day before, and Christmas Day, when it came, would not have anything to mark it from all the others.

15. 15

    To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.

    Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.

    More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before:

    I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.

    Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

16. 16

    veraltendTo become aware of (something) through the physical senses.

    Some of them [the Animals] coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their Form.

    He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness, for he coloured directly and turned his head away.

    1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499, […] it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.

    Helm had a great horn, and soon it was marked that before he sallied forth he would blow a blast upon it that echoed in the Deep;

17. 17

    To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.

    I marked my man, standing on the catwalk, and waited to throw [my javelin] till he started to climb inboard before they rammed.

18. 18

    To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).

    The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.

    Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.

19. 19

    To record that (someone) has a particular status.

    to mark a student absent.

20. 20

    To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.

    to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game

    Dan was to mark while the doctor and I played [billiards].

21. 21

    To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.

22. 22

    To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.

23. 23

    To put a marker in the place of one's ball.

24. 24

    To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.

Substantiv

1. 1

   historischA half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.

2. 2

   historischSimilar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.

   As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.

3. 3

   historischA half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.

   George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’

   He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.

4. 4

   historischOther similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.

Substantiv

1. 1

   historischA former currency of Germany and West Germany.

   Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich.

Verb

1. 1

   Variante von marchAlternative form of march.

   Mark time, mark!

   Forward, mark!

Formen

Plural

marks

Präteritum

marked

Partizip II

marked

Partizip I

marking

3. Person Singular

marks