Word: mark Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Compare march. Cognates * Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”) * German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”) * Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”) * Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”) * Latin margō (“edge, margin”) * Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”) * Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”). Pronunciation: /mɑːk/, /mɑɹk/, /mäː(ɾ)k/, /maːk/, /maːrk/ 1. Boundary, land within a boundary. Labels: obsolete 2. Boundary, land within a boundary. Labels: obsolete 3. Boundary, land within a boundary. Example: 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. Boundary, land within a boundary. 5. Boundary, land within a boundary. Labels: archaic Example: There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan. 6. Boundary, land within a boundary. Labels: historical 7. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: 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. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman. Example: 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. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: 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. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: 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. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly. 12. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy. Example: 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? 13. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate. 14. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Labels: archaic Example: patricians of mark Example: a fellow of no mark 15. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. 16. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: I filled the bottle up to the 500 ml mark. 17. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8. 18. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. 19. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Labels: obsolete 20. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two. 21. Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression. Example: 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. Score, grade, or related judgement. Labels: Commonwealth Example: What mark did you get in your history test? 23. Score, grade, or related judgement. 24. Score, grade, or related judgement. Example: 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. Target or indicator. Example: 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. Example: 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. Target or indicator. Labels: informal Example: 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. Example: [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. 27. Target or indicator. 28. Attention. Example: But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark 29. Attention. Labels: archaic Example: His last comment is particularly worthy of mark. 30. Attention. Example: 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. Attention. Labels: obsolete 32. The female genitals. Labels: obsolete Example: A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be. Example: 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. 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. Limit or standard of action or fact. Example: to be within the mark Example: to come up to the mark