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1. (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).Examples: "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 […]."figuratively

2. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).Examples: "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."

3. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.Examples: "The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]"Synonyms: classify, mark out

4. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.Examples: "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."Synonyms: destine, mark out, target

5. (dated except in the phrase "mark my words") To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.Examples: "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."Synonyms: heed, look at, observe, watch

6. (dated) To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.Examples: "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."Synonyms: hear, note, notice, observe, perceive, seedated

1. (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.Synonyms: marco, Spanish mark, marco, Portuguese markhistorical

2. (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.Examples: "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."historical

3. (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.Examples: "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."historical

4. (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.historical

1. (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.Examples: "Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich."Synonyms: Deutschmark, Deutsche Mark, German mark, Reichsmarkhistorical

1. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march.Examples: "Mark time, mark!"; "Forward, mark!"alt-ofalternativeimperative

1. (biblical) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.Synonyms: Mar.countableuncountable