What is mark?

More definitions of "mark":

• (noun): Apostle and companion of Saint Peter; assumed to be the author of the second Gospel.
  Synonyms: Saint Mark, St. Mark

• (verb): Make underscoring marks.
  Synonyms: score

• (noun): A distinguishing symbol.
  Example: "The owner's mark was on all the sheep"
  Synonyms: marker, marking

• (verb): Designate as if by a mark.
  Example: "This sign marks the border"; "He indicated where the border ended"

• (noun): The shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament.
  Synonyms: Gospel According to Mark

• (verb): Put a check mark on or next to.
  Synonyms: check, check off, mark off, tick off, tick

• (noun): An indication of damage.
  Synonyms: scratch, scrape, scar

• (noun): A visible indication made on a surface.
  Synonyms: print

• (verb): Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense.
  Synonyms: distinguish, differentiate

• (verb): To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.
  Synonyms: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce

• (noun): Formerly the basic unit of money in Germany.
  Synonyms: German mark, Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark

• (verb): Remove from a list.
  Synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off

• (verb): Notice or perceive.
  Example: "Mark my words"
  Synonyms: notice, note

• (verb): Mark by some ceremony or observation.
  Synonyms: commemorate

• (verb): Insert punctuation marks into.
  Synonyms: punctuate

• (verb): Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.
  Example: "Mark homework"
  Synonyms: grade, score

• (verb): Mark with a scar.
  Synonyms: scar, pock, pit

• (noun): A written or printed symbol (as for punctuation).
  Example: "His answer was just a punctuation mark"

• (noun): Marking consisting of crossing lines.
  Synonyms: crisscross, cross

• (noun): A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.
  Synonyms: chump, fool, gull, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug

• (noun): The impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember.
  Example: "It was in London that he made his mark"; "he left an indelible mark on the American theater"

• (noun): A reference point to shoot at.
  Example: "His arrow hit the mark"
  Synonyms: target

• (verb): Make small marks into the surface of.
  Synonyms: score, nock

• (noun): A perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened).
  Synonyms: sign

• (verb): Attach a tag or label to.
  Synonyms: tag, label

• (noun): Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal.
  Example: "Hit the mark"
  Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run

• (verb): Establish as the highest level or best performance.
  Synonyms: set

• (noun): A symbol of disgrace or infamy.
  Example: "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
  Synonyms: stigma, brand, stain

• (verb): Make or leave a mark on.
  Example: "Mark the trail so that we can find our way back"

Famous quotes containing the word mark:

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:11.

Jesus.

“Love’s mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.
And if some lover, such as we,
Have heard this dialogue of one,
Let him still mark us, he shall see
Small change, when we’re to bodies gone.””
—John Donne (1572–1631)

“There mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)