mark
attach a tag or label to
How often you will meet it
Rank 888 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,711 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- attach a tag or label to also: tag, label label these bottles
- designate as if by a mark This sign marks the border
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense also: distinguish, differentiate His modesty distinguishes him from his peers
- celebrate by some ceremony or observation also: commemorate The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade
- make or leave a mark on the scouts marked the trailash marked the believers' foreheads
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful also: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce He denounced the government actionShe was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
mark in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Didst thou not mark the jest of the silkworm?
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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A mark of vast confidence, as he observed to her.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I was married and, although still young, a person of some mark in literature.
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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But king o’ the club, the gayest golden spark, Sailor o’ sailors, what sailor do I mark?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark 335 The track of thy destroying bark.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1