Definition of Mark

Mark A license of reprisals. See Marque. An old weight and coin. See Marc. The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money; the equivalent of one hundred pfennigs. Also, a silver coin of this value. A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace. A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made; a trade-mark. A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark. A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign; a scratch, scar, stain, etc.; as, this pencil makes a fine mark. An evidence of presence, agency, or influence; a significative token; a symptom; a trace; specifically, a permanent impression of one's activity or character. That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach. Attention, regard, or respect. Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark. Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. Preeminence; high position; as, particians of mark; a fellow of no mark. A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential. A number or other character used in registring; as, examination marks; a mark for tardiness. Image; likeness; hence, those formed in one's image; children; descendants. One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing. To be a mark upon; to designate; to indicate; -- used literally and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader. To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action; as, a pencil marks paper; his hobnails marked the floor. To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards. To notice or observe; to give attention to; to take note of; to remark; to heed; to regard. To take particular notice; to observe critically; to note; to remark. Related Definitions: Account, Action, Activity, Affix, Agency, Aimed, Also, Although, An, And, Any, Anything, Are, Article, As, At, Attention, Attract, Attribute, Badge, Bale, Be, Billiards, Box, Bunting, By, Called, Can, Character, Characteristic, Children, Clothing, Coin, Colored, Come, Convey, Courage, Critically, Cross, Designate, Device, Died, Differential, Directed, Discoloration, Dot, Drawn, Empire, Energy, Enumerate, Equal, Equivalent, Essential, Evidence, Examination, Fact, Fellow, Figure, Fine, Five, Fixed, Floor, For, Formed, From, Game, German, Give, Guidance, Heed, Hence, High, Him, His, Hit, Honor, Hundred, Image, Impressed, Impression, Imprint, In, Indicate, Influence, Information, Intimation, Is, It, Keep, Landmark, Leader, Leather, Leave, Left, License, Like, Likeness, Limit, Line, Literally, Made, Make, Maker, Marc, Mark, Marked, Marque, Merchandise, Missile, Monetary, Monument, Money, No, Not, Note, Notice, Number, Object, Observe, Of, Official, Old, On, One, Or, Other, Paper, Particular, Pencil, Permanent, Pfennigs, Placed, Point, Position, Preeminence, Presence, Put, Rank, Reach, Recognizable, Regard, Regarded, Register, Remark, Respect, Scar, Scratch, Seamark, See, Serving, Ship, Show, Sign, Signature, Significant, Significative, Silver, So, Some, Sounding, Specifically, Spot, Stain, Stamp, Standard, Station, Substitute, Surveyor, Symptom, Take, Tardiness, That, The, Thing, This, Those, To, Token, Toward, Trace, Trade-Mark, Traveler, Two, Unit, United, Up, Upon, Used, Value, Visible, Was, Weight, What, Where, Which, Who, Whom, Within, Write

Mark Quotations The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. Thomas Jefferson He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. Benjamin Franklin Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. Theodore Roosevelt It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Jonathan Swift One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Saint Thomas Aquinas

Mark Translations mark in Danish is tegn mark in Dutch is merken, tekenen mark in Finnish is leimata, merkki mark in French is marquent, signe, marquons, moelle, cachet, marque mark in German is Marke, markieren mark in Italian is censura, simbolo, marcare, marchio, designare mark in Latin is macula, nota, vestigium mark in Portuguese is marca, aceno