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MARKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making a visible mark on a surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):
decoration (the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):
lineation (the act of marking or outlining with lines)
mottling (the act of coloring with areas of different shades)
striping (the act of marking with stripes)
Derivation:
mark (make or leave a mark on)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
Example:
what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):
evaluation; rating (act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of)
Derivation:
mark (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A pattern of marks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):
design; figure; pattern (a decorative or artistic work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):
blaze (a light-colored marking)
crisscross; cross; mark (a marking that consists of lines that cross each other)
eyespot; ocellus (an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color)
shading (graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting)
dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot (a small contrasting part of something)
bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A distinguishing symbol
Example:
the owner's mark was on all the sheep
Synonyms:
mark; marker; marking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):
symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):
cairn (a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path)
label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)
pip; spot (a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit))
peg; pin (small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.)
milepost; milestone (stone post at side of a road to show distances)
broad arrow (an arrowhead mark identifying British government property)
watermark (a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light)
postmark (a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing)
assay-mark; authentication; hallmark (a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity)
trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)
brand (identification mark on skin, made by burning)
earmark (identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal)
Derivation:
mark (attach a tag or label to)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb mark
Context examples:
I have learned it by looking from my own chamber window and marking these poor monks of the priory, their weary life, their profitless round.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The dog is primarily black, with white markings, which are distinct and occur on the head, neck, chest, abdomen and legs.
(Karelian Bear Dog, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat is a tri-color double coat (black with rust and white markings).
(Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, NCI Thesaurus)
Black with tan markings is the most common.
(German Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)
The coat color should always be black with clearly differentiated tan markings.
(Gordon Setter, NCI Thesaurus)
Some of them coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their form.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The coat comes in solid red, sandy, or dark or silvery blue with tan markings on the head and legs.
(Australian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
She consulted, and in a degree was influenced by her in marking out the scheme of retrenchment which was at last submitted to Sir Walter.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
There was no powder-marking either upon his dressing-gown or on his hands.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He captured the hand that invited, and felt on the palm familiar markings and distortions.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
