marks

nounblemish; character
nouncharacteristic, symptom
nouncriterion, standard
noungoal, target
nounimportance
verbblemish, stain
verbcharacterize
verbsee, notice

Synonyms for marks

noun blemish; character

Antonyms for marks

Word Origin & History

"trace, impression," Old English mearc (West Saxon), merc (Mercian) "boundary, sign, limit, mark," from Proto-Germanic *marko (cf. Old Norse merki "boundary, sign," mörk "forest," which often marked a frontier; Old Frisian merke, Gothic marka "boundary, frontier," Dutch merk "mark, brand," German Mark "boundary, boundary land"), from PIE *merg- "edge, boundary, border" (cf. Latin margo "margin;" Avestan mareza- "border," Old Irish mruig, Irish bruig "borderland," Welsh bro "district").

The primary sense is probably "boundary," which had evolved by Old English through "sign of a boundary," through "sign in general," then to "impression or trace forming a sign." Meaning "any visible trace or impression" first recorded c.1200. Sense of "line drawn to indicate starting point of a race" (e.g. on your marks ...) first attested 1887. The Middle English sense of "target" (c.1200) is the notion in marksman and slang sense "victim of a swindle" (1883). The notion of "sign, token" is behind the meaning "numerical award given by a teacher" (1829). Influenced by Scandinavian cognates.

Example Sentences for marks

One of these marks the units and the other the hundredths (Fig. 5).

When he could not remember his father's marks he made up others.

They have left here the marks of tragedy, of pathos, or of joy.

Well, it is quite evident they are examining some sort of marks.

"My friend, I told you so," said the uncle, with a fine pulsation in the two marks.

These marks had been made by many hands, and I wondered where they were now.

A necklace of rubies, the best they have, one that will cost at least twenty thousand marks.

Docility, as I have pointed out elsewhere, is one of the marks of genius.

You will see the marks of the wheels where I have gone before, and they will guide.

Magna Charta was secured by men who signed the deed with their marks.

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