Bed rock
() The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Current
(a.) Running or moving rapidly. |
Current
(a.) Now passing, as time |
Current
(a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand |
Current
(a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged. |
Current
(a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation |
Current
(a.) A flowing or passing |
Current
(a.) General course |
Hall-mark
(n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively |
Mark
(n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque. |
Mark
(n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc. |
Mark
(n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money |
Mark
(n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything |
Mark
(n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made |
Mark
(n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. |
Mark
(n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc. |
Mark
(n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign |
Mark
(n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence |
Mark
(n.) That toward which a missile is directed |
Mark
(n.) Attention, regard, or respect. |
Mark
(n.) Limit or standard of action or fact |
Mark
(n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. |
Mark
(n.) Preeminence |
Mark
(n.) A characteristic or essential attribute |
Mark
(n.) A number or other character used in registring |
Mark
(n.) Image |
Mark
(n.) 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." |
Mark
(v. t.) To put a mark upon |
Mark
(v. t.) To be a mark upon |
Mark
(v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action |
Mark
(v. t.) To keep account of |
Mark
(v. t.) To notice or observe |
Mark
(v. i.) To take particular notice |
Oscillation
(n.) The act of oscillating |
Oscillation
(n.) Fluctuation |
Oscillatory
(a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum |
Plimsoll's mark
() A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law |
Re-mark
(v. t.) To mark again, or a second time |
Rill
(n.) A very small brook |
Rill
(n.) See Rille. |
Rill
(v. i.) To run a small stream. |
Ripple
(v.) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. |
Ripple
(v. t.) To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. |
Ripple
(v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear. |
Ripple
(v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom |
Ripple
(v. i.) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. |
Ripple
(v. t.) To fret or dimple, as the surface of running water |
Ripple
(n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water |
Ripple
(n.) A little wave or undulation |
Ripple
(n.) a small wave on the surface of water or other liquids for which the driving force is not gravity, but surface tension. |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
| rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock
careen
sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
| current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
| cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
| cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
| rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
| rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python
rock snake
Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake
Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
| Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
| Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge
rock partridge
Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove
rock pigeon
Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby
rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab
Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster
langouste
rock lobster
crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle
rock barnacle
Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper
crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
pika
mouse hare
rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel
Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax
rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish
Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass
rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind
Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty
Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel
butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
rock bit
roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden
rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
shoulder board
shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
| mark | the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember, it was in London that he made his mark, he left an indelible mark on the American theater |
| stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
crisscross
cross
mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
| chatter mark | a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece |
scratch
scrape
scar
mark | an indication of damage |
burn
burn mark | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) |
strawberry
strawberry mark
hemangioma simplex | a soft red birthmark |
| mark of Cain | the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature |
mark grade
score | a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance), she made good marks in algebra, grade A milk, what was your score on your homework? |
| Mark Gospel According to Mark | the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament |
letter of marque
letters of marque
letter of mark and reprisal | a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation |
| rock opera | albums of rock music that aspired to the status of art, first appeared in the s |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
mark stigma
brand stain | a symbol of disgrace or infamy, And the Lord set a mark upon Cain--Genesis |
| mark print | a visible indication made on a surface, some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks, paw prints were everywhere |
hoofprint
hoof mark
hoof-mark | a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal |
| mark | a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation), his answer was just a punctuation mark |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |