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 |
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 |
Registered (imp. & p. p.) of Register |
Re-mark (v. t.) To mark again, or a second time |
Trade-mark (n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. |
Word (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea |
Word (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term |
Word (n.) Talk |
Word (n.) Account |
Word (n.) Signal |
Word (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it |
Word (n.) Verbal contention |
Word (n.) A brief remark or observation |
Word (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion |
Word (v. t.) To express in words |
Word (v. t.) To ply with words |
Word (v. t.) To flatter with words |
Word-catcher (n.) One who cavils at words. |
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 |
word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
word game | any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words |
word play | playing on words or speech sounds |
whole-word method | teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words |
verbolatry grammatolatry word-worship | the worship of words |
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 |
chic chicness chichi modishness smartness stylishness swank last word | elegance by virtue of being fashionable |
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? |
hairsplitting word-splitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance, they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously |
morphology sound structure syllable structure word structure | the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
word | a unit of language that native speakers can identify, words are the blocks from which sentences are made, he hardly said ten words all morning |
antonym opposite word opposite | a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other, to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed' |
blend portmanteau word portmanteau | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings, `smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog', `motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel', `brunch' is a well-known portmanteau |
cognate cognate word | a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
content word openlass word | a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned |
deictic deictic word | a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs, words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message- R.Rommetveit |
dirty word | a word that is considered to be unmentionable, `failure' is a dirty word to him |
form word form signifier descriptor | the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something, the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached |
four-letter word four-letter Anglo-Saxon word | any of several short English words (often having letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive |
function word closedlass word | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning |
guide word guideword catchword | a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page |
head head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
headword head word | a content word that can be qualified by a modifier |
hypernym superordinate superordinate word | a word that is more generic than a given word |
hyponym subordinate subordinate word | a word that is more specific than a given word |
key word | a significant word used in indexing or cataloging |
monosyllable monosyllabic word | a word or utterance of one syllable |
nonce word hapax legomenon | a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion |
ghost word | a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error |
root root word base stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |
citation form main entry word entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |
polysemant polysemantic word polysemous word | a word having more than one meaning |
polysyllable polysyllabic word | a word of more than three syllables |
synonym equivalent word | two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
vocable spoken word | a word that is spoken aloud |
part of speech form class word class | one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
written word | the written form of a word, while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something, a craftsman of the written word |
word order | the order of words in a text |
last word | an authoritative statement, my doctor has the last word on the medicines I take |
word finder wordfinder | a thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think of |
Bible Christian Bible Book Good Book Holy Scripture Holy Writ Scripture Word of God Word | the sacred writings of the Christian religions, he went to carry the Word to the heathen |