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 |
Reference
(n.) The act of referring, or the state of being referred |
Reference
(n.) That which refers to something |
Reference
(n.) Relation |
Reference
(n.) One who, or that which, is referred to. |
Reference
(n.) One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another. |
Reference
(n.) A work, or a passage in a work, to which one is referred. |
Reference
(n.) The act of submitting a matter in dispute to the judgment of one or more persons for decision. |
Reference
(n.) The process of sending any matter, for inquiry in a cause, to a master or other officer, in order that he may ascertain facts and report to the court. |
Reference
(n.) Appeal. |
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. |
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 |
reference
consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
| reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
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 |
| frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
coordinate system
frame of reference
reference system
reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
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? |
reference
denotation
extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
| reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
inertial reference frame
inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
address computer address
reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
reference book
reference reference work
book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
| reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
citation cite
acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
| mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
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 |
check mark
check tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc., as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name |
diacritical mark
diacritic | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
ditto mark
ditto | a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
| accent accent mark | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
| stress mark | a mark indicating the stress on a syllable |
punctuation
punctuation mark | the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases |
exclamation mark
exclamation point | a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation |
question mark
interrogation point | a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question |
quotation mark
quote
inverted comma | a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else |
authentication
hallmark
assay-mark | a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity |
service stripe
hashmark
hash mark | an insignia worn to indicate years of service |
anatomical reference
anatomical | an expression that relates to anatomy |
reference point
point of reference
reference | an indicator that orients you generally, it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
| reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
| benchmark bench mark | a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point |