“Coffee dribbled down the side of Bill's cheek, and he would throw his hands up in the air in despair after noticing a mark on his crisp, white shirt.”
“This mark will be displayed on all of the bank's ATMs so that customers can easily identify them.”
“The mark looked like the symbol for life that the mystics had created years ago.”
(Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. [from 19th c.]
(sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. [from 19th c.]
(nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
“Coffee dribbled down the side of Bill's cheek, and he would throw his hands up in the air in despair after noticing a mark on his crisp, white shirt.”
“This mark will be displayed on all of the bank's ATMs so that customers can easily identify them.”
“The mark looked like the symbol for life that the mystics had created years ago.”
“I could tell by the marking on his jacket that he was a doctor.”
“The members of the local board were subjected to a most searching examination relative to their conduct of the examination and their marking of the papers and grading of the applicants.”
“The attached directives make clear that the marking of documents with these legends is only a preliminary determination that they are not to be disclosed.”
markedness
(linguistics) The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
“McComas looked out at him with no particular expression and indeed with no markedness of attention.”
“In recent years, researchers in second-language acquisition have begun to consider the application of linguistic markedness theory to aspects of second-language learning.”
“The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax.”