Marking
['mɑːkɪŋ] or ['mɑrkɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making a visible mark on a surface.
(noun.) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; 'what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do'.
(noun.) a pattern of marks.
Typist: Marion--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mark
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage.
Checker: Victoria
Examples
- Birth, abilities, and education, had been equally marking one as an associate for her, to be received with gratitude; and the otherwhat was she? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thus, an extended contact was made, which, by transmitting a long impulse, resulted in the marking of a dash upon the receiving tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There has been much discussion and controversy over this Eozoon, but to-day it is agreed that Eozoon is nothing more than a crystalline marking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We had to stop playing finally because Dan got to sleeping fifteen minutes between the counts and paying no attention to his marking. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nearly all historians are disposed to regard the career of Alexander the Great as marking an epoch in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Outlandish, too, she said, marking the dress and turban of Rebecca--What country art thou of? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Some of them coming forward near the place where I lay, gave me an opportunity of distinctly marking their form. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Louis Moore sat at his desk, turning the leaves of a book, open before him, and marking passages with his pencil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We have cited the enthusiasm of the commonalty for the First Crusade as marking a new phase in social history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Anselmo lay face down behind the white marking stone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He took a small wooden tablet from the work-table in his shop, and marking certain lines upon it, cut away the wood so that it left a stamp of his wife’s name. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These were followed in 1252 by the publication of the Alphonsine Tables, an event which astrono mers regard as marking the dawn of European science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We saw rude piles of stones standing near the roadside, at intervals, and recognized the custom of marking boundaries which obtained in Jacob's time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sit down, and do a line of marking. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had been used to think her unjust to Jane, and had now great pleasure in marking an improvement. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These markings and fossils in the rocks and the rocks themselves are our first historical documents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On being released the pendulum would return, and in this way zigzag markings, as shown at 4 and 5, would be produced on the strip of paper, which formed the alphabet. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These Azilian people have left behind them a multitude of pebbles, roughly daubed with markings of an unknown purport (see illus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The younger man had added an improvement of his own; instead of the dots and dashes being indicated by the markings of a pen or pencil they were embossed on the paper with a metal stylus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He saw the red wing markings now and he watched their steady, stately roaring advance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He called these markings _Eozoon Canadense_ (the Canadian dawn-animal). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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