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Mark Off

Definition: Mark Off

Mark Off

Verb

1. Set boundaries to; "mark out the territory".

2. Put a check mark on or next to; "Please check each name on the list".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Mark Off

Synonyms: check (v), check off (v), mark (v), mark out (v), tick off (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mark Off

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Record

Enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick off; register, enroll, inscroll; file; (store).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mark Off

English words defined with "mark off": DenotateTo set out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mark off": jogger operatorLAYBOY TENDERsheeter helper. (references)
Etymologies containing "mark off": Aphorism. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mark Off

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Ireland

As an example, the date March 17, 1996 is usually found in written correspondence as 17 March 1996 or 17.3.1996. For currency or other numerical quantities, use commas to mark off the thousands position and a decimal point (period) to denote decimal amounts -- the same practice as followed in the United States; for example IR1,234,456.78. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mark Off

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cartoon mark off

3

jerking mark off wahlberg

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mark Off

Language Translations for "mark off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shënoj kufitë, ndaj me vizë (part). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تخم (barrier, borderland, delimit, demarcate, edge, march). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разграничавам от, градуирам (calibrate, gauge, graduate), очертавам границите на. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(draw, to delimit, to drink, to mark off, to swallow, to transfer), ' (draw, to mark off, to row). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zaškrtnout, vyznaèit (highlight, signalize), ohranièit (circumscribe, restrict), odmìřit (measure off), oddìlit (detach, disjunct, dispart, fractionate, part, partition, scorify, segregate, separate, sequester, sever, split off). (various references)

   

French

  

séparer, distinguer (make out, mark out), délimiter (mark out), borner (to mark out the boundaries of a mining lease). (various references)

   

German

  

markieren (earmark, indicate, label, mark, point out, put it on, show, to tag), kennzeichnen (characterize, denote, designate, earmark, flag, identify, indicate, label, Mark, number plate, point out, show, signalize, signify, signpost, to denote, to earmark, to flag, to label, to mark), absperren (barricade off, block off, close off, lock up, seal off, section off, shut off, turn off), abgrenzen (bound, define, delimit, fence off, mark-off, rope in, to delimit, to mark down, to mark out, to mark-off). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקבוע תחום, ל"פרי" (dissociate oneself from, divide, part, separate, set apart, sever, sunder, uncouple). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kimér (measure, to allot, to measure, to mete, to mete out, to meter, to weigh out, weigh out), kijelöl (allot, appoint, assign, designate, doom, lay out, mark out, situate, tell off, to appoint, to assign, to designate, to fix on, to lay out, to mark out, to reassign, to set out, to trace out), elhatárol (delimit, terminate, to bound, to circumscribe, to draw a line, to limit, to mark off, to terminate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

区切る (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop), 句切る (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop), 仕切る (to divide, to mark off, to partition, to settle accounts, to toe the mark). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くぎる (to cut off, to mark off, to punctuate, to put an end to, to stop), しきる (to divide, to mark off, to partition, to settle accounts, to toe the mark). (various references)

   

Manx

  

towse (calibre, capacity, divine law, dose, gauge, size, size up, sum up, summing up, time, tit, tit of gold, value, weigh, weigh out; rating). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arkmay offay

   

Romanian

  

mãrgini (border, bound, enclose, include, limit, margin, verge), hotãrnici (bound), demarca (delimit, demarcate), delimita (bound, circumscribe, define, delimit, demarcate, determine, set bounds to, set out, terminate), însemna (badge, be, betoken, brand, chalk out, connote, denote, dint, excoriate, imply, import, item, jot down, mean, note, record, scotch, signify, spell, stand, tick). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разграничивать (demarcate, draw the line), отмерять (admeasure, measure off, measure out). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razgraničiti (confine, restrict), odrediti (allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, cast, define, designate, destine, detail, determine, fix, mark out, modify, order, peg, route, set, set by), obeležiti (graduate, imprint, mark, mark out, note, spot, tick), izdvojiti (abstract, extricate, segregate, single out). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

marcar (beat, beat out, brand, check off, denote, dial, get, indicate, kick, lay down, Mark, peg, point to, read, register, say, scar, score, seam, set, shoot, show, stamp, tally, tell, tick), tachar algo (blot out, blue pencil, cut out, impeach, strike through), señalar (designate, determine, finger, Mark, mark out, point, pointing out, show, signalize), poner una señal a, jalonar (mark out), distinguir (discriminate, distinguish, make out, mark out, pick out, signalize, tell, tell apart), delimitar (delimit, delimitate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

markera (empasize, highlight, indicate, mark, pick out, plot, stress, trace). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sınırlarını çizmek (bound, mark out). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відрізняти (characterize, discern, discriminate, distinguish, separate, tell apart), відокремлювати (abstract, dissever, distinguish, isolate, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, single), відміряти (admeasure, measure, mete). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mark Off

Misspellings

"Mark Off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: markoff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mark Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-f-k-m-o-r"

-2 letters: foram.

-3 letters: amok, farm, faro, foam, fora, fork, form, from, mako, mark, mora, okra, raff, roam.

-4 letters: aff, arf, ark, arm, far, for, fro, kaf, koa, kor, mar, moa, mor, oaf, oak, oar, off, oka, ora, ram, rom.

-5 letters: am, ar, fa, ka, ma, mo, of, om, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-f-k-m-o-r"
 

+4 letters: coffeemaker.

 

+5 letters: coffeemakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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