markedadj.n.
/mɑːkt/, U.S. /mɑrkt/ (In sense A. 2 also)Brit. /ˈmɑːkᵻd/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkəd/ A. adj.
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a. Having a visible mark or marks; expressed by a mark; distinguished or separated from others by or as by a mark.
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society > communication > indication > marking > [adjective]
markedlOE
lOE Bounds (Sawyer 412) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 358 To ðære gemearcodan æc æt aleburnan.
1474–5 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 215 (MED) I wyll that Nicholas..have ij sylver sponnes merked.
1574 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 87/2 Ony..strang beggar markit or not markit wanting a licence.
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 9 Of Keyes some are..marked Keyes, others are called vnmarked Keyes. Of the marked, there are fiue principall..which the Ambrosians..did mark with colours.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 227 A marked stone in the pavement.
1668 Sir T. Browne Let. 29 Dec. (1946) 372 That wch wee call a gossander & is no rare fowle among us, is a large, well colourd & marked diving fowle, most answering the merganser.
1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 349 Draw upon these marked Lines with Oyl Colours.
1768 in N. Carolina Colonial Rec. VII. 853 From the top of Tryon Mountain beginning at the marked Trees thereon [etc.].
1806 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 (ed. 2) I. 44 We were gratified with the sight of a small herd of the beautifully marked animal the zebra.
1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 Jan. 45 A number of prettily marked ones [sc. snails].
1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 5 Herr Von K. is preparing to fire a marked half-crown from a blunderbuss.
1913 M. A. McManus Reminisc. Early Settlem. Maranoa District 10 My father made the first marked tree line from Mount Abundance to Wallumbilla Station in 1859.
1989 D. Morrow & M. Keyes Conc. Hist. Sport Canada 169 In shinty the object was to drive the ball beyond the opposing team's goal, rather than through a marked area, as in field hockey or bandy.
b. spec. Of a playing card: secretly prepared with a mark or other distinguishing feature on the back, to enable or facilitate cheating or conjuring.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Card Among sharpers divers sorts of false or fraudulent cards have been contrived; as marked cards.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xiii. 264 ‘This is some vile conspiracy of your own, fellow,’ said de Bœffleurs; ‘marked cards indeed! a pretty tale, forsooth! The Ministers of a first-rate power playing with marked cards!’
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights I. 46 Three times the cards went all round the table, and neither of the marked cards had yet fallen from his hand.
1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress 37 In the early days of Poker the marked cards used by the sharpers were prepared beforehand by the gamblers themselves.
1991 R. Schwartz tr. I. B. Singer Scum ii. 56 Once somebody used marked cards and took everybody.
c. Linguistics. Of a word, form, construction, etc., in a binary opposition: distinguished by the presence of a positive feature of sound, meaning, structure, etc. Also more generally: designating the less frequent or less usual of two alternatives. Opposed to unmarked adj. 1c. See also markedness n. 2. [After Russian priznakovyj (R. Jakobson 1930, in Let. 31 July to N. S. Trubetzkoy, responding to Trubetzkoy's coinage of the noun priznak mark n.1 for the feature itself); compare French marqué, German merkmalhaltig (R. Jakobson & N. S. Trubetzkoy 1931, in Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague 4).]
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the mind > language > linguistics > [adjective] > specific types or features of linguistic analysis
paradigmatic1891
realizational1904
non-distinctive1916
principled1919
binary1921
over-differentiated1927
marked1933
unmarked1933
isomorphic1937
nuclear1937
contrastive1940
metalinguistic1941
metalingual1942
componential1947
linear1955
rewrite1960
unordered1960
taxonomic1962
non-binary1971
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xvi. 268 A phrase consisting of the preposition to and an infinitive expression belongs to the special form-class of marked infinitive phrases, whose function differs from that of unmarked infinitive expressions.
1959 R. Quirk in R. Quirk & A.H. Smith Teaching of Eng. i. 44 It seems likely that this structural notion of marked and unmarked members of opposing pairs can be applied cautiously but with profit to many of the binary choices in usage at more complex linguistic levels than the lexical.
1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 404 A major difference between the Praguian conception of markedness and our own is that in the former the marked coefficient of a feature was assumed always to be + and the unmarked coefficient always −.
1990 Internat. Rev. Appl. Linguistics 28 45 A constituent found at the beginning of the clause..to the left of the unmarked theme becomes marked theme.
2. Emphasized; clearly defined or clearly noticeable, striking; evident.Recorded earliest in well-marked adj. 2. See also strongly marked adj. at strongly adv. Compounds 1b.
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly
notablea1398
staring?a1425
loud1535
gross1581
strong1583
signal1591
conspicuous1604
marked1620
remarked1623
ranka1640
signalized1652
bold1678
flaming1706
glaring1706
telegraphic1809
salient1841
howling1865
insistent1868
rampageous1889
1620 J. Pyper tr. H. d'Urfé Hist. Astrea v. 139 This line of life, clean, wel mark'd, & long, shews that you shall liue, from the diseases of your body, in good health.
1764 J. Dalrymple Considerations Policy of Entails Great Brit. viii. 107 There are two well-marked differences betwixt the circumstances of England and Scotland.
1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. lxxxvii. 128 There was a marked significance in his manner.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 51 He looked at the flower-pot with marked disdain.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 440 Their hymns depended, for metrical effect, on the marked accents and powerful rhymes which the Latin language affords.
1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 9 A quarter of a grain has generally a marked action on a healthy man.
1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. ii. iii. 167 He slightly resented a piece of marked incivility.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. xiv. 169 Of those qualities enumerated above,..Audley Egerton only exhibited to a marked degree—the common sense, and the readiness.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World i The third with more marked features.
1888 Poor Nellie 82 George avoided you in the most marked manner.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 933 The antipyrine-rash..is not accompanied by marked fever.
1934 R. Lynd Both Sides of Road x. 62 But neither in the hotel nor in the streets could I see any marked difference between England in a period of depression and England in a period of affluence.
1956 I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter ix. 113 Rosa could also remember having met both ladies..and having felt a marked preference for Mrs Wingfield.
1979 J. Rathbone Joseph ii. vi. 270 Father Reaney had a marked accent which was Irish but flattened and nasal.
1992 D. Madden Remembering Light & Stone x. 93 Behind all the extravagance was a marked sense of unease.
3. Of a piece of work, an examination paper, etc.: given a mark or marks; assessed; corrected. Cf. mark v. 9b.
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1895 School Rev. 3 677 There is nothing that stimulates boys to do good work in Latin and Greek so much as an abundance of marked papers in composition.
1921 Educ. Rev. June 49 A college that is maintaining exacting standards by giving periodic, closely marked tests.
1960 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 327/2 Some of the marked work used in determining the weekly mark covers new work learned during class and tested in the same week.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 17 Dec. 10 Blunders included..boxes of completed test papers lying unmarked in warehouses, missing papers and marked papers being sent to the wrong schools.
4. Sport. In team games, as football, hockey, etc.: designating a player to whom an opposing player is keeping close, with the intention of hampering effective participation in attacking play. Frequently with modifying adverb. Cf. mark v. 17.Not used in North America.
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1924 Times 3 Oct. 4/7 Buchan as the leader of the attack is a much marked player.
1930 H. V. Burr Field Hockey iii. 27 The centre forward is, usually, the most carefully marked player on the field.
1953 Jrnl. Physical Educ. 45 20 Several times, in fact, I saw players use this direct pass to a marked player when they themselves were unchallenged.
1998 Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Nov. 63 The defeat would have been heavier still had 16-stone Skinstad..not passed inside to the marked Andre Venter..when a pass outside to the unmarked Stefan Terblanche would have given his wing a 10th try in 10 Tests.
2006 Sun (Nexis) 14 Aug. Wherever he was, it was nowhere near the ball and poorly marked defender Stephen McManus headed into the empty net.
B. n.
With plural agreement. With the. People who have been marked or marked out; †people marked out by God, God's elect (obsolete).
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person > collective
sheepc825
chosenc1200
heritagea1340
markedc1350
Israel1382
peculiar peoplea1513
forechosen1577
peculiar1610
election1611
predestinated1626
peculiar racea1657
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 54 (MED) I herd þe noumbre of þe merked foure þousande & fourty hundreþ of þe kynde of israel.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) Apoc. vii. 4 I herde the noumbre of markid [v.r. men singnyd; a1425 L.V. men that weren markid; L. signatorum], an hundrid and foure and fourty thousynd markid [L. signati], of euery lynage of the sones of Yrael.
1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 319/2 From the Marcked of the Hand of God, and from Traytors Hands, the Lord keepe vs.
1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 282 We shall not be ever again The marked of many, loved of one.
Compounds
C1.
marked bar n. now historical a particular quality of rolled iron stamped with the maker's brand name or trademark.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron > cast iron in form of pigs > types of
mine-iron1838
grundy1840
silvery iron1861
mine pig1867
marked bar1888
marked iron1888
1888 Daily News 24 Sept. 2/7 Marked bars are almost the only class of iron that have not been advanced... Most marked bar houses are in a better position than they have been for a year or two past.
1971 W. K. V. Gale Iron & Steel Industry: Dict. Terms 30 Staffordshire marked bars..were formerly well known.
marked cheque n. a cheque of which the value is guaranteed by a bank.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > cheque
paper credit1725
draught1736
banker's draft1764
bank cheque1774
draft1786
sight cheque1863
certified cheque1880
marked cheque1896
Eurocheque1969
1896 R. H. I. Palgrave Dict. Polit. Econ. II. 695/2 Marked cheques are payable in the first clearing of the next day, and cannot be refused for any reason.
1907 W. G. Cordingley London Commerc. Dict. 115 Marked cheque, a cheque marked by the banker on whom it is drawn, stating that it is ‘good’ for the amount named upon it.
1930 W. H. Hutchinson & F. J. B. Lovell Short Dict. Legal Terms 77 Marked cheques,..cheques initialled by a banker as an indication that he holds sufficient balance to meet such cheque when presented.
1951 R. W. Jones Thomson's Dict. Banking (ed. 10) 395 Marked Cheque. Marking cheques takes one of two forms—marking for clearing purposes and marking at the request of the drawer.
marked file n. rare a file of newspapers or journals in which the names of the authors of articles have been recorded.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > file recording names of writers
marked file1902
1902 Daily Chron. 1 May 5/2 There are many ‘marked files’ in the British Museum.
marked iron n. now historical = marked bar n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron > cast iron in form of pigs > types of
mine-iron1838
grundy1840
silvery iron1861
mine pig1867
marked bar1888
marked iron1888
1888 Daily News 10 Dec. 2/8 Marked iron is unchanged.
marked man n. (a) a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostility; a person marked out for retribution, attack, etc.; (b) a person marked out for success (rare).
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the mind > emotion > hatred > enemy > [noun] > deadly enemy > one regarded or monitored as an enemy
marked man1833
1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 181 So marked man passe where thou wilt, Gods wrath shall follow thee.
1780 F. Burney Let. 10 June (1950) 55 Mr. Thrale's house..is..threatened by the mob..he may himself be a marked man for their fury.
1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) xi. 125 You are a marked man in Manchester,..no master in any trade will take you in among his men.
1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 285 On the accession of Queen Mary he naturally became a marked man.
1903 Sun (N.Y.) 5 Nov. 3 Ever since his so-called ‘squeal’ at the Lexow investigation he has been a marked man.
1991 Business July 28 He is a marked man... If Burgmans delivers the goods, he should be in line for one of the coveted jobs on the so-called chief executive committee which governs the Anglo-Dutch enterprise.
marked price n. the price of an article for sale as indicated by an attached label, etc.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price marked on goods
marked price1860
sticker price1959
sticker1974
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 226 ‘To shave a customer’, charge him more for an article than the marked price. Used in the drapery trade.
1887 Daily News 19 Oct. 2/6 In many instances the marked prices are clearly prohibitive.
1931 J. F. Pyle Marketing Princ. xx. 518 Mark-up is..the difference between the marked price of the merchandise, at retail, and the cost of merchandise bought.
1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) xii. 192 The trader..must specify the difference between the marked price and any other price as a percentage or as an amount of money.
marked proof n. rare an impression of an engraving in which some detail is left unfinished as a mark of an early state of the plate.
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1905 N.E.D. at Marked Marked proof.
marked transfer n. Finance an instrument for the transfer of shares of certified value (see quots.).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > marked transfer
marked transfer1901
1901 W. G. Cordingley Dict. Stock Exchange Terms 59 Marked Transfers. The company..then issue a fresh Certificate to him for the part unsold, and endorse the Transfer that they hold Certificates to cover the number of shares sold, when the Transfer is said to be ‘Marked’ or ‘Certified’.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Marked transfer, an instrument for transferring a portion of the shares of a stockholder's certificate after being certified as good by a proper official on the London stock exchange.
C2. With adverbs (hyphenated when attributive). That has been marked off, out, up, etc. See also marked-down adj.
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1838 F. Heywood tr. I. Kant Critique Pure Reason 143 They..do not therefore belong to our marked-out field of investigation.
1914 W. Owen Let. 24 May (1967) 254 Enormously [have I advanced] in some fields [of study], but not along the marked-out high-roads.
1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 580 When Luke saw that one third of the town's houses stood in the marked-off area he protested.
1986 Computer Jrnl. 29 iii. 194/2 It is against this that the marked-up document is checked to ensure that it conforms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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