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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024marked /mɑrkt/USA pronunciation adj. - striking; conspicuous:showed marked improvements in all the tests.
- watched as someone suspected of something, or as the object of revenge:The accountant is a marked man.
- having a mark or marks.
mark•ed•ly /ˈmɑrkɪdli/USA pronunciation adv. : His grades improved markedly after tutoring. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024marked (märkt),USA pronunciation adj. - strikingly noticeable; conspicuous:with marked success.
- watched as an object of suspicion or vengeance:a marked man.
- having a mark or marks:beautifully marked birds; to read the marked pages.
- Linguistics
- (of a phoneme) characterized by the presence of a phonological feature that serves to distinguish it from an otherwise similar phoneme lacking that feature, as (d), which, in contrast to (t), is characterized by the presence of voicing.
- characterized by the presence of a marker indicating the grammatical function of a construction, as the plural in English, which, in contrast to the singular, is typically indicated by the presence of the marker -s.
- specifying an additional element of meaning, in contrast to a semantically related item, as drake in contrast to duck, where drake specifies "male'' while duck does not necessarily specify sex.
- occurring less typically than an alternative form, as the word order in Down he fell in contrast to the more usual order of He fell down. Cf. unmarked (def. 2).
- Middle English; Old English gemearcod; see mark1, -ed2
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged striking, outstanding, obvious, prominent.
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