MARKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marking mean? 

• MARKING (noun)
  The noun MARKING has 4 senses:

1. a distinguishing symbol

2. a pattern of marks

3. evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

4. the act of making a visible mark on a surface

  Familiarity information: MARKING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distinguishing symbol

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

mark; marker; marking

Context example:

the owner's mark was on all the sheep

Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):

symbol (an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):

cairn (a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path)

label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)

pip; spot (a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit))

peg; pin (small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.)

milepost; milestone (stone post at side of a road to show distances)

broad arrow (an arrowhead mark identifying British government property)

watermark (a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light)

postmark (a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing)

assay-mark; authentication; hallmark (a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity)

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

brand (identification mark on skin, made by burning)

earmark (identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal)

Derivation:

mark (attach a tag or label to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pattern of marks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):

design; figure; pattern (a decorative or artistic work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):

blaze (a light-colored marking)

crisscross; cross; mark (a marking that consists of lines that cross each other)

eyespot; ocellus (an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color)

shading (graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting)

dapple; fleck; maculation; patch; speckle; spot (a small contrasting part of something)

bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

grading; marking; scoring

Context example:

what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do

Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):

evaluation; rating (act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of)

Derivation:

mark (assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of making a visible mark on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("marking" is a kind of...):

decoration (the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marking"):

mottling (the act of coloring with areas of different shades)

striping (the act of marking with stripes)

lineation (the act of marking or outlining with lines)

Derivation:

mark (make or leave a mark on)

 Context examples 

The colors are white, golden, tan or gray with black markings, in either solid or mixed colors.

(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)

They both come in sable and white, tri-color (black, white and tan), blue merle or predominantly white with sable, tri-color or blue merle markings.

(Collie, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat comes in solid black, liver or red or parti-color combinations of white with black, liver or red markings or ticking.

(English Cocker Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

The blue speckled is with or without black, blue or tan markings on the head with tan points.

(Australian Cattle Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

They imaged UV-green colored objects that mice commonly encounter and found that urine markings (used for social communication in mice) and plant seeds (a food source) were easier to distinguish.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

Mars has not been in Capricorn for two years, so this is an important period for you, marking the start of a new two-year cycle.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Researchers think the shredded star was a white dwarf - a hot, roughly Earth-sized stellar remnant marking the final state of stars like our Sun.

(Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes, NASA)

Some dogs have tan markings, and some are roan (speckled).

(Field Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

The coat color may be red-brown, or a yellowish-red with some white markings.

(Finnish Spitz, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually has small white markings on the feet, chest, tail, tip, and sometimes face.

(Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)