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Princeton's WordNet

  1. marked, pronouncedadjective

    strongly marked; easily noticeable

    "walked with a marked limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon"

  2. markedadjective

    singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate

    "a marked man"

  3. markedadjective

    having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination

    "played with marked cards"; "a scar-marked face"; "well-marked roads"

Wikipedia

  1. Marked

    In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common. In a marked–unmarked relation, one term of an opposition is the broader, dominant one. The dominant default or minimum-effort form is known as unmarked; the other, secondary one is marked. In other words, markedness involves the characterization of a "normal" linguistic unit against one or more of its possible "irregular" forms. In linguistics, markedness can apply to, among others, phonological, grammatical, and semantic oppositions, defining them in terms of marked and unmarked oppositions, such as honest (unmarked) vs. dishonest (marked). Marking may be purely semantic, or may be realized as extra morphology. The term derives from the marking of a grammatical role with a suffix or another element, and has been extended to situations where there is no morphological distinction. In social sciences more broadly, markedness is, among other things, used to distinguish two meanings of the same term, where one is common usage (unmarked sense) and the other is specialized to a certain cultural context (marked sense). In psychology, the social science concept of markedness is quantified as a measure of how much one variable is marked as a predictor or possible cause of another, and is also known as Δp (deltaP) in simple two-choice cases. See confusion matrix for more details.

ChatGPT

  1. marked

    Marked refers to something that is clearly noticeable or distinct, often characterized by visible signs, indications, or symbols. It may also refer to something that has been targeted or selected for a particular purpose. The term can be applicable to various contexts, including language, social sciences, mathematics, or biology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Marked

    of Mark

  2. Markedadjective

    designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance

Wikidata

  1. Marked

    Marked is the first novel of the House of Night fantasy series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. Young teenagers are selected to enter a four-year period transformation to a vampyre and marked with an the unfilled mark of a crescent moon. Those are sent to their local Houses of Night, private schools directed by vampyres, specialized in helping the adolescents, called fledglings, survive the Change. Young fledgling Zoey is unusual: unlike other normal fledglings, she bears a filled mark, a sign that the goddess of vampyres, Nyx, has bestowed a great destiny onto her, but she also has to deal with normal highschool girl issues:school, boyfriends and the evil popular girl waiting just around the corner. The book has been translated into more than 20 languages including French, Spanish, German and Chinese.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'marked' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2755

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'marked' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3583

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'marked' in Adjectives Frequency: #583

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Anagrams for marked »

  1. demark

  2. demark

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of marked in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of marked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of marked in a Sentence

  1. Michael Ellerin:

    It marked the beginning of an altered, diminished, heartbreaking life.

  2. Kevin Lings:

    Next year is going to be marked by consistent uncertainty around the currency and bond markets, it's going to put South Africa under a lot of strain.

  3. Toto Wolff:

    Every great Formula One season is marked by a great rivalry. Last year it was our internal battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico and this year it seems that the fight is on between Ferrari and Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian, as calm as it started, it was only a matter of time until the rivalry would eventually become more fierce and controversial. That moment happened in Baku and we saw the results of that tension on track.

  4. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

    According to our information, the enemy marked me as the number one target. My family is the number two target.

  5. Tom Sanders:

    It is already well known that within this cohort there were marked differences in health according to their social position, with the higher grades of civil servants having better health and the lowest grades having the worst health, what we don't know is anything about the nutritional quality of the diets and the linkage of dietary choice with other aspects of lifestyle such as smoking and alcohol intake.

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