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📚 name • entry_id 24965

Mark

/maːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Marco • Marcos
A male given name from Latin.
"And your name?" she said, "I suppose it's quite unremarkable?" "Very funny." "Mark. It could stand as a symbol of a man, for men as a category," she reflected, "but I don't suppos…
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Marcos
Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, the first patriarch of Alexandria, credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
And Barnabas was determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them in Pamphylia, and went not wi…
Evangelio según San Marcos • Marcos
The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 4335

mark

/mɑːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mancha • marca
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip[…].
calificación • nota
Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
What mark did you get in your history test?
marca • venero
Indicator of position, objective etc.
I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark.
punto
Indicator of position, objective etc.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 4337

mark

/mɑːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
marco
Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.
marco
A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’
He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 4336

mark

/mɑːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
marcar
To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
to mark a box or bale of merchandise
to mark clothing with one's name
marcar
To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
See where this pencil has marked the paper.
The floor was marked with wine and blood.
marcar
To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
In her Bible, the words of Christ were marked in red.
Prices are marked on individual items.
anotar • apuntar
To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
Mark my words: that boy’s up to no good.
More are men’s ends mark’d than their lives before:
calificar
To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
The teacher had to spend her weekend marking all the tests.
Under the proposals, an assurance is given that GBR (in the words of the plan) will not be marking its own homework.