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1. English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
   - Simon Marks, First Baron Marks of Broughton

1. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
   "she made good marks in algebra";
   - grade, score
    
2. A distinguishing symbol
   "the owner's mark was on all the sheep";
   - marker, marking
    
3. A reference point to shoot at
   "his arrow hit the mark";
   - target
    
4. A visible indication made on a surface
   "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks";
   - print
    
5. The impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember
   "it was in London that he made his mark"; "he left an indelible mark on the American theatre"
    
6. A symbol of disgrace or infamy
   "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain";
   - stigma, brand, stain
    
7. A written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
   "his answer was just a punctuation mark"
    
8. A perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
   "he showed marks of strain";
   - sign
    
9. An indication of damage
   - scratch, scrape, scar
    
10. A marking that consists of lines that cross each other
    - crisscross, cross
     
11. Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
    "hit the mark";
    - bell ringer, bull's eye, home run
     
12. [US, informal] A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
    - chump [informal], fool, gull [informal], patsy [N. Amer, informal], fall guy [N. Amer, informal], sucker [informal], soft touch, mug [informal]
     
13. Formerly the basic unit of money in Germany
    - German mark, Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, D-mark

1. Attach a tag or label to
   "mark these bottles";
   - tag, label
    
2. Designate as if by a mark
   "This sign marks the border"
    
3. Be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
   "His modesty marks him from his peers";
   - distinguish, differentiate
    
4. Celebrate by some ceremony or observation
   "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade";
   - commemorate
    
5. Make or leave a mark on
   "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"
    
6. Accuse or condemn openly or formally; classify or describe as disgraceful
   "She was marked by society because she had a child out of wedlock";
   - stigmatize, stigmatise [Brit], brand, denounce, denunciate
    
7. Detect and remember; perceive with the mind
   "mark my words";
   - notice, note
    
8. Mark with a scar
   "The skin disease marked his face permanently";
   - scar, pock, pit
    
9. Make small marks into the surface of
   "mark the clay before firing it";
   - score, nock
    
10. Establish as the highest level or best performance
    "mark a record";
    - set
     
11. Make underscoring marks
    - score
     
12. Remove from a list
    - cross off, cross out, strike out, strike off
     
13. Put a check mark on, near or next to
    "mark off the units";
    - check, check off, mark off, tick off [Brit, Cdn, informal], tick [Brit]
     
14. Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
    "mark homework";
    - grade, score
     
15. Insert punctuation marks into
    - punctuate

Sounds like: mark, marque, marks, marques, m

See also: mark off

Type of: add, alter, appraise, assess, attach, bespeak, betoken [archaic], blemish, businessman, celebrate, change, characterise [Brit], characterize, clew [archaic], clue, deface, defect, disfigure, dupe, effect, enter, establish, evaluate, evaluation, fish out [informal], German monetary unit, impression, indicant, indicate, indication, keep, label, lay down, make, man of affairs, mar, marking, measure, modify, notch, observe, point, point of reference, printed symbol, put down, qualify, rating, record, reference, reference point, scope, signal, success, symbol, take away, take out, valuate, valuation, value, verify, victim, written symbol

Antonym: ignore

Encyclopedia: Marks, Paul