noun
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a mark or series of marks
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the arrangement of colours on an animal, plant, etc
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assessment and correction of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of marking
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at mark 1, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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New York City officials halted construction at 222 Broadway, marking the second office-to-apartment conversion project shut down this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mosaic tile lettering on the floors marking each apartment number is a recreation of the originals.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Compared with the same month last year, Canada’s producer-price index rose 12.4%, marking the 21st straight month of an annual increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Public frustration has mounted following a series of exam irregularities, including the leak of a medical entrance examination paper and problems with an online marking system for high school students.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
A tempo marking that is a word or phrase gives you the composer's idea of how fast the music should feel.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
There have been calls for all AI-generated content to be clearly stamped but other users can then just re-edit the material removing the markings.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The coroner determined that the markings found on her body were consistent with “postmortem insect activity” and were not evidence of strangulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Although the colorful smile like markings make these spiders instantly recognizable, scientists still do not know why they evolved.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The markings anticipated the inverted red triangle that is a symbol of Hamas today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
I studied the front and back, not finding any markings.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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