Hallmark vs Earmarks - What's the difference?
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A distinguishing characteristic.
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An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
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To provide or stamp with a hallmark.
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To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
(by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
(US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
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As verbs the difference between hallmark and earmarks
is that hallmark is to provide or stamp with a hallmark while earmarks is (earmark).As a noun hallmark
is a distinguishing characteristic.hallmark
English
Noun
(wikipedia hallmark) (en noun)citation, page= , passage=Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.}}
- It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked .}}
earmarks
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Verb
(head)earmark
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(wikipedia earmark)Verb
(en verb)- You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
Noun
(en noun)- Money is said to have no earmark .
- A set of intellectual ideas have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor.