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As nouns the difference between mark and form

is that mark is sign while form is shape.

mark

English

(wikipedia mark)

Alternative forms

* marke (obsolete) * merk (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mark, merk, merke, from (etyl) . Compare march.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  • #(obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.
  • #(obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.
  • #A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
  • #*1859 , Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes :
  • #*:I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.
  • #(archaic) A type of small region or principality.
  • #*1954 , J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers :
  • #*:There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.
  • #(historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
  • (label) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
  • #An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
  • #*1813 , Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice :
  • #*:depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.
  • #A characteristic feature.
  • #:A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.
  • #*1643 , Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici :
  • #*:there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.
  • #A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
  • #*1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula :
  • #*:Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip.
  • #A sign or brand on a person.
  • #*, III.iv.2.6:
  • #*:Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be.
  • #A written character or sign.
  • #:The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.
  • #A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
  • #:With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.
  • #*Knight
  • #*:The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.
  • #(obsolete) Resemblance, likeness, image.
  • #*c.1380 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
  • #*:Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk .
  • #A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
  • #:Presentingmy patented travelator, mark two.
  • #A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total.
  • #:What mark did you get in your history test?
  • (label) Indicator of position, objective etc.
  • #A target for shooting at with a projectile.
  • #*, II.1:
  • #*:A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.
  • #*1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , p.37:
  • #*:To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark', except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his '''mark''' at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any ' mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.
  • #An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
  • #:I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark .
  • #The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
  • #(obsolete) The female genitals.
  • #*1596 , William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost , I.4:
  • #*:A mark' saies my Lady. Let the ' mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.
  • #*1749 , John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , Penguin, 1985, p.68:
  • #*:her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his.
  • #(Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
  • #(sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
  • #A score for a sporting achievement.
  • #
  • #*1871 , Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report (vol.17, p.102)
  • #*:A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark.
  • #(cooking) A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
  • #:Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.
  • #Limit or standard of action or fact.
  • #:to be within the mark''';  to come up to the '''mark
  • #Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
  • #*Shakespeare
  • #*:In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.
  • #(archaic) Preeminence; high position.
  • #:patricians of mark''';  a fellow of no '''mark
  • #(logic) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
  • #(nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
  • (label) Attention.
  • #(archaic) Attention, notice.
  • #:His last comment is particularly worthy of mark .
  • #Importance, noteworthiness.
  • #*1909 , Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel :
  • #*:in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark , the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.
  • #(obsolete) Regard; respect.
  • #*Shakespeare
  • #*:as much in mock as mark
  • Synonyms
    (a particular design or make) * Mk (abbreviation) * (abbreviation)
    Derived terms
    * beauty mark * bench-mark/benchmark * birthmark * black mark * bookmark * certification mark * chatter mark * check mark * chop mark * cue mark * diacritical mark * exclamation mark * full marks * funnel mark * gas mark * hash mark * high-water mark * laundry mark * leave one's mark * make one's mark * markstone * miss the mark * off the mark * on your marks * Plimsoll mark * punctuation mark * question mark * quotation mark * reference mark * remark * ripple mark * scuff mark * sea mark * service mark * strawberry mark * stress mark * stretch mark * tempo mark * touchmark / touch-mark * trade mark / trade-mark / trademark * vaccination mark * wide of the mark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
  • to mark a box or bale of merchandise
    to mark clothing with one's name
  • To indicate in some way for later reference.
  • This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.
    His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
  • To take note of.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 37
  • Mark the perfect man.
  • To blemish, scratch, or stain.
  • See where this pencil has marked the paper.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
  • To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
  • To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
  • to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game
  • (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
  • (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
  • (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
  • Synonyms
    * (indicate correctness and give score) (l), (l)
    Derived terms
    (Terms derived from the verb "mark") * man-mark * mark-down * mark down * marked * marker * marking * mark my words * mark off * mark out * mark time * mark up * mark-up * press-mark * unmarked * X marks the spot

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mark, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
  • * 1997 , Bernard Scudder, translating ‘Egil's Saga’, in The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, p. 91:
  • 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.
  • An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 167:
  • He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks .
  • Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
  • A mark coin.
  • Synonyms
    * (German currency) (l), (l), (l)

    See also

    * convertible mark * Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark * markka * Reichsmark

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imperative, marching) (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command ).
  • Mark time, mark !
    Forward, mark !

    Statistics

    *

    form

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forme (rare or archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • To do with shape.
  • # The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
  • #* 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
  • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric, volume=188, issue=22, page=30
  • , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Urban canopies let nature bloom , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
  • # A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
  • # Characteristics not involving atomic components. (rfex)
  • # (label) A long bench with no back.
  • #* 1981 , (w), (The Book of Ebenezer Le Page) , New York 2007, p. 10:
  • I can see the old schoolroom yet: the broken-down desks and the worn-out forms with knots in that got stuck into your backside.
  • #* 2010 , (Stephen Fry), :
  • The prefect grabbed me by the shoulders and steered me down a passageway, and down another and finally through a door that led into a long, low dining-room crowded with loudly breakfasting boys sitting on long, shiny oak forms , as benches used to be called.
  • # (label) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
  • # (label) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
  • (label) To do with structure or procedure.
  • # An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
  • # Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Those whom form of laws / Condemned to die.
  • # Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
  • # Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Though well we may not pass upon his life / Without the form of justice.
  • # (label) A class or rank in society.
  • #* (w) (1643-1715)
  • ladies of a high form
  • # (label) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
  • #* 2011 , Jane Martinson, The Guardian , 4 May:
  • It's fair to say she has form on this: she has criticised David Cameron's proposal to create all-women shortlists for prospective MPs, tried to ban women wearing high heels at work as the resulting pain made them take time off work, and tried to reduce the point at which an abortion can take place from 24 to 21 weeks.
  • # (label) Level.
  • ## A class or year of students (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in (sixth form)).
  • ##* 1928 , George Bickerstaff, The mayor, and other folk
  • #
    One other day after afternoon school, Mr. Percival came behind me and put his hand on me. "Let me see, what's your name? Which form are you in?"
  • ##* 1976 , Ronald King, School and college: studies of post-sixteen education
  • #
    From the sixth form will come the scholars and the administrators.
  • ## (label) Grade (level of pre-collegiate education).
  • A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
  • (label) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
  • The den or home of a hare.
  • *, II.29:
  • Being one day a hunting, I found a Hare sitting in her forme .
  • *, I.iii.1.2:
  • The Egyptians therefore in their hieroglyphics expressed a melancholy man by a hare sitting in her form , as being a most timorous and solitary creature.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.275:
  • Hares left their snug ‘forms ’ in the cold grass.
  • A window or dialogue box.
  • * 1998 , Gary Cornell, Visual Basic 6 from the ground up (p.426)
  • While it is quite amazing how much one can do with Visual Basic with the code attached to a single form .
  • * Neil Smyth, C# Essentials
  • Throughout this chapter we will work with a form in a new project.
  • (label) An infraspecific rank.
  • The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  • (label) A quantic.
  • Synonyms

    * (shape) ** figure, used when discussing people, not animals ** shape, used on animals and on persons * (blank document) formular * (pre-collegiate level) grade * (biology)

    Derived terms

    * form class * form factor * form feed * form genera * form genus * form letter * form taxon * in form * longform * mid-season form * return to form * shortform * subform * typeform

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To give shape or visible structure to (a thing or person).
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • (lb) To take shape.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}
  • To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
  • :
  • (lb) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • *:the diplomatic politicianswho formed by far the majority
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • *1948 May, Stanley Pashko, “The Biggest Family”, in (w, Boys' Life) , Volume 38, Number 5, Boy Scouts of America, ISSN 0006-8608, p.10:
  • *:Insects form the biggest family group in nature's kingdom, and also the oldest.
  • To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:'Tis education forms the common mind.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.
  • To provide (a hare) with a form.
  • *(Michael Drayton) (1563-1631)
  • *:The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.
  • Statistics

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