What is the difference between mark and key?

As nouns the difference between mark and key

is that mark is boundary, land in a boundary or mark can be a measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout europe, equivalent to 8 oz while key is an object designed to open and close a lock or key can be one of a string of small islands.

As verbs the difference between mark and key

is that mark is to indicate in some way for later reference or mark can be (imperative|marching) (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command ) while key is to fit (a lock) with a key.

As a adjective key is

indispensable, supremely important.

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)

Etymology 3

Verb

(head)

(imperative, marching) (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command ).

Mark time, mark !

Forward, mark !

Statistics

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key

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) keye, kaye, . For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door.

Noun

(en noun)

An object designed to open and close a lock.

* , chapter=13

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.}}

An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.

A crucial step or requirement.

* (John Locke) (1632-1705)

Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books.

* (1809-1892)

who keeps the keys of all the creeds

A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.

A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.

(label) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.

(label) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.

(label) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.

(label) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.

* 1881 , R.L. Stevenson, :

A girl, it is true, has always lived in a glass house among reproving relatives, whose word was law; she has been bred up to sacrifice her judgments and take the key submissively from dear papa; and it is wonderful how swiftly she can change her tune into the husband's.

(label) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.

* (William Cowper) (1731-1800)

You fall at once into a lower key .

(label) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.

(label) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.

(label) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.

(label) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.

* 2000 , "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc.mirc )

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key .

(label) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).

(label) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.

(label) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.

(label) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

(label) Kilogram (though this is more commonly shortened to kay ).

* 2010 , David J. Silas, Da Block (page 41)

So starting with ten keys' of cocaine and two ' keys of heroin, Derrick put his plan in motion. Soon every major drug dealer and gang chief from Chicago Avenue to Evanston was in his pocket.

(label) A piece of wood used as a wedge.

(label) The last board of a floor when laid down.

(label) A keystone.

That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

(rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.

(label) The object used to open or close a lock, often used as a heraldic charge.

Derived terms

(Derived terms) * candidate key * card key * church key * foreign key * keyboard * keycard * key card * keychain, key chain * key fob, keyfob * keyhole * keynote * keypad * keyring, key ring * key signature * keystone * keystroke * keyword * major key * minor key * Morse key * primary key * public-key cryptography * skeleton key * unique key

Adjective

(en adjective)

Indispensable, supremely important.

He is the key player on his soccer team.

* 2007 , Mark H. Moss, Shopping as an Entertainment Experience (page 46)

Lukas intimates that one of Disney's key attractions was "Main Street USA,” which "mimicked a downtown business district just as Southdale" had done.

Important, salient.

She makes several key points.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=

, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.}}

Usage notes

The first meaning is distinguished by the definite article, as seen in the quotations.

Verb

(en verb)

To fit (a lock) with a key.

To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.

To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.

* 1996 January, Garden Dsign Ideas , second printing, (Taunton Press), ISBN 1561580791, page 25,

So I worked on a tissue-paper copy of the perimeter plan, outlining groupings of plants of the same species and keying them with letters for the species.

* 2001 , Bruce M. Metzger, The Bible in Translation , ISBN 0801022827, page 87,

The volume closes with thirty pages of "Notes, critical and explanatory," in which Thomson provides seventy-six longer or shorter notes keyed to specific sections of the synopsis.

* 2002 , Karen Bromley, Stretching Students' Vocabulary , ISBN 0439288398, page 12,

Talk about similarities between the words and write them below to the left of the anchor, keying' them with a plus sign (+). Talk about the characteristics that set the words apart and list them below the box to the right, ' keying them with a tilde sign (~).

* 2007 , Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland and Doris Hall, compilers, The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines , 6th ("2007–2008") edition, ISBN 1884956580, page 757,

Indicate the comparative value of each heading by keying it with a number in pencil, in the left margin, as follows:

(telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).

(radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).

(computing) (more usually to key in ) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.

Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.

(colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.

He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.

To link (as one might do with a key or legend).

* 1960 , Richard L. Masland, "Classification of the Epilepsies", in Epilepsia , volume 1, page 516,

The American Heart Association has prepared their own guide to classification and, keying it with the Standard Nomenclature of Diseases , have done much to encourage a concise yet complete diagnosis.

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(intransitive, biology, chiefly, taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.

To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.

(Francis)

Derived terms

* key in * key off * key out * keyed up

Etymology 2

Variant of cay, from (etyl) cayo.

Alternative forms

* cay

Noun

(en noun)

One of a string of small islands.

"the Florida Keys "

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Noun

(en noun)

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What is the difference between mark and key?

As nouns the difference between mark and key

As verbs the difference between mark and key

As a adjective key is

mark

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key

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