Step vs Mark - What's the difference?
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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
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* Home the swain retreats, His flock before him stepping to the fold. —
(figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
* They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity. — (Alexander Pope)
To set, as the foot.
(nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step ; to erect.
* 1898 , (Joseph Conrad),
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
*Sir (Henry Wotton) (1568-1639)
*:The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
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A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
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The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress.
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*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
A small space or distance.
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A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
A gait; manner of walking.
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*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
*:Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step .
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)
*:Beware of desperate steps . The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
*(George Washington Cable) (1844-1925)
*:I have lately taken steps to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
(lb) A walk; passage.
*(John Dryden)
*:Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
(lb) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
(lb) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
(lb) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
(lb) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
(lb) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
:Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala , a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
(lb) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
:(William Kingdon Clifford)
(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.
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#*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
To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
To indicate in some way for later reference.
To take note of.
* Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 37
To blemish, scratch, or stain.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
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, title= To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
(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.
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:
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:
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.
(imperative, marching) (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command ).
Step is a related term of mark.
As nouns the difference between step and mark
is that step is stitch while mark is sign.step
English
Verb
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment.
Derived terms
* step aside (to walk a little distance from the rest; to retire from company) * step down * step forth (to move or come forth) * step forward * step in/step into * step-in * step out ** (military) To increase the length, but not the rapidity, of the step, extending it to thirty-tree inches ** To go out for a short distance or a short time * step short (military) (to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules) * step off (to measure by steps, or paces; hence, to divide, as a space, or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers) * step upNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* strideDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun "step") * in step * out of step * step by step * stepwise * Back step', ' Half step , etc. See under back, half, etc. * Step grate : a form of grate for holding fuel, in which the bars rise above one another in the manner of steps. * To take steps : to take action; to move in a matter. * one step at a time: slowly and cautiouslySee also
* step-Statistics
*Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----mark
English
(wikipedia mark)Alternative forms
* marke (obsolete) * merk (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mark, merk, merke, from (etyl) . Compare march.Noun
(en noun)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 markVerb
(en verb)- to mark a box or bale of merchandise
- to mark clothing with one's name
- This monument marks the spot where Wolfe died.
- His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
- Mark the perfect man.
- See where this pencil has marked the paper.
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- to mark the points in a game of billiards or a card game
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 spotEtymology 2
From (etyl) mark, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks .
Synonyms
* (German currency) (l), (l), (l)See also
* convertible mark * Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark * markka * ReichsmarkEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- Mark time, mark !
- Forward, mark !