Marked vs Singular - What's the difference?
marked | singular | Synonyms |
Having a visible or identifying mark.
# Of a playing card: having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
(linguistics) Of a word, form, or phoneme: distinguished by a positive feature.
singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
(mark)
Being only one of a larger population.
Being the only one of the kind; unique.
* Addison
* Chaucer
Distinguished by superiority; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional.
Out of the ordinary; curious.
* Denham
* Milton
(grammar) Referring to only one thing or person.
(linear algebra, of matrix) Having no inverse.
(linear algebra, of transformation) Having the property that the matrix of coefficients of the new variables has a determinant equal to zero.
(set theory, of a cardinal number) Not equal to its own .
(legal) Each; individual.
(obsolete) Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
* Holinshed
Marked is a synonym of singular.
As adjectives the difference between marked and singular
is that marked is while singular is singular (linear algebra: of matrix: having no inverse).marked
English
Etymology 1
From (mark) (noun)Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
- e.g. in author'' and ''authoress , the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.
- A marked man.
Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes written , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.Etymology 2
See (mark) (verb)Verb
(head)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----singular
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Alternative forms
* (abbreviation):Adjective
(en adjective)- A singular experiment cannot be regarded as scientific proof of the existence of a phenomenon.
- She has a singular personality.
- These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind.
- And God forbid that all a company / Should rue a singular man's folly.
- (Francis Bacon)
- a man of singular gravity or attainments
- It was very singular ; I don't know why he did it.
- So singular a sadness / Must have a cause as strange as the effect.
- His zeal / None seconded, as out of season judged, / Or singular and rash.
- to convey several parcels of land, all and singular
- to try the matter thus together in a singular combat