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Markup vs Remark - What's the difference?

markup | remark |

As nouns the difference between markup and remark

is that markup is the notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed while remark is act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

As a verb remark is

to make a remark or remarks; to comment.

markup

English

(wikipedia markup)

Alternative forms

* mark-up

Noun

(en noun)
  • The notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.
  • * 2003 , Creative Commons, Creative Commons GNU GPL
  • You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup :
  • The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
  • You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
  • An increase in price.
  • There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.

    Derived terms

    * markup language * markup rate

    remark

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) remarquer, from ; see mark.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.
  • The expression, in speech or writing, of something remarked or noticed; the mention of that which is worthy of attention or notice; hence, also, a casual observation, comment, or statement; as, a pertinent remark.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a remark or remarks; to comment.
  • To mark in a notable manner; to distinguish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to point out.
  • * Ford
  • Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief.
  • * Milton
  • His manacles remark him; there he sits.
  • To take notice of, or to observe, mentally.
  • *
  • To express in words or writing, as observed or noticed; to state; to say; -- often with a substantive clause
  • He remarked that it was time to go.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mark that replaces another mark.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark again (a piece of work).