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Notable vs Marked - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between notable and marked

is that notable is useful; profitable while marked is having a visible or identifying mark.

As a noun notable

is a person or thing of distinction.

As a verb marked is

past tense of mark.

notable

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Useful; profitable.
  • * 1754 , James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign :
    • Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him.
  • Prudent; clever; capable; industrious; thrifty.
  • * 1863 , Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's lovers :
    • Hester looked busy and notable with her gown pinned up behind her, and her hair all tucked away under a clean linen cap; [...]
    Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) notable, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
  • * Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
    • [...] how sayest thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
  • (dated) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
  • * Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
    • A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
    Antonyms
    * non-notable
    Derived terms
    * notability

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing of distinction.
    • Related terms
    * note * of note * noted * notably

    Anagrams

    * ----

    marked

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (mark) (noun)

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a visible or identifying mark.
  • # Of a playing card: having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
  • Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
    • The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
  • (linguistics) Of a word, form, or phoneme: distinguished by a positive feature.
    • e.g. in author'' and ''authoress , the latter is marked for its gender by a suffix.
  • singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
    • 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)
  • (mark)

    • Anagrams

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