Put vs Mark - What's the difference?
put | mark |
To place something somewhere.
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, chapter=20 To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
(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 ).
In obsolete terms the difference between put and mark
is that put is a prostitute while mark is regard; respect.As verbs the difference between put and mark
is that put is to place something somewhere while mark is to put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.As nouns the difference between put and mark
is that put is a right to sell something at a predetermined price while mark is Boundary, land within a boundary.As an acronym PUT
is acronym of Parameterized Unit Testing|lang=en.As an initialism PUT
is initialism of lang=en|programmable unijunction transistor.As a proper noun Mark is
a given name derived from Latin.As an abbreviation Mark is
abbreviation of Markarian|lang=en.put
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
Etymology 3
(etyl) pute.Statistics
*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 !