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Bemark vs Remark - What's the difference?

bemark | remark |

In transitive terms the difference between bemark and remark

is that bemark is to mark or cover with marks; mark up while remark is to mark again (a piece of work).

As verbs the difference between bemark and remark

is that bemark is to mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself while remark is to make a remark or remarks; to comment.

As a noun remark is

act of pointing out or attentively noticing; notice or observation.

bemark

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, rare, or, obsolete) To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself.
  • To mark or cover with marks; mark up.
  • *1960 , Jack Kerouac, Lonesome traveler :
  • [...] commuter frenzy as soon they'll be charging en masse from Market and Sansome buildings on foot and in buses and all well-dressed thru workingman Frisco of Walkup?? truck drivers and even the poor grime-bemarked Third Steet of lost bums [...]

    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.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , 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).