marking

• branding
• calling
• captioning
• characterizing
• chronicling
• customizing
• designating
• differentiating
• distinguishing
• earmarking
• enregistering
• entering
• entitling
• hallmarking
• identifying
• individualizing
• inscribing
• labeling
• labelling
• logging
• minuting
• naming
• notching
• noting
• particularizing
• putting down
• recording
• registering
• reporting
• scoring
• setting down
• stamping
• stigmatizing
• styling
• tabbing
• tagging
• taking down
• terming
• ticketing
• titling
• transcribing
• writing down

• verb
  1. To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
  2. To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
  3. To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  4. To create an indication of (a location).
  5. To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
  6. To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
  7. To create (a mark) on a surface.
  8. To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
  9. (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
  10. (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
  11. (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
  12. To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
  13. To be typical or characteristic of (something).
  14. To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
  15. To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
  16. To become aware of (something) through the physical senses.
  17. To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
  18. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
  19. To record that (someone) has a particular status.
  20. To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
  21. To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
  22. To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
  23. To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
  24. To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
• noun
  1. The action of the verb to mark.
  2. A mark.
  3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
  4. Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

• He spent the afternoon marking essays for his class.
• The road crew finished marking the lanes with fresh paint.
• She used a pen for marking important dates on the calendar.
• The ceremony ended with the bell marking the start of the new year.
• The tiger has a unique marking on its forehead.

earmark

keeping a lookout for

• attending
• beholding
• discerning
• heeding
• marking
• minding
• noticing
• noting
• observing
• perceiving
• seeing
• waring
• watching

keeping to

labeling

labelling

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