Word Meanings - DENOTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to DENOTATION)

• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• MARKSMAN
  One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• MARKABLE
  Remarkable. Sandys.
• MARKIS
  A marquis. Chaucer.
• MARKER
  One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An
• MARKISESSE
  A marchioness. Chaucer.
• MARKEE
  See MARQUEE
• MARKED
  Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it,
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• MARKMAN
  A marksman. Shak.
• MARKET
  The privelege granted to a town of having a public market. Note: Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market
• MARKETING
  1. The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market. 2. Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
• MARKSMANSHIP
  Skill of a marksman.
• MARKHOOR
  A large wild goat , having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.
• MARKING
  The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage. Marking ink, indelible ink, because used in marking linen. -- Marking nut , the nut
• SEPARATION
  The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• SWANMARK
  A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• COUNTERMARK
  An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
• POCKMARKED
  Marked by smallpox; pitted.
• RE-MARK
  To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.
• HALL-MARK
  The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers.