A Quick and Simple Dictionary

mark

1. Proper noun.  (given name, male) .
2. Proper noun.  (biblical character) Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, first patriarch of Alexandria and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.
3. Proper noun.  (biblical) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.
4. Noun.  boundary, land in a boundary.
5. Noun.  characteristic, sign, visible impression.
6. Noun.  indicator of position, objective etc.
7. Noun.  attention.
8. Verb.  To indicate in some way for later reference.
9. Verb.  To take note of.
10. Verb.  To blemish, scratch, or stain.
11. Verb.  To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
12. Verb.  (context, 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.
13. Verb.  (sport) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
14. Verb.  (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
15. Noun.  A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
16. Noun.  (historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one '''mark''' weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.
17. Noun.  Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.
18. Noun.  A '''mark''' coin.