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A surface cut or abrasion.
"The boy got a small scotch on his knee while playing soccer. "
One who has been branded as punishment.
"Having served his time, the stigmatic now struggled to find work, forever marked by his past crime. "
To mark permanently, as if by burning.
"The events of that day were seared into her memory."
A spot, stain, or blemish.
"The old book had several brown taches on its cover from years of use. "
To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
"The police used cones to demarcate the accident scene. "
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
"silk of the first chop"
A curved stroke or shape.
"The fancy writing on the wedding invitation had lots of decorative curls. "
A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
"The ancient Greek texts were difficult to read because they lacked breathings, requiring the reader to guess where to aspirate certain vowels. "
To mark a surface with such images.
"Teenagers sometimes graffitis underpasses with spray paint, leaving colorful but illegal art. "
A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
"The Vietnamese teacher explained the use of the horn diacritical mark over the letter o to form the letter ơ. "
To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.
"The art student was cross-hatching the apple in her drawing to create shadows and depth. "
To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
"The setting sun crests the freshly plowed field, leaving streaks of golden light. "
A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
"The teacher explained that breves are used to indicate short vowel sounds in the phonetic transcription exercise. "
To groove; indent.
"The carpenter was chasing a groove into the wooden board with his chisel. "
A very thin fissure.
"While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls."
The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
"The cancellation mark had a thin black frame around it. "
(sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
"Please strike the last sentence."
A passage having this mark.
"The sheet music was covered in Italian terms, including several accelerandos indicating where the tempo should speed up. "
A scratch or a score.
"The pencil left a faint rat on the paper. "
Marked with dots or spots, spotted.
"The robin's eggs were beautifully speckled with brown dots. "
