marking

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As usual, we voted by marking bubble-shaped spaces on a paper ballot with a black pen.

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Quick take

a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"

noun

a pattern of marks

noun

evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for marking.

noun

a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep"

noun

a pattern of marks

noun

evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do"

noun

the act of making a visible mark on a surface

Example sentences

As usual, we voted by marking bubble-shaped spaces on a paper ballot with a black pen.

I know there are user scripts that both enable collapsing threads and hiding/marking read posts on Hacker News.

You aren't protecting anyone by marking this woman a criminal and you are actively failing to protect her.

But the the corpse of the deleted object in turn holds references to script objects which it has not been marking previously because this C++ object didn't exist anymore when the sweep started.

Here's an ironic aside about the lengths people have gone to to make 1px correspond as closely as possible to a real pixel: As you say, 'marking a button as "width: 1cm" will almost never render something over 1cm of the screen geometry'.