单词 | to mark off |
释义 | > as lemmasto mark off to mark off 1. transitive. To measure off, demarcate; (Engineering, Shipbuilding, etc.) to divide into measured sections for subsequent cutting, machining, alignment, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measure [verb (transitive)] > measure or mark off gaugec1420 dimension1754 to mark off1803 society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > mark out [verb (transitive)] > mark position or boundaries of locate1739 to mark off1803 1803 T. Jefferson Addr. to Brothers of Choctaw Nation 17 Dec. in Writings (1984) 559 You have spoken, brothers, of the lands which your fathers formerly sold and marked off to the English. 1879 R. A. Sterndale Afghan Knife III. xvii. 289 The English officer took out a case map and unfolded it, marking off the distances with a pair of compasses. 1894 W. J. Lineham Text-bk. Mech. Engin. vi. 185 If the work is too large to mark-off on a table it should be levelled, and all lines be drawn by reference to an ideal horizontal or vertical plane. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 853/2 The course for sprinting races..is marked off in lanes for the individual runners by means of cords stretched upon short iron rods. 1925 F. J. Drover Marine Engin. Repairs xix. 120 The cheeks are marked off for thickness. 1966 J. H. Dixon tr. V. K. Dormidontov Shipbuilding Technol. i. 15 Hull details are marked off from the full-size or scaled down lofting data and from working drawings. 1992 National Trust Mag. Spring 34/2 The remains of a ‘ring-garth’ wall, which, in medieval times, marked off the open, grazed fell from the enclosed..land. 2. transitive. To distinguish or separate from something else. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from to-partc1325 dividec1380 separate1526 decide1570 discoast1583 shut1697 mark1706 to shut off1833 to mark off1848 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lv. 553 He was marked off from the living world, and going down into his grave. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 264 The Popular Tale is thus marked off by features of its own from ordinary stories. 1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 16 He marks off the Semites from them very decidedly. 1912 J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom iii. 80 Those bodies [sc. chromosomes] which taken together appear to determine the characteristics of the offspring, or at least those which mark off from others of the same species. 1956 A. S. C. Ross in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 91 The upper class is clearly marked off from the others. 1987 W. Raeper George MacDonald xxviii. 306 MacDonald's intention to write for the childlike, and not just for children, marks him off from many other nineteenth-century children's writers. 3. transitive. To cancel with a mark or line as passed, dealt with, etc. Also figurative.Cf. tick v.1 3a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with ticks prick1536 to check off1839 tick1854 to mark off1875 tick-off1934 1875 H. James Roderick Hudson iv, in Atlantic Monthly Apr. 423/2 The monotonous days..seemed to Rowland's fancy to follow each other like the tick-tick of a great time-piece, marking off the hours. 1919 G. B. Shaw Great Catherine i, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 139 He marks off the items of his statement with ridiculous stiff gestures. 1945 H. D. in Life & Lett. To-day May 67 I counted the days and marked them off, calculating the weeks. 1984 New Yorker 9 Apr. 43/1 My time was good only for marking off the calendar, and I lived for his return. < as lemmas |
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