单词 | to mark out |
释义 | > as lemmasto mark out to mark out 1. transitive. To distinguish or characterize for or as something; to choose for a purpose. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose markOE to choose out1297 out-trya1325 cullc1330 welec1330 try1340 walea1350 coil1399 drawa1400 to mark outa1450 electa1513 sorta1535 prick1536 exempta1538 select1567 sort1597 to gather out1611 single1629 delibate1660 to cut out1667 outlooka1687 draught1714 draft1724 to tell off1727 a1450 York Myst. 290 (MED) To go with yone gest, Yhe marke vs out of þe manliest men. 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 82 Presumptuus Philistine! That dost proceed From the base loines of that accursed seed, Branded for slaughter, and mark'd out for death. 1678 N. Lee Mithridates i. i. 11 O, Celestial Powers! Mark me your Subject out for all misfortunes. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 20 That lucky Youth is certainly mark'd out for a Commission. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 169. ¶5 Men whom only themselves would ever have marked out as enriched by uncommon liberalities of nature. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 345 The law will not pass him over, and marks him out, in rei exemplum et infamiam. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. xxiv. 245 Suspected persons were naturally marked out by Mr. Stirn, and reported to his employer. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xviii. 392 The little mantle..had from his earliest years marked him out as an almost royal personage. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 242 The men of Durham, who had been marked out for the slaughter. 1893 H. D. Traill Social Eng. Introd. 48 The country..which had been marked out by destiny to become the greatest manufacturer in the world. 1969 M. Bragg Hired Man (1972) ii. xv. 143 His boots, his cap, his heavy flapping jacket all marked him out as a miner. 1989 M. Coren Gilbert iv. 128 The wit and penetration on display marked the author out as a notable talent. 2. transitive. To stake out, trace out, plot, demarcate, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > mark out [verb (transitive)] to quarter out1600 to mark out1611 point1611 to set offa1647 to set out1653 score1687 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > bound or form boundary of [verb (transitive)] > fix boundary of meteeOE markeOE mereOE bound1393 determinea1398 terminea1398 rede1415 measurea1513 butt1523 space1548 limit1555 determinate1563 to mark out1611 contermine1624 to run out1671 verge1759 demarcate1816 outline1817 define1843 rope1862 delimit1879 delimitate1879 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xliv. 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule:..he marketh it out with the compasse, and maketh it after the figure of a man. View more context for this quotation 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 117 Mark out the Head of your Pond, and make it the highest part of the Ground in the eye, tho' it be the lowest in the true Level. 1702 Mil. Dict. Picket, or Piquet, is a Stake sharp at the end, which serves to mark out the Ground, and Angles of a Fortification, when the Ingenier is laying down the Plan. 1769 O. Goldsmith Rom. Hist. I. 411 This extraordinary man [sc. Julius Caesar]..had from the very beginning of his life marked out a way to universal empire. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xii. 264 To ascend the mountain, where, no doubt, he has been marking out a camp. 1879 R. Browning Martin Relph 78 And all that time stood Rosamund Page..Bandaged about, on the turf marked out for the party's firing-place. 1954 M. Wheeler Archaeol. from Earth viii. 95 The mound is marked out into four quarters by two strings. 1984 N. Annan Leslie Stephen (1986) iv. 130 He had marked out a future for her, quite different from that he had in mind for Stella. 3. transitive. To distinguish from something else. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > individual [verb (transitive)] > distinguish one thing (from another) distinguish1576 to mark out1613 denominate1792 1613 T. Potts Wonderfull Discov. Witches sig. O3v Great was the care and paines of his Lordship, to make triall of the Innocencie of this woman..by an extraordinary meanes of Triall, to marke her out from the rest. 1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica iii. 134 To honour them, and mark them out from those, Who to the publike welfare, now, are foes. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables i. 31 So long as any of the race were to be found, they had been marked out from other men. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. v. xxxii. 34 The reasoning faculty..which marks us out from the animal. 1905 T. E. Harvey Rise of Quakers ii. 10 Her son's serious ways, by which he was marked out from his other brothers and sisters. 1978 V. Brome Jung (1980) i. 22 The irrational side of his nature, which marked Carl Jung out from most of his conforming colleagues. 1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. ii. 133 He was..marked out from the rest by his bedraggled tussore suit, his trouser legs held permanently together by bicycle clips. < as lemmas |
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