单词 | mark off |
释义 | mark off1. phrasal verb If you mark off a piece or length of something, you make it separate, for example by putting a line on it or around it. He used a rope to mark off the circle. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Read the text through and mark off the sections you find particularly applicable. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb If a particular quality or feature marks someone or something off from other people or things, it is unusual and makes them obviously different. Her clothes, of course, marked her off from a great number of the delegates at theconference. [V n P + from] Traditionalist influences within the navy marked it off as a rather old-fashionedinstitution. [V n P + as] 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for markIf you mark off a date on a calendar or an item on a list, you put a line through it or next to it, in order to show that it has been completed or dealt with. He marked off the days on a calendar. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Miss Hoare called out names and marked them off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] mark off in American English or mark out to mark the limits of; demarcate Examples of 'mark off' in a sentence |
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