Note
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. To denote; to designate To annotate To set down in musical characters.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Use. Utility, profit, advantage. Affair, matter, concern. An event, occasion. Business, usually needful in nature; Expedition, undertaking, enterprise. Need. —Chaucer. Conflict; Fray. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. A short informal letter; a billet. A diplomatic missive or written communication. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. A piece of paper money; a banknote. A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. A key of the piano or organ. Observation; notice; heed. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
Example sentence: Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Mark
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To indicate in some way for later reference.To take note of.To blemish, scratch, or stain.To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: boundary, land in a boundary# A boundary; a border or frontier.# A boundary-post or fence.# A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.#* 1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:#*: I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.# A type of small region or principality.#* 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers:#*: There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.# A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.characteristic, sign, visible impression# An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.#* 1813, Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice:#*: depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.# A characteristic feature.#: A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.# A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.#* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:#*: Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip [...].# A sign or brand on a person.#: The Antichrist will show the mark of the beast.# A written character or sign.#: The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.# A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.#: With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.# Resemblance, likeness, image.#* ca. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale', Canterbury Tales:#*: Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.# A particular design or make of an item .#: Presenting...my patented travelator, mark two.# A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such point gained as out of a possible total.#: What mark did you get in your history test?indicator of position, objective etc.# A target for shooting at with a projectile.#* 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:#*: To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.# An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.#: I filled the bottle up to the 500ml mark.# The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.# The female genitals.#* 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, I.4:#*: A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.# A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.# The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.# A score for a sporting achievement.# A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.#: Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.attention# Attention, notice.#: His last comment is particularly worth of mark.# Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier "of mark".)#* 1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:#*: in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver), equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence.Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and 2002, equal to 100 pfennigs.A mark coin.
Example sentence: It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.