MARKED


Meaning of MARKED in English

|märkt, |mȧkt adjective

1.

a. : having a mark

a marked card

a marked coin

dotted with marked boulders and other memorials of historic interest — American Guide Series: Texas

b. : having a mark of a specified kind — usually used in combination

a scar- marked lad

2. : having a distinctive or strongly pronounced character : noticeable

spoke … with a marked American accent — Nevil Shute

a marked feature of these occasions — Encyc. Americana

have a marked capacity for industrial work — Current Biography

found him of a very marked physiognomy — Bram Stoker

— often used in combination

there is no well- marked nervous system — Encyc. Americana

3.

a. : being a person on whom attention or interest is focused : enjoying fame or notoriety

this small staff made the editor a marked man — F.L.Mott

b. : being an object of attack, suspicion, or vengeance

a marked man to the British — American Guide Series: Massachusetts

4. : overtly signaled by a linguistic feature

with most English nouns the plural is the marked number

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.