marked

adj
/mɑːkt/UK/mɑɹkt/US

Etymology

From mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed. Less common disyllabic pronunciation (/ˈmɑː.kɪd/) is likely an analogy derived from markedness (explaining its restriction to sense 2).

  1. derived from *mórǵs
  2. derived from *markō
  3. derived from *marku
  4. derived from mearc
  5. derived from mark
  6. formed as marked — “mark + -ed

Definitions

  1. Having a visible or identifying mark.

  2. Clearly evident

    Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.

    • The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
    • In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
    • The drop in merchandise and mineral receipts again reflects the fall in steel output, most marked in the North-East; […].
  3. Distinguished by a positive feature.

    • "Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".
  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. Singled out

      Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.

      • A marked man.
    2. In police livery, as opposed to unmarked. (of a police vehicle)

    3. simple past and past participle of mark

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at marked. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at marked. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at marked

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA