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MARKS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
Synonyms:
First Baron Marks of Broughton; Marks; Simon Marks
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb mark
Context examples:
How many marks are on that paper?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her three suitors all bore the marks of her teeth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It will be of no use your rubbing yourselves; you won't rub the marks out that I shall give you.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Phosphorylation of IkB by kinases (IKBKA or IKBKB) marks them for ubiquitination, allowing NF-kB translocation to the nucleus and DNA binding at kappa-B transcription enhancer motifs.
(NF-kB, NCI Thesaurus)
There were the pencilled marks and memorandums on the wainscot by the window. He had done it.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It marks the Knights of Santiago, and I see by his flag that their grand-master rides at their head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The completed activity which marks a common administrative landmark for a study subject in the course of a study.
(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The completed activity which marks a study subject-specific, protocol-defined point in the course of a study.
(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus)
This phase marks the start of physical, physiological and psychological changes that characterize pubertal growth and development.
(Early Adolescence, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by a sensation of cold that often marks a physiologic response to sweating after a fever.
(Chills, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
