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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
mark down en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To reduce the price of.
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(transitive) To write a memorandum about.
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(transitive) To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
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(transitive) To write down.
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(transitive) To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.
2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9:
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