Dictionary

mark out en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To mark the boundaries of an area—used of land, wood, metal, etc.—before working upon it.
2. (transitive) To classify.
   • I don't want to be marked out as a failure.
3. (transitive) To obliterate or cancel with a mark.
   • to mark out an item in an account
4. (transitive) To distinguish.
   • The killing of more than 90 journalists in Iraq in 43 months after the invasion was to mark it out as one of the deadliest conflicts to cover. 2007, Naomi Sakr, Arab Television Today:
   • The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people. 1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:

Forms

Translations (12)

pl wytyczać (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · ru размеча́ть (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · ru разме́тить (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · es enmarcar (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · ru разбить (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · uk розміча́ти (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · be разме́ціць (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · pl wytyczyć (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · mi whakaimu (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · be размяча́ць (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · es encuadrar (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it) · uk розмі́тити (to mark the boundaries of an area before working upon it)