marking.
The action of marking.
Meaning & usage
The action of marking.
A mark.
The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object.
The markings on the plane identified it as belonging to law enforcement.
Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
present participle and gerund of mark
Where this word comes from
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.