Word Meanings - SEMICOLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The punctuation mark indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.
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- MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - DISTINCTNESS
1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated - COMMARK
The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - MARKETER
One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market. - MARKETSTEAD
A market place. Drayton. - DISTINCTURE
Distinctness. - DISTINCTIVENESS
State of being distinctive. - MARK
A license of reprisals. See Marque. - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - DISTINCTIVE
1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne. - INDICATOR
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at - MARKSMAN
One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. - INDICATIVELY
In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify. - MARKABLE
Remarkable. Sandys. - COMMATISM
Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley. - MARKIS
A marquis. Chaucer. - DISTINCTION
1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from - MARKER
One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - CONTRADISTINCT
Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin. - UNDISTINCTLY
Indistinctly. - BOOKMARK
Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate. - REMARKER
One who remarks. - FOOTMARK
A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge. - SWANMARK
A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit. - NEWMARKET
A long, closely fitting cloak. - INDISTINCTION
Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being - TORSION INDICATOR
An autographic torsion meter. - COUNTERMARK
An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark