What is the name meaning of MARKS. Phrases containing MARKS
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MARKS
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English
English : nickname from Old French maquerel ‘bawd’.English : from Middle English makerel ‘mackerel’ (the fish), hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or a seller of these fish.English : Possibly also from Middle English mackerel ‘red scorch marks (on the skin)’, perhaps a descriptive nickname for someone with a noticeable birthmark.
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English
English : from Middle English pile ‘stake’, ‘post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike’, ‘javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark or a metonymic occupational name for a stake maker or a nickname for a tall strong man.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.
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Tamil
Conquered, A signet, Symbol, With auspicious marks
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Celtic
Marksman.
Boy/Male
Indian
Marksman
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English and Dutch
English and Dutch : patronymic from Mark 1.English : variant of Mark 2.German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : reduced form of Markus, German spelling of Marcus (see Mark 1).
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English
English : variant spelling of Marks.
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Celtic
Marksman.
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English
English : unexplained. It is said to be from Old French dix marcs ‘ten marks’, perhaps denoting a valuation, but this is doubtful.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Conquered, A signet, Symbol, With auspicious marks
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English and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the personal name Mark.
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English
English : habitational name from Marksbury in Somerset (now Avon), which was named in Old English either as ‘Mǣrec’s or Mearc’s stronghold’ (from an Old English male personal name + burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified place’, dative byrig), or as ‘stronghold on a boundary’ (from mearc ‘boundary’, possibly a reference to the Wansdyke, + burh, byrig).
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Indian
Conquered, A signet, Symbol, With auspicious marks
Girl/Female
Indian
Conquered, A signet, Symbol, With auspicious marks
Boy/Male
Hindu
One with auspicious marks
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English
English : of uncertain derivation. Reaney suggests this is from Old French dix mars ‘ten marks’, presumably as a nickname for someone who owed this as a feudal due or paid it in rent.German : variant of the personal name Dietmar (see Dittmar).
Boy/Male
Tamil
One with auspicious marks
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English
English : occupational name for a marksman, from an agent derivative of Middle English schoot(en) ‘to shoot’.Americanized spelling of German and Dutch Schutter.
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Muslim
Marksman
Boy/Male
Celtic
Marksman.
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n.
Skill of a marksman.
n.
One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
v. i.
Casual marks at uncertain distances.
n.
A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
a.
Having blazes, or white marks, on the fore and hind foot of one side, as if marked by trammels; -- said of a horse.
n.
One who marks the time in musical performances.
a.
Having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.
a.
Not surveyed, or designated by marks, limits, or boundaries, as appropriated to some individual, company, or corporation; as, unlocated lands.
n.
Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
n.
A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time.
n.
The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
v. t.
To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
a.
Bearing scars or marks of wounds.
a.
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers.
a.
Having ripple marks.
v. t.
To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
pl.
of Marksman
v. t.
To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
n.
A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.