What's the difference between mark and scribble?

Mark


Definition:

  • (n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque.
  • (n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc.
  • (n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money; the equivalent of one hundred pfennigs. Also, a silver coin of this value.
  • (n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace.
  • (n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made; a trade-mark.
  • (n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write.
  • (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc.; as, a seamark, a landmark.
  • (n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign; a scratch, scar, stain, etc.; as, this pencil makes a fine mark.
  • (n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence; a significative token; a symptom; a trace; specifically, a permanent impression of one's activity or character.
  • (n.) That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach.
  • (n.) Attention, regard, or respect.
  • (n.) Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark.
  • (n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station.
  • (n.) Preeminence; high position; as, particians of mark; a fellow of no mark.
  • (n.) A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
  • (n.) A number or other character used in registring; as, examination marks; a mark for tardiness.
  • (n.) Image; likeness; hence, those formed in one's image; children; descendants.
  • (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps."
  • (v. t.) To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
  • (v. t.) To be a mark upon; to designate; to indicate; -- used literally and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader.
  • (v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action; as, a pencil marks paper; his hobnails marked the floor.
  • (v. t.) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards.
  • (v. t.) To notice or observe; to give attention to; to take note of; to remark; to heed; to regard.
  • (v. i.) To take particular notice; to observe critically; to note; to remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (2) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (3) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (4) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
  • (5) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (6) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
  • (7) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
  • (8) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
  • (9) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
  • (10) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
  • (11) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (12) Marked enhancement of IFN-gamma production by T cells was seen in the presence of as little as 0.3% thymic DC.
  • (13) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (14) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (15) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
  • (16) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is almost always markedly elevated.
  • (17) Marks out of 10: Enyeama 9 ; Odiah 4 , Shittu 6 , Yobo 6 , Taiwo 4 (Uche 74 6 ); Kaita 4 , Lukman 5 , Etuhu 3 , Obasi 5 (Odemwingie 60 6 ); Yakubu 5 , Obinna 3 (Martins 52 6 )
  • (18) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
  • (19) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
  • (20) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Scribble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
  • (v. t.) To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
  • (v. t.) To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
  • (v. i.) To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.
  • (n.) Hasty or careless writing; a writing of little value; a scrawl; as, a hasty scribble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
  • (2) When he eventually walked to the podium, the typed final version was once more full of crossings out and scribbles.
  • (3) The significance of two handwritten numbers scribbled almost imperceptibly on the back had been overlooked until now.
  • (4) Steve Cole is best known as the ever-scribbling, slightly crazy author of the Astrosaurs book series – featuring dinosaurs in space – as well as Cows in Action and The Slime Squad.
  • (5) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
  • (6) Well, it’s one way to stop your toddlers scribbling on the wall.
  • (7) I remember being so stunned by the figure I scribbled it at the top of my notebook, as a reminder to ask him about it.
  • (8) Jamie Jackson is our man on the Manchester beat and he's been reading Moyes's scribblings for the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to be at Old Trafford tonight.
  • (9) It was time for Mourinho to reach for the hotel scribbling pad to plan for the future and Barcelona to celebrate their superiority in a four-game series that threatened to relocate to the politics pages, and leaves a pile of disciplinary issues still to face.
  • (10) Foremost among them is the unique position of power that officers of the law are placed in, by the role that the scribbled remarks in their logbooks play in defining the facts.
  • (11) Then I saw he had scribbled out a mistake in Jamie's name.
  • (12) It wasn't to scribble compromises on the back of a pizza box.
  • (13) That curve was famously scribbled by Laffer on a napkin over cocktails with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, and helped underpin Reagan’s so-called trickle-down economics – as well as launching Laffer’s career as one of the most influential economists in Republican circles.
  • (14) The envelope on which the calculations were scribbled has apparently been thrown away.
  • (15) A few days earlier Richard Helms, director of the CIA, had scribbled notes on a meeting in Washington with Nixon, Kissinger and John Mitchell, the US attorney general, where the president demanded a coup.
  • (16) Coming back to the novel now, in my early 30s, is like discovering an old diary: in the writing of her four experimental notebooks, Anna puts her politics and personal life under reflexive scrutiny, with constant self-questioning; in the turned-down corners and scribbled margins of certain of those pages, I tried to do the same.
  • (17) Then I ask: “Why are you there?” This time, I get an answer: “Interview requests must be registered in advance, on this side as on yours.” Lines scribbled in my notebook.
  • (18) She hears one of Castro's guerrillas or an Algerian freedom fighter ask "Why aren't you doing something about us, instead of wasting your time scribbling?"
  • (19) As Mr Cowell and Mr Fuller rattled through their idea for an ambitious new show to identify an unknown British singing star, Boyd scribbled notes on two sides of jotting paper during the hour-long meeting.
  • (20) He shakes my hand with a wordless nod and I scribble a brief impression in my notebook: "glazed eyes".