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markmark1 /mɑrk/ noun 1 
a mark on something that spoils its appearance► mark a dirty area on something that makes it look bad: His shoes left dirty marks all over the floor. What is that black mark on your T-shirt?
► spot a small round mark on a surface, especially one that is made by a liquid: There were a few spots of blood on his shirt.
► stain a mark that is difficult to remove: There was a dark red stain on the carpet, where someone had spilled a glass of wine. You should wash the shirt right away or the tea will leave a stain.
► smudge a dirty mark that is made when something soft or a liquid is rubbed against a surface: There were smudges on his homework paper where his hand had rubbed the ink.
► smear a mark that is made by a small amount of something that is spread across a surface: The table had a smear of paint on the top.
► track a mark left on the ground or another surface by a moving person, animal, or vehicle: When the dog ran away, he left wet tracks on the sidewalk. There were tire tracks in the sand leading to the water.
2 a mark on someone's skin► freckle one of several small light brown marks on someone’s skin, usually on the face and arms. Some light-skinned people get freckles when they spend time in the sun: She is a cute little girl with freckles across her nose and cheeks.
► mole a small dark brown mark on someone’s skin that is slightly higher than the skin around it: She has a small mole above her eyebrow.
► scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you: He has a bad scar on his ear where a dog once bit him.
► bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit. Bruises usually go away in a few days or weeks: She came home from soccer practice with a big bruise on her knee.
► wart a small hard raised mark on your skin that is not nice to look at. A wart is caused by a virus (=a living thing that causes an illness): She went to the doctor to have a wart on her hand removed.
► pimple also zit (informal) a small raised red mark on your skin that teenagers often have. Zit is more common in everyday English, and pimple sounds slightly more formal: He looked in the mirror and saw he had a pimple on his face. I always get zits just before I go to a party.
► blemish a mark on your skin that spoils the way it looks. Blemish sounds fairly formal: The makeup will hide any blemishes on your face.
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markmark2 /mɑrk/ verb ➔ see celebrate, dirty (2)