MARK

'Mark' may refer to:

Contents

Common name

Christianity

Currency

Geography

Catching a ball

Technology

Measurement

Business

Mythology

Other

See also

Common name

★ Mark (given name), common male given name, from the Latin origin meaning defender

Christianity

★ Curse and mark of Cain, Cain's inability to cultivate crops and the necessity that he led a nomadic lifestyle

★ Gospel of Mark, one of the books of the Bible, and the apocryphal Secret Gospel of Mark

★ Mark the Evangelist (Saint Mark)

★ Mark of the Beast, a sign or number mentioned in the Book of Revelation

★ St Mark's Basilica, the most famous of the churches of Venice and an example of Byzantine architecture

Currency

★ German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914

★ German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1924

★ German Reichsmark, German coinage from 1924 to 1948

★ German mark, official currency of Germany from 1948 to 2001

★ East German Mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990

★ Polish marka, Polish currency from 1917 to 1924

★ Mark (money), a unit of currency in various countries

Geography

★ Mark, or march, the border territory of a country

★ Mark (county): see County of the Mark

★ Mark (Dender)

★ Mark (Dintel)

★ Mark Hundred in Sweden

★ Mark Municipality in Sweden

Catching a ball

In both Australian rules football and rugby union, a clean catch from a kick by another player results in a free kick. See:

★ Mark (Australian football)

★ Mark (rugby)

Technology

★ Harvard Mark I, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA

★ Mark (designation), level of development

★ Mark frequency, extreme discrete value of frequency-shift keying

Measurement

★ Mark (weight), an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies

Business

★ Service mark, trademark used to identify a service rather than a product

★ Trade mark, distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to uniquely identify itself and its products and services

Mythology

★ Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend

Other

★ Beauty mark, dark mole on the face or other part of the body that is considered to be attractive

★ Diacritical mark, mark added to a letter to alter a word's pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words

★ Mark of Rohan, fictional realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. See also Marches.

★ Mark, a grade awarded to students' work

★ Mark (victim), the victim of a con game or an assassination

★ Merchant's Mark

★ Sea mark, pilotage aid which identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard and administrative area

★ Mark Scheme, Guide used to grade assignments submitted to the IB Program

★ Markedness, a linguistic term

See also

★ Marks