different between marking vs postmark

marking

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m??k??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??k??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)k??

Verb

marking

  1. present participle of mark

Noun

marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)

  1. The action of marking.
  2. A mark.
  3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
  4. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

Derived terms

  • marking blue
  • marking error
  • marking fire
  • marking out
  • price marking
  • submarking

marking From the web:

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postmark

English

Etymology

Compound of post +? mark.

Pronunciation

Noun

postmark (plural postmarks)

  1. A marking made by a postal service on a letter, package, postcard or the like, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, and often serving to cancel a postage stamp.
    • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
      He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."

Translations

Verb

postmark (third-person singular simple present postmarks, present participle postmarking, simple past and past participle postmarked)

  1. To apply a postmark on.

Translations

postmark From the web:

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  • what does poshmark do
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  • what does postmark deadline mean
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