the use of a sign, note, or mark for a word or phrase.

A small sign also was placed to mark the dug hole where Corbett for a time had lived.

A diacritical mark (; also diacritical point, diacritical sign from ancient Greek διά ( dia, through ) and κρίνω ( krinein, to separate ) is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

While the original IPA did not explicitly mark unaspirated consonants, the revised Extensions to the IPA marks them with a superscript equals sign "=", ( e. g., ).

In the morning, they would look for some kind of mark on the ashes as a sign that Brighid had passed that way.

The village sign, bearing two crossed sceptres topped with doves, was erected to mark the coronation of George VI.

The most common quantifiers are the question mark, the asterisk ( derived from the Kleene star ), and the plus sign ( Kleene cross ).

These mark the movement of the Sun along a sidereally fixed zodiac ( precession is ignored ) into Makara, the zodiacal sign which corresponds with Capricorn, and into Karkat, the zodiacal sign which corresponds with Cancer, respectively.

The term, which was spelled semeiotics, derives from the Greek σημειωτικός, ( sēmeiōtikos ), " observant of signs " ( from σημεῖον-sēmeion, " a sign, a mark ") and it was first used in English by Henry Stubbes in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs.

In Holy Baptism, the Church believes that " Baptism is not only a sign of profession and mark of difference whereby Christians are distinguished from others that are not baptized ; but it is also a sign of regeneration or the new birth.

The red Schwenkel on top of the banner had varying interpretations: For the people of Zurich, it was a mark of honour, granted by Rudolph I. Zurich's neighbours mocked it as a sign of shame, commemorating the loss of the banner at Winterthur in 1292.

Cylinder seals were also used to " sign " documents and mark objects as the owner's property.

Unlike Vollaerts, Cardine did not present all the styles of notation to the reader for examination, which means that the reader had no access to certain notations, such as those of Nonantola and Laon, which mark most one-note syllables with a sign indicating a lengthening of duration.

To aid exploration on the field screen, Final Fantasy IX introduces the " field icon ", an exclamation mark appearing over their lead character's head, signalling an item or sign is nearby.

The slash (/) is a sign used as a punctuation mark and for various other purposes.

" It is derived from the Greek words στίγμα stigma " mark, sign " and ἔργον ergon " work, action ", and captures the notion that an agent ’ s actions leave signs in the environment, signs that it and other agents sense and that determine and incite their subsequent actions.

The pilcrow (¶), also called the paragraph mark, paragraph sign, paraph, alinea ( Latin: a lineā, " off the line "), or blind P, is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs.

As a paragraph sign, this mark only appears in older books, commonly found in the Chinese Union Version of the Bible.

The lingam ( also, linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit ल ि ङ ् ग ं,, meaning " mark ", " sign ", " gender ", " phallus ", " inference " or " eternal procreative germ ") is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples.

The Sanskrit term ल ि ङ ् ग ं, transliterated as linga, has diverse meaning ranging from gender and sex to philosophic and religions to uses in common language, such as a mark, sign or characteristic.

One sign of the Pharisaic emphasis on debate and differences of opinion is that the Mishnah and Talmud mark different generations of scholars in terms of different pairs of contending schools.

The lexer would contain rules to tell it that the characters,,, and mark the start of a new token, so meaningless tokens like "" or "" will not be generated.

Depending on the context, this element might be called an artefact, expression, image, impression, lyric, mark, performance, picture, sentence, sign, string, symbol, text, thought, token, utterance, word, work, and so on.

" Burgess wrote on December 7, 1871 in the London Daily News that " I propose that England should present a Free Library to Chicago, to remain there as a mark of sympathy now, and a keepsake and a token of true brotherly kindness forever ..."

At any point, a player may spend a curse token to either ask a player for a letter ( as if they had landed on a dwarf ) or to guess an object ( as if they had landed on a question mark, but without the questions ).

She briefly develops a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke, Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full at a far stronger level than before.

A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition.

His personal mark, worn by the soldiers of his own Shocker outpost and used in his official correspondence, was the Shocker emblem, but with the bird's head replaced by a wolf's.

The emblem of the borough is the former Aztec glyph used to mark a village name Xochicán as it appears in the Mendocino Codex.

Above the central stroke is a tashdid ( a diacritical mark indicating gemination ) resembling a letter W. The tulip shape of the emblem as a whole memorializes those who have died for Iran and symbolizes the values of patriotism and self-sacrifice, building on a legend that red tulips grow from the shed blood of martyrs.

A Japan | Japanese Japanese currency | Kobundō ( 小分銅 ), 95-97 % gold, " Paulownia " Kiri mark ( 桐 ), Kikubana ( 菊花 ) emblem, 373. 11 grams, Japan.

The Guess emblem with the famous question mark in the center.

Warrant cards generally include a photograph of the holder, as well as the holder's name, rank, warrant number and a holographic emblem to mark authenticity.

The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime Ministership of Canada, consists of four red maple leaves joined at the stem on a white field (" Argent four maple leaves conjoined in cross at the stem Gules "); the augmentation has, so far, been granted either as a canton sinister or centred in the chief.

* A false or unreal mark, a guise, disguise, a deceptive badge ;

While the French army has not included any grenadiers since 1870, the grenade badge is still a distinctive mark of the Foreign Legion, the National Gendarmerie and the French Customs which was a military unit until 1940.

While a child in Paris, Gainsbourg had worn the yellow badge as the mark of a Jew.

In return for a commitment by the retained man to provide ( usually ) military support, the lord would give his retainer a small annual fee, a badge or item of clothing to mark his loyalty ( livery ) and provide help for him in his disputes with his neighbours ( maintenance ).

The Oxford English Dictionary states it probably derives from " badge " +-ard, referring to the white mark borne like a badge on its forehead.

He also ordered all his subjects to wear a leaden identification badge around their necks, and required that all Copts who wished to engage in business activity have the mark of a lion branded on their hands.

Lower right inset: the symbol mark ( Mon ( badge ) | mon ) of Chōshū Domain | Chōshū inscribed on top of the cannon.

* A badge of shame, a physical mark of infamy or disgrace

The yellow badge ( or yellow patch ), also referred to as a Jewish badge, was a cloth patch that Jews were ordered to sew on their outer garments to mark them as Jews in public.

In Europe, the Fourth Council of the Lateran of 1215 ruled that Jews and Muslims must be distinguishable by their dress ( Latin " habitus ")", and the yellow badge in Europe dates from this, unlike the Jewish hat ( or " Judenhut "), a cone-shaped hat, which is seen in many illustrations from before this date, and remained the key distinguishing mark of Jewish dress in the Middle Ages.

; 1941, August 13: The yellow badge was the only standardised identifying mark in the German-occupied East, other signs were forbidden.

; 1942, March 13: The Gestapo ordered Jewish Germans and Jews with citizenship of annexed states to mark their apartments or houses at the front door with a white badge.

Since 2009, a club that gets three consecutive or five overall wins will get a special mark of recognition, the multiple-winner badge, instead of keeping the original trophy.

I wear its badge as a mark of honor.

On April 11, 1962 in a White House memorandum to the United States Army, President Kennedy reiterated his view: " The green beret is a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom.

The badge is considered " permanent " at the eighteen month mark.

By the start of the 1800s, those with insurance were given a badge or mark to attach to their properties, indicating that they were eligible to utilize the services of the fire brigade.

The pre-facelift body remained in use for a few years on the cheapest 147 C – to mark the newer versions as different, they received the additional " Spazio " label: this name later came to replace the " 147 " badge in Argentina.

Journalists in Asia use an armband to mark themselves, similar to a press badge.

The club's badge is a cockerel, which echoes both the trade mark of the Courage brand and the weathervane on St Mary's church.