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unmarked

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Etymology

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Fromun- +‎marked.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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unmarked (notcomparable)

  1. Notbearingidentification.
    Synonyms:anonymous,undercover
    anunmarked highway patrol vehicle
    • 1855,Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, inMy Bondage and My Freedom. [], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan [],→OCLC:
      My mother died when I could not have been more than eight or nine years old, on one of old master's farms in Tuckahoe, in the neighborhood of Hillsborough. Her grave is, as the grave of the dead at sea,unmarked, and without stone or stake.
    • 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, inInternational Law Studies,US Naval War College[1], volume91, number361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page393:
      The “little green men”—faces covered, wearingunmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.196
  2. Free fromblemishes.
    Synonyms:like new,mint,pristine
  3. Notnoticed.
    Synonym:overlooked
  4. (sports) Notmarked, not closely followed by adefensive player.
    • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, inBBC[2]:
      Bale worked Bozovic again as he was leftunmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross.
  5. Not having been marked, or assigned a score.
    The teacher sat down to a pile ofunmarked work.
  6. (linguistics) Notmarked; not standing out as unusual, or contrasting, in a given context.
    Synonym:neutral
    The use of that word in that context wasunmarked.
    • 1968,John Lyons,Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page79:
      For instance, from the semantic point of view the wordsdog andbitch areunmarked and marked for the contrast of sex. The worddog is semanticallyunmarked (or neutral), since it can be applied to either males or females (That's a lovely dog you've got there: is it a he or a she?).

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Translations

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not bearing identification
sport: not marked
linguistics: not standing out
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