marking

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪŋ

From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark +‎ -ing.

marking (countable and uncountable, plural markings)

1. The action of marking.
   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The Seasiders equalised soon after when Gary Taylor-Fletcher made the most of slack marking to slot home.

2. A mark.
   • 2020 May 20, Ian Prosser, “Comment”, in Rail, page 7:

     Social distancing principles form a part of the essential controls needed to reduce the spread of Coronavirus. [...] For example, measures such as signage and floor markings to provide physical separation will help.

3. The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
4. A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object.

   The markings on the plane identified it as belonging to law enforcement.

5. (graph theory) Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.

marking

1. present participle and gerund of mark