marking out

Verb

mark out (third-person singular simple present marks out, present participle marking out, simple past and past participle marked out)

1. (transitive) To mark the boundaries of an area—used of land, wood, metal, etc.—before working upon it.
2. (transitive) To classify.
   • I don't want to be marked out as a failure.
3. (transitive) To obliterate or cancel with a mark.
   • to mark out an item in an account
4. (transitive) To distinguish.
   • The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34