marked-out
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The laboratory uses scientific monitoring equipment such as pipes inserted into the peat to measure the water table, weirs that gauge water flow in erosion channels and marked-out squares for monitoring plant growth.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2022
We begin with physical rehearsals on the marked-out stage floor.
From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2020
The trees were lacquered red or black and the people who went in to move them wore white gloves and moved them along this precisely marked-out route.
From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2018
During the rutt, wildebeest defend marked-out territorial patches, the aim being to get oestrous females to stay in their company.
From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2014
On the other side the marsh took up the monotony and carried it, scarcely interrupted by undefined water-courses, to the faintly marked-out horizon line of the remote bay.
From Frontier Stories by Harte, Bret
