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marker

noun as in a writing instrument

noun as in something that marks

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Genetic markers show dogs start out aging faster than people, then quickly slow down.

Instead, the biggest difference was in the blood levels of creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase, both markers of muscle damage, which were significantly elevated immediately after the race and 24 hours later in the crampers.

These markers can be sussed out using well-known techniques, like DNA sequencing and mass spectrometry.

By tracking both physical and mental health markers, Emerald offers a unique window into the illness.

Each year, they also placed markers on the moving glacier surface as reference points.

Jett sees this number as a marker of how much the president allows professionals to do the job.

Some pilots consider the infrared marker to be crucial to the close air-support mission to support ground troops.

Certainly Democrats laid a marker down for the next two years.

In their opinion, this would allow conservatives to lay a marker down on immigration while avoiding a shutdown for the time being.

Poking out of the shiny gold pages is a “distinctive silk marker”—also gold—which “complements the color of the leather.”

Right over the stone marker, a long-shafted war-lance was carved—the blade pointing down.

MacRae's seat, stone-marker, and aboriginal spearhead; the three lined up like the sights of a modern rifle.

As 63 each little square was sown, I thrust the packet on a stick for a marker, and hitched along to the next square.

Marker witnessed the accident of 1835, and states that the driver who was killed at that time was James Rhodes.

And in her mind she saw two graves side by side, one with a marker reading "My Beloved Wife," the other unmarked.

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On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to marker, such as: broad tip pen, colored pen, felt tip pen, and marking pen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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