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remark

[ri-mahrk]

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verb (used with object)

to say casually, as in making a comment: Someone remarked that tomorrow would be a warm day.

to note; perceive; observe: I remarked a slight accent in her speech.

Obsolete. to mark distinctively.

verb (used without object)

to make a remark or observation (usually followed by on or upon): He remarked on her amazing wit and intelligence.

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noun

the act of remarking; notice.

comment or mention: to let a thing pass without remark.

a casual or brief expression of thought or opinion.

Fine Arts. remarque.

Origin:
1625–35; (v.) < French remarquer, Middle French, equivalent to re- re- + marquer to mark¹; (noun) < French remarque, derivative of remarquer

Related forms

re·mark·er, noun

un·re·marked, adjective

well-re·marked, adjective

Synonyms
2. heed, regard, notice. 4. comment. 5. regard. 7. Remark, comment, note, observation imply giving special attention, an opinion, or a judgment. A remark is usually a casual and passing expression of opinion: a remark about a play. A comment expresses judgment or explains a particular point: a comment on the author's scholarship. A note is a memorandum or explanation, as in the margin of a page: a note explaining a passage. Observation suggests a comment based on judgment and experience: an observation on social behavior.

Antonyms
2. ignore.

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Example Sentences

Take the student's remark as a compliment or a mere observation, not a negative judgment.

Feel free to make your own sarcastic remark about forbidding hand sanitizers in hospitals.

The almost unavoidable implication of this remark is that they have never before been published.

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remark (rɪˈmɑːk)

—vb (when intr, often foll by on or upon; when tr, may take a clause as object)
1.	to pass a casual comment (about); reflect in informal speech or writing
2.	(tr; may take a clause as object) to perceive; observe; notice

—n
3.	a brief casually expressed thought or opinion; observation
4.	notice, comment, or observation: the event passed without remark
5.	engraving a variant spelling of remarque

[C17: from Old French remarquer to observe, from re- + marquer to note, mark¹]

re'marker

—n

remarque or remark (rɪˈmɑːk)

—n
1.	a mark in the margin of an engraved plate to indicate the stage of production of the plate. It is removed before the plate is finished
2.	a plate so marked
3.	a print or proof from a plate so marked

[C19: from French; see remark]

remark or remark

—n

[C19: from French; see remark]

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Word Origin & History

remark

1633, "to mark out, distinguish" modeled on Fr. remarquer "to mark, note, heed," from M.Fr. re-, intensive prefix, + marquer "to mark," probably from a Gmc. source, cf. O.H.G. marchon "to delimit" (see mark). Original sense preserved in remarkable (1604); meaning "make a comment"

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is first attested c.1694, from notion of "make a verbal observation" or "call attention to specific points." The noun is from 1654.

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