unmarked
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adjective
1.
not marked.
2.
Linguistics.
a.
characterized by the absence of a distinctive phonological feature, as (p), which, in contrast to (b), lacks the distinctive feature of voicing.
b.
characterized by the absence of a grammatical marker, as the singular in English in contrast to the plural, which is typically marked by an -s ending.
c.
neutral with regard to an element of meaning specified by a semantically related item.
d.
occurring more typically than an alternative form. Compare marked ( def 4 ).
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| —adj | |
| 1. | not carrying a mark or marks: an unmarked police car |
| 2. | not noticed or observed |
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Unmarked
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Example sentences
Walk through an unmarked door and a short hallway leads south, past walls crammed with pictures of human brains.
Unmarked cars, motorcycles, and marked patrol cars are used.
Say someone shows us an unmarked container of water and asks us each how much water is in there.
They'd put on blue jeans and flannel shirts and their dark hair was uncombed and fallen identically over their unmarked foreheads.
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