1. To be a sign or indication of.
2. To have as a meaning; SYN. refer.

1. To be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; SYN. mark, differentiate.
2. To mark as different; SYN. separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, tell, tell apart.

1. To mark a page in a book, often by folding down a corner.
2. To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

ETYM From Flag an ensign.
1. To communicate or signal with a flag.
2. To decorate with flags, as of buildings.
3. To provide with a flag.

1. To refer to a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; SYN. point, show.
2. To suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; SYN. suggest.
3. To state or express briefly.

1. To assign a label to; designate with a label.
2. To distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions.
3. To distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom.

(Homonym: marc).
1. To designate as if by a mark.
2. To make or leave a mark on.

To convey or express a meaning