check mark vs marking

check mark

noun
  • A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement. 

  • In long jump, javelin and similar events, little mark alongside the runway which helps the athlete to set their steps just right for their performance. 

marking

noun
  • A mark. 

  • The action of marking. 

  • The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal. 

  • Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it. 

How often have the words check mark and marking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )