color vs mark

color

noun
  • An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. 

  • The flag of a nation or team. 

  • These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). 

  • A paint. 

  • The morning ceremony of raising the flag. 

  • A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge. 

  • The spectral composition of visible light. 

  • A standard or banner. 

  • A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext. 

  • Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. 

  • Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. 

  • Gang insignia. 

  • Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). 

  • A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price. 

  • Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. 

  • The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) 

  • A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion. 

  • Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. 

  • An appearance of right or authority; color of law. 

  • A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. 

  • Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment. 

verb
  • To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. 

  • To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). 

  • To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. 

  • To give something color. 

  • To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking. 

  • To become red through increased blood flow. 

  • To affect without completely changing. 

adj
  • Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. 

mark

noun
  • A score for a sporting achievement. 

  • A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral). 

  • A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc. 

  • A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers. 

  • A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g. 

  • A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples. 

  • Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.) 

  • A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. 

  • A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. 

  • A sign or brand on a person. 

  • A target for shooting at with a projectile. 

  • Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold. 

  • The model number of a device; a device model. 

  • A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures. 

  • An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something. 

  • A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential. 

  • An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance. 

  • The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game. 

  • One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".) 

  • An indication or sign used for reference or measurement. 

  • Attention. 

  • Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station. 

  • A characteristic feature. 

  • A written character or sign. 

  • A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver. 

  • The line indicating an athlete's starting-point. 

  • Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver. 

  • A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total. 

  • Limit or standard of action or fact. 

  • A former currency of Germany and West Germany. 

verb
  • To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose. 

  • To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role). 

  • To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of. 

  • To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. 

  • To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something). 

  • To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). 

  • To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something). 

  • To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols. 

  • To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with. 

  • To create (a mark) on a surface. 

  • To hold (someone) in one's line of sight. 

  • To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind. 

  • To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.). 

  • To record that (someone) has a particular status. 

  • To put a marker in the place of one's ball. 

  • To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal. 

  • To create an indication of (a location). 

  • To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score. 

  • To assign (someone) to a particular category or class. 

  • To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located. 

  • To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily. 

  • To be typical or characteristic of (something). 

  • To distinguish (one person or thing from another). 

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