Mark
Mark verb - To attach an identifying slip to.
Soil
Soil verb - To make dirty.
How words are described
| special | special mark | special soil |
| common | common mark | common soil |
| distinct | distinct mark | distinct soil |
| real | real mark | real soil |
| Other adjectives: bad, new, red. | ||
Common collocations
| time | mark time | soil time |
Both words in one sentence
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France's win in 1998 on home soil (against Brazil, no less) with a majority of black and Arab-descended players is said to mark a turning point in positive race relations in France.
Source: Useful Notes / The World Cup - On the other side, Mark does everything he can to stretch rations for six people for thirty days (actually sixty days, due to NASA's backup redundancies) into four years, including growing his own potatoes in Martian soil.
Source: Scotty Time -
Snark-to-Snark Combat: The movie starts out with this, with Mark reporting on the soil he's collecting and Martinez snarking that Mark had "found dirt", then Watney counters with Martinez's job of just making sure visually that the MAV is standing up.
Source: Film / The Martian
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