mark off
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Meaning
put a check mark on or near or next to
set boundaries to and delimit
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Please check each name on the list
tick off the items
mark off the units
mark out the territory
As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes; for example William Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark off the end of a scene in a play.
Religious belief and practice, law, dress, language, food, system of taxation and personal relations - all these and a thousand other details began to coalesce and mark off Islamic civilization from any other.