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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hallmark
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bear
▪ It also bears the hallmarks of a long-cherished project.
▪ The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid.
▪ Whatever it was, it didn't bear the hallmark of life in Knockglen.
▪ In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.
▪ Cricket is primarily a man's game, bearing all the hallmarks of male camaraderie.
▪ The sculptures bear all the hallmarks of the Braun workshop and date from 1713-19.
▪ But they said the type of attack bore all the hallmarks of the I-R-A.
▪ It does not, in other words, bear the hallmarks of Thatcherism.
become
▪ The safety and durability that have become Volvo hallmarks are an added bonus, though anti-lock brakes are an extra £595.
▪ In what would become a hallmark of the next dozen years, the Legislature was seldom able to act on major issues.
▪ But Korn/Ferry have not developed the teamwork approach that has become a hallmark of Russell Reynolds.
▪ That system of local distribution, which became a hallmark of the organization, took some years to come into being.
▪ Waste became a hallmark of consumerism.
▪ Rampant individualism finds so little interest in the collective that injustice can become the hallmark of some free enterprise systems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cultural shock was a hallmark of the period.
▪ Eddery had to be at his most determined to beat Nominator whose hallmark is toughness.
▪ Her health was a hallmark of her personality.
▪ His campaign hallmark is his informality and accessibility.
▪ One key reason was the company opted to step back from the relentless price-cutting that is a hallmark of the juice business.
▪ Parler's hallmarks lay in decoration: vaulting and sculpture poured from his workshops.
▪ Whatever it was, it didn't bear the hallmark of life in Knockglen.
▪ Yet it is stasis, not change, that is the hallmark of evolution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hallmark

1721, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, site of the assay office; see hall + mark (n.1). General sense of "mark of quality" first recorded 1864. As a verb from 1773.

Wiktionary
hallmark

n. A distinguishing characteristic. vb. To provide or stamp with a hallmark.

WordNet
hallmark

  1. n. a distinctive characteristic or attribute [syn: trademark, earmark, stylemark]

  2. a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity [syn: authentication, assay-mark]

Wikipedia
Hallmark

A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of precious metals— platinum, gold, silver and in some nations, palladium. In a more general sense, the term hallmark can also be used to refer to any distinguishing characteristic.

Hallmark (disambiguation)

Hallmark can refer to:

  • Hallmark, an official stamp of quality on a precious metal.
  • Hallmark, Louisville, a small neighborhood in western Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
  • Hallmark Cards, an American company based in Kansas City, Missouri, a manufacturer of greeting cards
  • Hallmark Channel, an American cable television network owned by Crown Media Holdings.
    • Hallmark Channel (International), includes:
      • Hallmark Channel (Asia)
      • Hallmark Channel (Australia)
      • Hallmark Channel (Italy)
      • Hallmark Channel (UK)
  • RHI Entertainment, previously known as Hallmark Entertainment.
  • Hallmark Institute of Photography
  • Hallmark Guitars, an American guitar manufacturer.
  • Hallmark Coach, a UK coach operator.

Usage examples of "hallmark".

Ladies of Perpetual Disgruntlement, both in the Bay Area and across the state, but none were certain, since they lacked the hallmark humor.

In the morning, I attended Gunter at his breakfast, serving him with the unobtrusive grace that was a hallmark of Cereus House.

This experience convinced Menzies that the Liberal Party had abandoned the enlightened tendencies that had been a hallmark of its administration during the immediate postwar years.

This has been the hallmark of all the great natural philosophers and physicians.

That harmony with surroundings tended to be a hallmark of neopagans in general and Wiccans in particular.

True, a few scholarships and exhibitions exist which must be filled by men whose talents do not run to means, but those who last soon acquire the hallmarks of a Porterhouse man.

As we passed down the hall, I saw everywhere the hallmarks of pride and craftsmanship, from the smallest, polished turnbuckle to the handles of cursory valves and spigots to the brass railings and handholds that were in such abundance on board.

When all had arrived, surrounded her feet, and looked up at her with that ethereal patience that seems to be the hallmark of cold-blooded animals, Lucy passed two bowls over to Leah and watched as her granddaughter fed the turtles raw hamburger and lettuce.

Hallmark, Nielsen, and Meder were taken in handcuffs by boat from Wenchow to Shanghai, arriving on April 24.

It was folly for a Coronal to be roaming the jungles of Piurifayne with so skimpy an entourage: but folly seemed to have become the hallmark of recent Coronals, Valentine thought, considering that his two predecessors, Malibor and Voriax, had met early and violent deaths while off doing foolish things.

ROC declared to listeners of the morning program that it had all the hallmarks of an inter faction shooting.

Across the street, a pink-haired little old lady was readjusting her purse, her aluminum walker, and the white and red plastic bag of Hallmark products she had just purchased.

As for Latin, she had managed to move beyond the flagrant guessing that is the hallmark of most beginners.

Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy, complex technology, centralized government, and writing.

Similar tribal organization in the past is inferred from archaeological evidence of settlements that were substantial but lacked the archaeological hallmarks of chiefdoms that I shall explain below.