oznaczać

From oznaczyć +‎ -ać.^[1][2] First attested in 1583.^[3] Compare Kashubian òznaczac and Silesian ôznaczać.

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• Rhymes: -at͡ʂat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: o‧zna‧czać

oznaczać impf (perfective oznaczyć)

1. (transitive) to mark, to label, to tag (to place an informative symbol on)

   Synonyms: naznaczać, oznakowywać, znaczyć, znakować

2. (transitive) to mark, to label, to tag (to represent some kind of object with a specific symbol)
3. (transitive) to demarcate, to mark out (to determine by choosing)

   Synonym: wyznaczać

   Hypernym: ustalać

4. (transitive, sciences) to mark out (to establish the place of an object or substance within a particular type of scientific classification or determine a value as a result of measurement)
5. (intransitive, obsolete) to let know; to show (to inform someone or make see)
6. (transitive) to assign, to nominate, to name; to allocate, to earmark, to dedicate
7. (obsolete, transitive) to mark around something with signs
8. (obsolete, reflexive with się) to be marked (to stand out; to differ, to be different)

oznaczać impf

1. (transitive) to mean, to signify, to denote (to express something)

   Hypernym: wyrażać

2. (transitive) to mean, to imply, to indicate (to indicate with one's form)

   Synonym: znaczyć

3. (transitive) to mean (to involve some kind of consequence)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), oznaczać is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 31 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 24 times in essays, 7 times in fiction, and 5 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 71 times, making it the 910th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[4]

• oznaczać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• oznaczać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “oznaczać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 927
• oznaczać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego