'marks off' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to indicate a separation or distinction between two things or categories. For example, "The border between the two countries marks off where the two cultures end and begin."
It finished down slightly at 1.8200 marks, off from 1.8211 on Monday.
He marks off the signboard into a corresponding number of squares and then goes to work.
A visual leitmotif is a map on which Ms. Friedrich marks off 173 sites with new construction.
However, he failed to extend fully on his penultimate dive and was relegated to sixth, nine marks off Klein.
That ignorance of the future is clearly what marks off any participatory fiction as opposed to a retrospect.
I write all the time, but what marks off new tasks from old (or going over old ground) is finding myself plunged into something close to despair.
"They told her they would take marks off, she might go to prison and her family might go to prison as well," he said.
In a sliver of the rectangle, about 10percentt, he marks off what can't be done in the cloud, like high-end graphics processing.
Man has always been intrigued by the problem of boundaries: what distinguishes him from another man; what marks off his culture from another; what the dividing lines are between man and plants, man and animals, or man and his gods.
In the N.F.L., there are some likely pending divorces, although Giants Coach Tom Coughlin has offered his (for now) support of his defensive coordinator, Bill Sheridan, while trying to scrub the tire marks off his defense.
In 1973, the Fremont town supervisors decided to end the Saturday-night concerts, because — well, no one really remembers why anymore, but there was talk of fights breaking out and drugs circulating in the crowd, and wear and tear on the town hall's wooden floors, although the girls scrubbed the scuff marks off every Sunday.
