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tonbei
Jan 9, 2018, 2:07:11 PM1/9/18
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I have a question about the following sentences from a novel.
Next I called the dispatcher.
"Can you tell me if Lieutenant Marino is marked on?" I asked.
She came back to me. "He's marked on"
(Cruel and Unusual by P. Cornwell)
context: The narrator's talking with the city police station's dispathcer.
question about: the meaning of "be marked on".
I guesss it is a police jargon, meaning he's out on patrol.
There must be a board with lamps to show which detective is on duty.
Am I right?
Next I called the dispatcher.
"Can you tell me if Lieutenant Marino is marked on?" I asked.
She came back to me. "He's marked on"
(Cruel and Unusual by P. Cornwell)
context: The narrator's talking with the city police station's dispathcer.
question about: the meaning of "be marked on".
I guesss it is a police jargon, meaning he's out on patrol.
There must be a board with lamps to show which detective is on duty.
Am I right?
Harrison Hill
Jan 9, 2018, 2:21:58 PM1/9/18
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are "on" duty as opposed to people who are "off" duty, needs to be
marked somewhere.
It might be "a board with lamps". Unlikely though, and the "mark"
will probably be a tick or a cross, made with a "marker pen" perhaps.
Horace LaBadie
Jan 9, 2018, 3:41:45 PM1/9/18
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In article <fce5bc2c-a0f0-4cc6...@googlegroups.com>,
A policeman can be on duty while in the station house or precinct
building. The "duty" board is usually just a board listing all the names
of the personnel assigned to the precinct or station, with a place to
make a checkmark or something similar to indicate duty status. It might
be a blackboard in older stations.
building. The "duty" board is usually just a board listing all the names
of the personnel assigned to the precinct or station, with a place to
make a checkmark or something similar to indicate duty status. It might
be a blackboard in older stations.
Colonel Edmund J. Burke
Jan 9, 2018, 3:46:16 PM1/9/18
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Peter Duncanson [BrE]
Jan 9, 2018, 4:45:07 PM1/9/18
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 11:07:06 -0800 (PST), tonbei <aut...@infoseek.jp>
wrote:
As others have indicated there will be a board with officers' names on
it. Next to each name will be a mark of some sort to indicate whether
the person is "on duty" or "off duty".
So "marked on" is short for "marked as 'on duty'"
This is an example of an ON-DUTY LOCATOR:
https://www.magnatag.com/img/products/ODL/ODLcover.png
It is an illustration of its use in a medical context.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
wrote:
it. Next to each name will be a mark of some sort to indicate whether
the person is "on duty" or "off duty".
So "marked on" is short for "marked as 'on duty'"
This is an example of an ON-DUTY LOCATOR:
https://www.magnatag.com/img/products/ODL/ODLcover.png
It is an illustration of its use in a medical context.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
John Varela
Jan 10, 2018, 2:38:45 PM1/10/18
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clearer if the original had put "on" in quotes:
She came back to me, "He's marked 'On'."
--
John Varela
Sam Plusnet
Jan 13, 2018, 5:43:19 PM1/13/18
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at the head of the gang-plank with a list of the officers.
Against each there is a small shutter which covers either the word
"Aboard" or "Ashore".
--
Sam Plusnet
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