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easy mark

ˈizi mɑrk
WordNet
  1. (n) easy mark
    a defenseless victim
Usage in the news

He said the easy part of his research was the markings on the Corsairs . generalaviationnews.com

Sports an easy mark . ashingtonpost.com

Chef Mark Peel has easy ideas on preparing eggplant, while roaster Doug Zell samples coffee like fine wine. kcrw.com

Everythang's Corrupt also marks Ice Cube 's first studio release since 2010's I Am The West, though the MC says getting back into the studio felt easy and natural. rollingstone.com

The woman who offered one, authorities say, was looking for an easy mark. twincities.com

More than 30 trees, which are changing to fall colors, marked and numbered along an easy walking trail. cleveland.com

When it comes to giving a game a vibe, "awesome" is an easy mark to hit. riverfronttimes.com

Sure, some lands may be fenced, surveyed and marked with easy-to-read signage, but most are not. huntingclub.com

No Easy Day, by Mark Owen, Dutton 3. csmonitor.com

The sleek 3M MPro120's bright and sharp images, easy-to-use features, and long-lasting battery earn it high marks. pcworld.com

This economically priced, white flow regulator (Part # 21292) has a distinguishable easy-to-turn dial with clearly marked blue flow adjustment indicators (0 to 250 ml/hour). surgicalproductsmag.com

Expertcity's GoToMyPC Corporate 4.0 scores high marks for its easy and innovative approach to remote PC management. pcmag.com

Mark Bittman returns with an easy, delicious way to prepare skirt steak. kcrw.com

Sylvia Miller of Ohio may be 82-years-old, but that doesn't mean she's an easy mark for thieves. ksenam.com

Easy Gardening with Mark Viette. phm.net

Usage in scientific papers

It is a fairly easy exercise to prove that this remaining matching plus the set of marked edges is a maximum matching.
Linear Phase Transition in Random Linear Constraint Satisfaction Problem

One may extend definition of rank to incomplete matrices by setting it equal to the maximal size of nonzero minor, which contains only known moments (i.e. does not contain question marks.) It is easy to see that for every completion ¯M of M , inequality rank(M ) ≤ rank( ¯M ) holds.
Grade of Membership Analysis: One Possible Approach to Foundations

It is now easy to see that the moduli space of n-connected planar domains with two marked boundary points on one of the boundary components is 3n − 4 dimensional for all n ≥ 2, and zero dimensional if n = 1.
On Chordal and Bilateral SLE in multiply connected domains

However, if the user wanted to mark a trail as “Important”, “Used Frequently”, “Include in Easy Answer Questions”, etc, there should be some facility to do so. As a workaround, we decided to add these features in the menu.
Human Information Processing with the Personal Memex

In spite of this, it is easy to construct examples of pairs of marked surfaces where the lengths of {ξ , ¯ξ ,
Multiplicities of simple closed geodesics and hypersurfaces in Teichm\"uller space

Usage in literature

It was easy to know who she was, there was something in the very step that marked the light-footed Temple child. "Lotus Buds" by Amy Carmichael

An easy mark for the enemy, if he chose to take the opportunity. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930" by Various

But it was comparatively easy not to mind Lord Mark. "The Wings of the Dove, Volume II" by Henry James

And can you blame them for playing us for easy marks? "Our Next-Door Neighbors" by Belle Kanaris Maniates

The path wound on, faintly marked, but easy enough to follow with Tucu picking it out. "The Pathless Trail" by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

You may think you can fool me, but I've been in these parts too long to be an easy mark. "The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska" by Frank Gee Patchin

He was an easy mark. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930" by Various

Lying there within the circle of light cast by the flames he would be an easy mark for any enemy. "With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga" by W. Bert Foster

Its capillitium is remarkable, and constitutes an easy diagnostic mark. "The North American Slime-Moulds" by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

He was an easy man to trail, gait and appearance were both so marked. "The Deaves Affair" by Hulbert Footner

Usage in poetry
And, often, my lamp dies out in the dark,
As I sleep on the easy swell;
Till I fail to distinguish the signs that mark
The poles of Heaven and Hell!
This caught the eye of a slick card shark,
Who thought he had found an easy mark;
With two of his ilk he laid a plan
To capture alive and skin their man.