assay-mark vs marking

assay-mark and marking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assay-mark	Yes	No	No	No
marking	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, marking is a hypernym of assay-mark; that is, marking is a word with a broader meaning than assay-mark:

assay-mark: a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity
marking: a distinguishing symbol

Other hypernyms of assay-mark include mark, marker.

assay-mark (noun)	marking (noun)
a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity	evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
	the act of making a visible mark on a surface
	a pattern of marks
	a distinguishing symbol