Bark vs Brick - What's the difference?
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To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
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To speak sharply.
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The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
A similar sound made by some other animals.
(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
* circa 1921 , The Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol 11:
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
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(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
* 2009 , Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book , page 151:
To strip the bark from; to peel.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
To girdle.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
(poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
* circa 1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:
* circa 1880 , among the Poems of Emily Dickinson:
(nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
(uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
(countable) Something shaped like a brick.
(dated) A helpful and reliable person.
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(basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
(technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
(firearms) a carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
Made of brick(s).
To build with bricks.
* 1904 , Thomas Hansom Cockin, An Elementary Class-Book of Practical Coal-Mining , C. Lockwood and Son, page 78
* 1914 , The Mining Engineer , Institution of Mining Engineers, page 349
To make into bricks.
* 1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66
(slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.
To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
* 2007 December 14, Joe Barr, “PacketProtector turns SOHO router into security powerhouse”, Linux.com
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) barken, berken, borken, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The neighbour's dog is always barking .
- The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
- They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
- Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. .
- The sergeant barked an order.
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Usage notes
Historically, bork'' existed as a past tense form and ''borken as a past participle, but both forms are now obsolete.Derived terms
* bark up the wrong tree * barking * barking dogs never bite * bebark * dogs bark *Synonyms
* latrate (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) bark, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bark)- Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
- This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark .
Usage notes
Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.Synonyms
* (exterior covering of a tree) rindVerb
(en verb)- to bark one’s heel
- bark the roof of a hut
Etymology 3
From (etyl) , from Egyptian b?re .Alternative forms
* barqueNoun
(en noun)- It is the star to every wandering bark
- Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales,
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----brick
English
Noun
- This wall is made of bricks .
- This house is made of brick .
- a plastic explosive brick
- Thanks for helping me wash the car. You're a brick .
- We can't win if we keep throwing up bricks from three-point land.
Derived terms
* brick in one's hat * brickie * bricklayer * bricks and mortar * bricks and clicks * brick shithouse * drop a brick * hit the bricks * like a cat on a hot brick * like a ton of bricks * make bricks without straw * make bricks without straws * run into a brick wall * shit a brick * shit bricks * take to the bricks * talk to a brick wall * thick as a brickAdjective
(-)- All that was left after the fire was the brick chimney .
Derived terms
* brick shithouseVerb
(en verb)- If the ground is strong right up to the surface, a few yards are usually sunk and bricked before the engines and pit top are erected
- The shaft was next bricked between the decks until the top scaffold was supported by the brickwork and [made] to share the weight with the prids.
- The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.
- My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm .
- installing third-party firmware will void your warranty, and it is possible that you may brick your router.