Bark vs Jark - What's the difference?
bark | jark |
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
* (rfdate), Tyndale.
* (rfdate), Fuller
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.
A seal (stamp or impression of a stamp ).
* 1818 , '', Chapter XXIX, 1839, ''The Waverley Novels , Volume 2,
(slang, military, British) To modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach and use a tracking device to covertly monitor its location.
* 1996 , Andy McNab, Immediate Action ,
* 2001 , Peter Taylor, Brits:the War Against the IRA ,
* 2010 , Christopher C. Harmon, Andrew N. Pratt, Sebastian Gorka, Toward a Grand Strategy Against Terrorism ,
* 2010 , Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland ,
* 1996 , William Gilmore Simms, Mary Ann Wimsatt, “Bald-Head Bill Bauldy”'', ''Tales of the South ,
As nouns the difference between bark and jark
is that bark is (three-masted vessel) while jark is a seal (stamp or impression of a stamp ).As a verb jark is
(slang|military|british) to modify (weaponry) to disadvantage; especially, to attach and use a tracking device to covertly monitor its location or jark can be .bark
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 ----jark
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)page 92,
- "This is a jark from Jim Ratcliffe," said the taller, having looked at the bit of paper.
Verb
(en verb)page 365,
- At the end of the day, it was inevitable that the IRA would discover that its weapons were being jarked .
page 255,
- 'Anna' and 'Mary' were involved in operations that drew on a variety of intelligence data: ‘jarking'’; information from agents;One of the weapons, perhaps the Armalite, had been ‘' jarked ’ by the ‘Det’ and tracked for some time.
page 197,
- An especially creative method was known as “jarking ,” which involved “the placing of tiny tracking devices on weapons in arms caches so their movements can be followed.”8
page 282,
- The homes and safe houses he provided were bugged; the weapons hidden in empty houses were ‘jarked ’ so the security forces could keep track of them, and the vehicles used to ferry weapons put under close surveillance.
Usage notes
(track weaponry) Both word and practice became common during the (1968-1998).Etymology 2
From jerk.Verb
(en verb)page 323,
- First, I felt a kick in my side, and ribs; then I felt myself pulled and jarked about, by the arms and shoulders; and, when I opened my eyes and straightened myself out, to see what alligator hed got hold of me now, what should I see but a squad of four or five of our own Rigiment, all pulling at me at onst!
References
*jarking'', in ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z , by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 041525938X, 9780415259385. * Toby Harnden, Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh , ISBN 0-340-71736-X
