Bark vs Wail - 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.
A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.
A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
To make a noise like mourning or crying.
To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.
(slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
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(obsolete) To choose; to select.
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Bark is a related term of wail.
As nouns the difference between bark and wail
is that bark is (three-masted vessel) while wail is a prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.As a verb wail is
to cry out, as in sorrow or anguish or wail can be (obsolete) to choose; to select.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 ----wail
English
Etymology 1
Probably from (etyl)Etymology inWebster's Dictionary
Noun
(en noun)- She let out a loud, doleful wail .
- The wail of snow-dark winter winds.
- A bird's wail in the night.
Verb
(en verb)- The wind wailed and the rain streamed down.
- to wail one's death
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Derived terms
* wailer * wailinglyReferences
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "choice".Verb
(en verb)- Wailed wine and meats