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Dalk vs Dalek - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dalk and dalek

is that dalk is a pin; brooch; clasp while Dalek is a member of a race of extraterrestrial mutants who appear in the television programme Doctor Who and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and being bent on exterminating other beings mercilessly.

dalk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dalke, dalk, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pin; brooch; clasp

    • Etymology 2

    Perhaps a diminutive of (dale), (dell).

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow or depression.
  • *1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 120:
  • *:On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk , Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.

    • dalek

    English

    (wikipedia Dalek) .

    Noun

    (s)
  • (science fiction) A member of a race of extraterrestrial mutants who appear in the television programme and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and being bent on exterminating other beings mercilessly.
  • * 1964 , , Doctor Who and the Daleks , chapter 6 (based on the tele-script by Terry Nation):
    • 'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'
  • * 1987 , Barry Norman, The Movie Greats? , page 144:
    • what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".
  • * , Together with English Core , fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-87414-92-8), page 234:
    • This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek .
  • * 2000 , Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii:
    • My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek , but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.
  • * 2003 , Siân Preece, Country Cooking Countdown'', in ''Scottish Girls About Town (2004), page 19:
    • One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek , dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders,
  • * 2006 , , I Am a Dalek , chapter 9:
    • Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'
  • * Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2 , page 333:
    • Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek' with about three stock phrases... Remember, ' Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.
  • * 2011 , Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land , page 166:
    • And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.
    (The Daleks)

    Derived terms

    * Dalek voice

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