Demarcate vs Nark - What's the difference?
demarcate | nark |
To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
* {{quote-book
, year=1907
, author=George Curzon
, title=
, passage=Small Committees of officials are frequently appointed in advance to consider the geographical, topographical, and ethnological evidence that is forthcoming, and to construct a tentative line for their respective Governments; this, after much debate, is embodied in a treaty, which provides for the appointment of Commissioners to demarcate the line upon the spot and submit it for ratification by the principals.}}
To mark the difference between two causes of action; to distinguish.
(British, slang) A police spy or informer.
* 1912 , , Act I,
(slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
(slang) To annoy or irritate.
(slang) To complain.
(transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
As verbs the difference between demarcate and nark
is that demarcate is to mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit while nark is (slang) to serve or behave as a spy or informer.As a noun nark is
(british|slang) a police spy or informer or nark can be (narcotics officer).demarcate
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(demarcat)Synonyms
* (to mark the limits or boundaries) (l), (l), (l)External links
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* ----nark
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(wikipedia nark)Etymology 1
From (etyl) nak.Alternative forms
* narcNoun
(en noun)- It’s a—well, it’s a copper’s nark , as you might say. What else would you call it? A sort of informer.
Verb
(en verb)- It really narks me when people smoke in restaurants.
- He narks in my ear all day, moaning about his problems.
- Nark it! I hear someone coming!
