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As nouns the difference between scalp and bark

is that scalp is the top of the head; the skull while bark is the short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.

As verbs the difference between scalp and bark

is that scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident while bark is to make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).

scalp

English

(wikipedia scalp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top of the head; the skull.
  • The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
  • * 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', '' Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
  • *:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
  • A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
    • Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
  • A victory.
  • * 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
    • Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
  • (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
  • (figurative) The top; the summit.
    • (Macaulay)

    Derived terms

    * scalpless * scalpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
  • (slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
  • To screen or sieve ore before further processing
    • scalped ore
  • (surgery) To remove the skin of.
  • * J. S. Wells
    • We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
  • (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
    • (Knight)

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    bark

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) barken, berken, borken, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
    • The neighbour's dog is always barking .
    The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
  • To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  • * (rfdate), Tyndale.
    • They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
  • * (rfdate), Fuller
    • Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. .
  • To speak sharply.
    • The sergeant barked an order.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.}}
    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)
  • 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:
    • 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)
  • (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
  • * '>citation
    • Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
  • (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:
    • 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) rind
    Related terms
    * ringbark * paperbark * stringybark

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strip the bark from; to peel.
  • To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
    • to bark one’s heel
  • To girdle.
  • To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
    • bark the roof of a hut

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) , from Egyptian b?re .

    Alternative forms

    * barque

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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:
    • It is the star to every wandering bark
  • * circa 1880 , among the Poems of Emily Dickinson:
    • Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales,
  • (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

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