Shark vs Chark - What's the difference?
shark | chark |
A scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder Selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head.
* 1569', ''The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on Thursday was sennight, the xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God, M.D.lxix.'', a
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 13, author=AP, work=The Guardian
, title= Someone who exploits others, for example by trickery, lies, usury, extortion.
* , chapter=7
, title= (informal, derogatory) A sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser.
(informal) A relentless and resolute person or group, especially in business.
(informal) A very good poker or pool player.
(sports, and, games) A person who feigns ineptitude to win money from others.
(obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
(obsolete) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
* Bishop Earle
(obsolete) To live by shifts and stratagems.
(obsolete) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
* Shakespeare, Hamlet I.i.
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Charcoal; coke.
* 1719 , ,
A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire-drill.
* 1872 , Charles Hardwick, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-lore ,
(US, Alaska) A wine glass.
* 2006 , Phyllis Downing Carlson and Laurel Downing Bill, Aunt Phil's Trunk: Early Alaska ,
A variety of hunting bird.
* 1856 , Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon , 2nd Edition,
To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.
* 1749 , John Lowthorp, Royal Society of Great Britain, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the end of the year MDCC , 5th Edition,
* 1771 , John Whitaker, The History of Manchester , Volume 1,
(Scotland) To make a grating sound.
* 1820 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , Volume 7,
As nouns the difference between shark and chark
is that shark is a scaleless, predatory fish of the superorder selachimorpha, with a cartilaginous skeleton and 5 to 7 gill slits on each side of its head or shark can be (informal|derogatory) a sleazy and amoral lawyer; an ambulance chaser while chark is charcoal; coke.As verbs the difference between shark and chark
is that shark is (obsolete) to steal or obtain through fraud or shark can be (obsolete) to pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly while chark is to reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.shark
English
(wikipedia shark) (Selachimorpha)Etymology 1
First attested in the 1560s, the word meaning 'scaleless fish' is of uncertain origin: it was apparently brought to England, with a specimen, by . The word may derive from the (etyl) xoc, or it may be an application of the "scoundrel" sense (which derives from the German ) to the fish; no explanation is agreed upon.[http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002843.php]Alternative forms
* sharke (obsolete )Noun
(en noun)broadside printed in London, the earliest known use of the term; reprinted in ''A Collection of Seventy-Nine Black-Letter Ballads and Broadsides: printed in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth, between the years 1559 and 1597'' in ' 1867 :
- The straunge fishe is in length xvij. foote and iij. foote broad, and in compas about the bodie vj. foote; and is round snowted, short headdid, hauing iij. rankes of teeth on either iawe, [...]. Also it hath v. gills of eache side of the head, shoing white. Ther is no proper name for it that I know, but that sertayne men of Captayne Haukinses doth call it a sharke .
Man 'surfs' great white shark, passage=He said he had spoken to a woman who was kayaking off Catalina Island, California, in 2008 when a shark' slammed her kayak from underneath and sent her flying into the air. She then landed on the back of the '''shark''', Collier said. "At that point the ' shark started to swim out to sea, so she jumped off its back," Collier said.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks , and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* (scaleless cartilaginous fish) (l) (obsolete)Derived terms
(shark and related fish species) * angel shark, angelshark * basking shark * bramble shark * bull shark * bullhead shark * bonnethead shark * carpetshark * catshark, cat shark * cookiecutter shark * cow shark * frilled shark * goblin shark * great white shark * Greenland shark * ground shark * gummyshark, gummy shark * hammerhead shark * hound shark, houndshark * lantern shark, lanternshark * lemon shark * leopard shark * mackerel shark * mako shark * nurse shark * requiem shark * sand shark * saw shark, sawshark * sleepershark * swellshark * thresher shark * tiger shark * weasel shark * whale shark * white sharkSee also
* dogfish * hammerhead * porbeagle * smooth-hound * thresher * white pointerEtymology 2
From the (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (player who feigns ineptitude to win money) hustlerUsage notes
* The use of the term by people unfamiliar with pool is rarely well perceived by experienced players.Derived terms
(shark) * card shark * loan shark * pool shark * shark bait * sharklike * sharkskinVerb
(en verb)- Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Derived terms
* shirkEtymology 3
Perhaps from the noun, or perhaps related to shear.Verb
(en verb)- Fortinbras Sharked up a list of lawless resolutes.
Anagrams
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chark
English
Noun
(en noun)- ... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
- The discoverer of the chark , or " fire-drill," an instrument for obtaining fire by artificial means, would be so great a benefactor to a people that had to suffer all the inconveniences resulting from occasional fireless hearths, that we may well understand why he may be invested by his astonished and delighted fellow-savages with miraculous or supernatural powers.
- At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.
- A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
Verb
(en verb)- I have ?een Turf chark''d, and then it ?erves to work Iron, and, as I have been inform'd will ?erve to make it in a Bloomery or Iron-work. Turf ' chark' d I reckon the ?weete?t and whole?ome?t Fire that can be, fitter for a Chamber and con?umptive People, than either Wood, Stone-Coal or Charcoal.
- The method which the Romans now taught them of charking the coal continues e??entially the ?ame until the pre?ent moment.
- The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.