bark

Nghĩa

Verb

1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
3. To speak sharply.

Noun

1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
3. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.

Noun

1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Noun

An Irish person.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/bɑːk/

Từ nguyên

From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

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