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語源 1
From 中期英語 barken, berken, borken, from 古期英語 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 古期英語 beorc, bearce (“barking”).
recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog
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動詞
bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)
- (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
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Synonyms: give tongue, (rare) latrate
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The neighbour's dog is always barking.
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The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
- (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
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1530, Tyndale, A Pathway into the Holy Scripture:
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And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.
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- (transitive) To speak sharply.
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名詞
bark (plural barks)
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
- (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
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c. 1921, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11:
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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.
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1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
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Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
- (music) The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
派生語
- all bark and no bite
- all bark but no bite
- all bark no bite
- bark collar
- barkery
- Barkese
- barkitecture
- barkless
- bark mitzvah
- barkometer
- bark park
- barksome
- barky
- massoy bark
- midbark
- mussoi bark
- one's bark is worse than one's bite
間投詞
bark
- The sound of a dog barking.
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Synonym: woof
語源 2
From 中期英語 bark, from 古期英語 barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).
名詞
bark (countable and uncountable, plural barks)
- (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants.
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1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia..., page 346:
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The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.
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- (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
- The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
- The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
- (dialectical, Western US) Woodchips.
語源 3
From 中期英語 barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr
(“transport ship”). Doublet of barge, barque and baris.
名詞
bark (plural barks)
- (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.
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c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:
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It is the star to every wandering bark
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1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 272:
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a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book I.—Life] Whether my bark went down at sea”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 38:
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- (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.