bark

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
/bɑːk/    /bɑɹk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An Irish person. obsolete,slang
  2. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
  3. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge. obsolete
    — Nothing then remained for them but to commit their bark to the wind and waves.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  5. An abrupt loud vocal utterance. figuratively
    — 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.
  6. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind. poetic
    — It is the star to every wandering bark
  7. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced. countable,uncountable
  8. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
    — Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.
  9. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
  10. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint. countable,uncountable
  11. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it. countable,uncountable
    — This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.
  12. (video games) A short, repeatable, and unobtrusive voiceline spoken by an NPC. countable
  13. The envelopment or outer covering of anything. countable,uncountable
  14. Woodchips. US,Western,countable,dialectal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). intransitive
    — The neighbour's dog is always barking.
  2. To strip the bark from; to peel.
    — Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface.
  3. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
    — to bark one’s heel
  4. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. intransitive
    — And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.
  5. To girdle.
  6. To speak sharply. transitive
    — The sergeant barked an order.
  7. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
    — to bark the roof of a hut
感叹词 intj.
  1. The sound of a dog barking.

词形变化

barks present,singular,third-person barking participle,present barked participle,past barked past barke alternative barks plural barke alternative barke alternative barks plural barke alternative barks present,singular,third-person barking participle,present barked participle,past barked past barke alternative barks plural barque alternative barke alternative barks plural barke alternative

词源

词源 1
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”)..
词源 2
From Middle English bark, from Old English 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”).
词源 3
From Middle English 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 bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of barge, barque and baris.
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