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Bark can be a verb or a noun.
bark used as a 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" - To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
- To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
"They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. — Tyndale." - To speak sharply.
"The sergeant barked an order."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
bark used as a noun:
- The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
- Peruvian Bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
- The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
- A similar sound made by some other animals.
- An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
- A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
- a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is bark?
- Verb usage: to bark one’s heel
- Verb usage: bark the roof of a hut
- Verb usage: They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. — Tyndale.
- Verb usage: Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. — Fuller.
- Verb usage: The sergeant barked an order.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of bark are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of bark, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).