Bark



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.狗吠; n.树皮
• ［英］ v.狗吠 ( cry of a dog) ; n.树皮 ( the outside covering of trees)
• ［类］ epidermis : mammal / bark : conifer ( 哺乳动物和表皮 / 针叶植物和树皮)
• ［记］ GRE中主要考""树皮""一意

Webster Collegiate

kI. verb

• Etymology: Middle English berken, from Old English beorcan; akin to Old Norse berkja to bark, Lithuanian burg?ti to growl
• Date: before 12th century
• intransitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to make the characteristic short loud cry of a dog
    • b. to make a noise resembling a bark
  • 2. to speak in a curt loud and usually angry tone ; snap
• transitive verb
  • 1. to utter in a curt loud usually angry tone <an officer barking orders>
  • 2. to advertise by persistent outcry <barking their wares>

II. noun

• Date: before 12th century
• 1.
  • a. the sound made by a barking dog
  • b. a similar sound
• 2. a short sharp peremptory tone of speech or utterance
• ? barkless adjective

III. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse bark-, b?rkr; akin to Middle Dutch & Middle Low German borke bark
• Date: 14th century
• 1. the tough exterior covering of a woody root or stem; specifically the tissues outside the cambium that include an inner layer especially of secondary phloem and an outer layer of periderm
• 2. cinchona 2
• 3. a candy containing chocolate and nuts that is made in a sheet and broken into pieces
• ? barkless adjective

IV. transitive verb

• Date: 14th century
• 1. to treat with an infusion of tanbark
• 2.
  • a. to strip the bark from
  • b. to rub off or abrade the skin of <barked a shin on the desk>

V. noun or barque

• Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French barque, from Old Occitan barca, from Late Latin
• Date: 15th century
• 1.
  • a. a small sailing ship
  • b. a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft rigged and the others square-rigged
• 2. a craft propelled by sails or oars

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