Definition of ark in English:

ark

noun ɑːkɑrk

1the ark(in the Bible) the ship built by Noah to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the Flood; Noah's ark.
（《圣经》中诺亚为家人和每对动物躲避洪水而造的）方舟；诺亚方舟
1. 1.1archaic A ship or boat.
  船，舰
  Example sentencesExamples
  So many of the chapters offer versions of the ark, boats built for human survival against the storms of God and/or nature.
  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
  Irving Berlin sailed in his beloved ark to the age of 101.
2
short for Ark of the Covenant
1. 2.1 A chest or cupboard housing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue.
  （犹太教教堂中存放《摩西五经》经卷的）藏经箱，藏经柜
  Example sentencesExamples
  Traces of Holy Arks, between the three openings, were discovered as well.
  There are six arches on each side of the Holy Ark corresponding to the number of books of the Mishna; each arch has a pole with five bulbs representing the five books of the Torah.
  In 1953 they pictured Holy Arks from synagogues in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Petah Tikvah, and Safed.
  This symbol, which also appears above Holy Arks, originates in the Bible: ‘He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust ".
  There were two Arons (Holy Arks) in the camp of Israel.
  The woodwork of the Aron Hakodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torah is stored, is original.
  Three Holy Arks are set into the thick southern wall with a colorful rose window above them.
  The bold phrase from the Psalms stands in relief over most Holy Arks in the synagogues.
  Donated by New York financier and philanthropist Ira Rennert, the new Holy Ark was designed by Avraham Avargel - the same architect who constructed the large Ark at the Western Wall plaza.
  The synagogue possesses two Aron Hakodeshim (Holy Arks) on the eastern front, where the entrance is.
  When his eye caught sight of the Holy Ark, he put down his broom and approached it.
  Likewise, a room to contain the various Holy Arks that store the many Torah scrolls used on Mondays and Thursdays, Shabbatot and Festivals at the Western Wall will be built in one of the halls adjacent to the prayer hall.
  Surprisingly, similar domes were found on the two Holy Arks in Livorno on the western coast of Italy.
  The Holy Ark was made of cedar wood covered with gold (in essence a wooden box between two gold ones).
  In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues.
3A small bivalve mollusc which attaches itself to rocks with byssus threads.
赤贝，蚶
Order Arcoidea: Arca and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
- A test of genetic population structure showed that the ark shell in Korea formed a large genetic group.
- Our primary goals are to characterize patterns of morphological variation within and between geminate arks and evaluate the utility of shell shape for distinguishing between recent geminate species.
- The Twisted Ark Shell has a nearly paper-thin, delicate shell, which is substantially larger than the smaller strong, heavy shell of the Ponderous Ark shell.
- More than seven species of the Ark shells are found in the Galveston Bay region.
- The oldest records about ark shells are found in Fishery Production List of 1814.
Synonyms
sanctuary, place of shelter, refuge, accommodation, housing, home, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house
4A low hut used to house livestock, often incorporating a covered run.
we reassembled the pig ark in preparation for our spring arrivals
poultry arks make useful supervised runs for guinea pigs
Example sentencesExamples
- Next to Alf were two brothers who had a larger acreage, and they made it into a poultry farm using mobile arks or hen-houses for the birds.
- We moved the laying hens into the small ark yesterday.
- The Government measures aim to reduce the visual impact of shackery (makeshift farm buildings), such as pig arks, caravans and cowsheds.
- On Saturday we finished the fencing, stapling sheep netting to the rails, and on Sunday gave the pig ark and the old chook ark a coat of water-based preservative.
- We stopped counting the hens in their ark at night once the new arrivals had settled in - we'll now start doing so again.
- The Welsh Black Cattle and Jacob Sheep all graze freely with their young, and the Oxford Sandy and Black Pigs are also free-range, with pig arks for shelter.

Phrases

be out of (or have gone out with) the ark

informal Be very old-fashioned.
the lessons were boring and taught by somebody out of the ark
this kind of variety entertainment went out with the ark
这种杂耍表演早就过时了。
Example sentencesExamples
- And besides, jokes about religion went out with the ark and are unlikely to be resurrected in modern Britain.
- Creases like these went out with the ark and I am not walking down the street like this.
- And the last non en-suite bathroom at a country inn went out with the ark!
- The mechanic did ask me how long it was since I last looked under the hood of a car, and then told me how such mechanical devices went out with the ark...
- But things didn't go quite according to plan: the big break turned into a permanent career break for the trio, who, over two decades later, come together to relive the past - and some comedy routines that came out of the ark.
Synonyms
banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, overused, well worn

Origin

Old English ærc, from Latin arca 'chest'.

Aerc was the Old English word for a chest, from Latin arca ‘a chest or box’. This developed into ark, as in the Ark of the Covenant, the wooden chest in which the tablets of the laws of the ancient Israelites were kept, and the Holy Ark in a synagogue, a chest, or cupboard which contained the scrolls of the Torah or Hebrew scriptures. A ship may be thought of as a floating container, hence Noah's Ark, the vessel built by Noah to escape the Flood. The Latin word is also the source of arcane (mid 16th century), which describes something hidden, concealed, or secret, as if it were shut up in a box, which only a few people can open.

Rhymes

arc, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach

Definition of ark in US English:

ark

nounɑrkärk

1the ark(in the Bible) the ship built by Noah to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the Flood; Noah's ark.
（《圣经》中诺亚为家人和每对动物躲避洪水而造的）方舟；诺亚方舟
1. 1.1 A vessel or sanctuary that serves as protection against extinction.
  a starship ark built by their android protectors
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well the scheme to create a kind of genetic ark is well underway at Taronga Zoo and Monash University in Melbourne.
  A Cornish claypit has been transformed into an Eden where over 4,000 species of plants from all over the world flourish under a series of great domes, creating a kind of botanical ark.
  With the earlier naturalization of the shad, and later addition of the striped bass, the second aquarium car was a sort of piscine ark.
  A huge interstellar ark arrives in orbit around a star and the humans discover to their surprise that there's intelligent life on one of the planets.
  Then we will escape the sun on mighty space arks and spread our glorious species throughout the galaxy!
2. 1.2archaic A chest or box.
  the ark was of Italian walnut
  Example sentencesExamples
  As previously mentioned we've decided to buy a bigger Forsham ark to accommodate our planned additional hens.
  They take much more folding and manipulating than the broadsheets used to when used to line the bottom of the hens' ark.
  All traces of the ark, the sacred chest that Moses had built by divine instruction to safeguard the tablets of the law, were lost after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 587 BC.
3. 1.3archaic A large, flat-bottomed boat.
  Example sentencesExamples
  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
  So many of the chapters offer versions of the ark, boats built for human survival against the storms of God and/or nature.
  Irving Berlin sailed in his beloved ark to the age of 101.
2
short for Ark of the Covenant
1. 2.1 A chest or cupboard housing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue.
  （犹太教教堂中存放《摩西五经》经卷的）藏经箱，藏经柜
  Example sentencesExamples
  Three Holy Arks are set into the thick southern wall with a colorful rose window above them.
  Likewise, a room to contain the various Holy Arks that store the many Torah scrolls used on Mondays and Thursdays, Shabbatot and Festivals at the Western Wall will be built in one of the halls adjacent to the prayer hall.
  The woodwork of the Aron Hakodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torah is stored, is original.
  This symbol, which also appears above Holy Arks, originates in the Bible: ‘He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust ".
  In 1953 they pictured Holy Arks from synagogues in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Petah Tikvah, and Safed.
  The synagogue possesses two Aron Hakodeshim (Holy Arks) on the eastern front, where the entrance is.
  The Holy Ark was made of cedar wood covered with gold (in essence a wooden box between two gold ones).
  Surprisingly, similar domes were found on the two Holy Arks in Livorno on the western coast of Italy.
  When his eye caught sight of the Holy Ark, he put down his broom and approached it.
  The bold phrase from the Psalms stands in relief over most Holy Arks in the synagogues.
  There were two Arons (Holy Arks) in the camp of Israel.
  In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues.
  Donated by New York financier and philanthropist Ira Rennert, the new Holy Ark was designed by Avraham Avargel - the same architect who constructed the large Ark at the Western Wall plaza.
  Traces of Holy Arks, between the three openings, were discovered as well.
  There are six arches on each side of the Holy Ark corresponding to the number of books of the Mishna; each arch has a pole with five bulbs representing the five books of the Torah.
3A widely distributed bivalve mollusk that typically attaches itself to rocks with byssus threads.
赤贝，蚶
Order Arcoidea: Arca and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
- A test of genetic population structure showed that the ark shell in Korea formed a large genetic group.
- More than seven species of the Ark shells are found in the Galveston Bay region.
- The oldest records about ark shells are found in Fishery Production List of 1814.
- The Twisted Ark Shell has a nearly paper-thin, delicate shell, which is substantially larger than the smaller strong, heavy shell of the Ponderous Ark shell.
- Our primary goals are to characterize patterns of morphological variation within and between geminate arks and evaluate the utility of shell shape for distinguishing between recent geminate species.
Synonyms
sanctuary, place of shelter, refuge, accommodation, housing, home, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house

Origin

Old English ærc, from Latin arca ‘chest’.

词汇	ark
释义	Definition of ark in English: ark noun ɑːkɑrk 1the ark(in the Bible) the ship built by Noah to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the Flood; Noah's ark. （《圣经》中诺亚为家人和每对动物躲避洪水而造的）方舟；诺亚方舟 1.1archaic A ship or boat. 船，舰 Example sentencesExamples So many of the chapters offer versions of the ark, boats built for human survival against the storms of God and/or nature. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. Irving Berlin sailed in his beloved ark to the age of 101. 2 short for Ark of the Covenant 2.1 A chest or cupboard housing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue. （犹太教教堂中存放《摩西五经》经卷的）藏经箱，藏经柜 Example sentencesExamples Traces of Holy Arks, between the three openings, were discovered as well. There are six arches on each side of the Holy Ark corresponding to the number of books of the Mishna; each arch has a pole with five bulbs representing the five books of the Torah. In 1953 they pictured Holy Arks from synagogues in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Petah Tikvah, and Safed. This symbol, which also appears above Holy Arks, originates in the Bible: ‘He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust ". There were two Arons (Holy Arks) in the camp of Israel. The woodwork of the Aron Hakodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torah is stored, is original. Three Holy Arks are set into the thick southern wall with a colorful rose window above them. The bold phrase from the Psalms stands in relief over most Holy Arks in the synagogues. Donated by New York financier and philanthropist Ira Rennert, the new Holy Ark was designed by Avraham Avargel - the same architect who constructed the large Ark at the Western Wall plaza. The synagogue possesses two Aron Hakodeshim (Holy Arks) on the eastern front, where the entrance is. When his eye caught sight of the Holy Ark, he put down his broom and approached it. Likewise, a room to contain the various Holy Arks that store the many Torah scrolls used on Mondays and Thursdays, Shabbatot and Festivals at the Western Wall will be built in one of the halls adjacent to the prayer hall. Surprisingly, similar domes were found on the two Holy Arks in Livorno on the western coast of Italy. The Holy Ark was made of cedar wood covered with gold (in essence a wooden box between two gold ones). In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues. 3A small bivalve mollusc which attaches itself to rocks with byssus threads. 赤贝，蚶 Order Arcoidea: Arca and other genera Example sentencesExamples A test of genetic population structure showed that the ark shell in Korea formed a large genetic group. Our primary goals are to characterize patterns of morphological variation within and between geminate arks and evaluate the utility of shell shape for distinguishing between recent geminate species. The Twisted Ark Shell has a nearly paper-thin, delicate shell, which is substantially larger than the smaller strong, heavy shell of the Ponderous Ark shell. More than seven species of the Ark shells are found in the Galveston Bay region. The oldest records about ark shells are found in Fishery Production List of 1814. Synonyms sanctuary, place of shelter, refuge, accommodation, housing, home, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house 4A low hut used to house livestock, often incorporating a covered run. we reassembled the pig ark in preparation for our spring arrivals poultry arks make useful supervised runs for guinea pigs Example sentencesExamples Next to Alf were two brothers who had a larger acreage, and they made it into a poultry farm using mobile arks or hen-houses for the birds. We moved the laying hens into the small ark yesterday. The Government measures aim to reduce the visual impact of shackery (makeshift farm buildings), such as pig arks, caravans and cowsheds. On Saturday we finished the fencing, stapling sheep netting to the rails, and on Sunday gave the pig ark and the old chook ark a coat of water-based preservative. We stopped counting the hens in their ark at night once the new arrivals had settled in - we'll now start doing so again. The Welsh Black Cattle and Jacob Sheep all graze freely with their young, and the Oxford Sandy and Black Pigs are also free-range, with pig arks for shelter. Phrases be out of (or have gone out with) the ark informal Be very old-fashioned. the lessons were boring and taught by somebody out of the ark this kind of variety entertainment went out with the ark 这种杂耍表演早就过时了。 Example sentencesExamples And besides, jokes about religion went out with the ark and are unlikely to be resurrected in modern Britain. Creases like these went out with the ark and I am not walking down the street like this. And the last non en-suite bathroom at a country inn went out with the ark! The mechanic did ask me how long it was since I last looked under the hood of a car, and then told me how such mechanical devices went out with the ark... But things didn't go quite according to plan: the big break turned into a permanent career break for the trio, who, over two decades later, come together to relive the past - and some comedy routines that came out of the ark. Synonyms banal, trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, predictable, stereotyped, platitudinous, inane, fatuous, vapid, jejune, weak, feeble, tired, stale, overworked, overused, well worn Origin Old English ærc, from Latin arca 'chest'. Aerc was the Old English word for a chest, from Latin arca ‘a chest or box’. This developed into ark, as in the Ark of the Covenant, the wooden chest in which the tablets of the laws of the ancient Israelites were kept, and the Holy Ark in a synagogue, a chest, or cupboard which contained the scrolls of the Torah or Hebrew scriptures. A ship may be thought of as a floating container, hence Noah's Ark, the vessel built by Noah to escape the Flood. The Latin word is also the source of arcane (mid 16th century), which describes something hidden, concealed, or secret, as if it were shut up in a box, which only a few people can open. Rhymes arc, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, macaque, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach noun.1 phr. Definition of ark in US English: ark nounɑrkärk 1the ark(in the Bible) the ship built by Noah to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the Flood; Noah's ark. （《圣经》中诺亚为家人和每对动物躲避洪水而造的）方舟；诺亚方舟 1.1 A vessel or sanctuary that serves as protection against extinction. a starship ark built by their android protectors Example sentencesExamples Well the scheme to create a kind of genetic ark is well underway at Taronga Zoo and Monash University in Melbourne. A Cornish claypit has been transformed into an Eden where over 4,000 species of plants from all over the world flourish under a series of great domes, creating a kind of botanical ark. With the earlier naturalization of the shad, and later addition of the striped bass, the second aquarium car was a sort of piscine ark. A huge interstellar ark arrives in orbit around a star and the humans discover to their surprise that there's intelligent life on one of the planets. Then we will escape the sun on mighty space arks and spread our glorious species throughout the galaxy! 1.2archaic A chest or box. the ark was of Italian walnut Example sentencesExamples As previously mentioned we've decided to buy a bigger Forsham ark to accommodate our planned additional hens. They take much more folding and manipulating than the broadsheets used to when used to line the bottom of the hens' ark. All traces of the ark, the sacred chest that Moses had built by divine instruction to safeguard the tablets of the law, were lost after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 587 BC. 1.3archaic A large, flat-bottomed boat. Example sentencesExamples And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. So many of the chapters offer versions of the ark, boats built for human survival against the storms of God and/or nature. Irving Berlin sailed in his beloved ark to the age of 101. 2 short for Ark of the Covenant 2.1 A chest or cupboard housing the Torah scrolls in a synagogue. （犹太教教堂中存放《摩西五经》经卷的）藏经箱，藏经柜 Example sentencesExamples Three Holy Arks are set into the thick southern wall with a colorful rose window above them. Likewise, a room to contain the various Holy Arks that store the many Torah scrolls used on Mondays and Thursdays, Shabbatot and Festivals at the Western Wall will be built in one of the halls adjacent to the prayer hall. The woodwork of the Aron Hakodesh, the Holy Ark in which the Torah is stored, is original. This symbol, which also appears above Holy Arks, originates in the Bible: ‘He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust ". In 1953 they pictured Holy Arks from synagogues in the Israeli cities of Jerusalem, Petah Tikvah, and Safed. The synagogue possesses two Aron Hakodeshim (Holy Arks) on the eastern front, where the entrance is. The Holy Ark was made of cedar wood covered with gold (in essence a wooden box between two gold ones). Surprisingly, similar domes were found on the two Holy Arks in Livorno on the western coast of Italy. When his eye caught sight of the Holy Ark, he put down his broom and approached it. The bold phrase from the Psalms stands in relief over most Holy Arks in the synagogues. There were two Arons (Holy Arks) in the camp of Israel. In the sixteenth century the vessels of the Tabernacle motif appeared on the inner sides of the doors of the Holy Arks in Synagogues. Donated by New York financier and philanthropist Ira Rennert, the new Holy Ark was designed by Avraham Avargel - the same architect who constructed the large Ark at the Western Wall plaza. Traces of Holy Arks, between the three openings, were discovered as well. There are six arches on each side of the Holy Ark corresponding to the number of books of the Mishna; each arch has a pole with five bulbs representing the five books of the Torah. 3A widely distributed bivalve mollusk that typically attaches itself to rocks with byssus threads. 赤贝，蚶 Order Arcoidea: Arca and other genera Example sentencesExamples A test of genetic population structure showed that the ark shell in Korea formed a large genetic group. More than seven species of the Ark shells are found in the Galveston Bay region. The oldest records about ark shells are found in Fishery Production List of 1814. The Twisted Ark Shell has a nearly paper-thin, delicate shell, which is substantially larger than the smaller strong, heavy shell of the Ponderous Ark shell. Our primary goals are to characterize patterns of morphological variation within and between geminate arks and evaluate the utility of shell shape for distinguishing between recent geminate species. Synonyms sanctuary, place of shelter, refuge, accommodation, housing, home, place of safety, haven, safe haven, sanctum, safe house Origin Old English ærc, from Latin arca ‘chest’.
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