What's the difference between hark and nark?

Hark


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To listen; to hearken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A lot of the problems hark back to these unscrupulous brokers who didn’t have any real interest in education.
  • (2) He said Indians today were of a new generation and were no longer nervous of such harkings-back to the past which represented no threat.” The diplomat - who went on to be Britain’s ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan - enclosed a press cutting from the Times of India, headlined “Rushdie’s Complaint”.
  • (3) He harks back to an age when cricket was part of the country's cultural life in a way it no longer is.
  • (4) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
  • (5) There are some, particularly younger African American activists, who blame black civil rights leaders for harking back to old traditions, rather than seeking new bridges.
  • (6) In court Cregan and Wilkinson admitted the attack but denied actively trying to murder the occupant, Sharon Hark, who the prosecution claimed belonged to a family with whom Cregan had a grievance.
  • (7) The story harked back to the county’s tobacco plantation past – but it was dominated by images of successful African Americans enjoying their yachts, golf courses and gated communities.
  • (8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
  • (9) Jermaine Ward, 24, was found guilty of the murder of David Short but cleared of the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (10) Constâncio also harked back to the 1930s, when German philosopher Edmund Husserl warned that Europe faced an existential crisis that would either destroy it, or see it reborn.
  • (11) This view is underpinned by a deeper sense of historical purpose, harking back to Margaret Thatcher’s governments.
  • (12) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (13) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
  • (14) It harks back to a time before gay went mainstream, before Will and Grace, before Queer As Folk, before the age of gay romcoms like Adam and Steve.
  • (15) Eureka has gentrified a lot since then, but still has a colourful edge that harks back to pioneer days.
  • (16) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
  • (17) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
  • (18) The heavy-handed 'stop and search' activity outside London tube stations harks back to a period before the Lawrence inquiry and raises questions about racial profiling in immigration control."
  • (19) He was cleared of one count of the attempted murder of Sharon Hark on the same day and cleared of causing an explosion with a hand-grenade.
  • (20) I think we’re harking back to a world that probably didn’t exist.

Nark


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our clone also contained a previously unidentified gene, which we propose to designate as narX, as well as a portion of narK.
  • (2) The phosphorylation of phosphoinositides in the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes from the electroplax of the electric fish Narke japonica has been examined.
  • (3) A narK deletion mutant, under conditions for the induction of nitrate respiration, was unable to perform nitrate transport.
  • (4) Loss of transport activity was recovered by transforming the mutant with a narK+ plasmid.
  • (5) We have isolated a tyrosine-specific protein kinase from the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes of the electric ray Narke japonica.
  • (6) We could not find the active (Na,K)-ATPase lacking glycoprotein subunit for the enzymes from three different sources (outer medulla of dog kidney, electric organs of Narke japonica and larvae of Artemia salina).
  • (7) Primer extension analysis identified several transcripts for the narK gene expressed from plasmids.
  • (8) IHF and Fis proteins are also required for full activation of narK expression, and their roles in DNA bending are discussed.
  • (9) Unlike the narGHJI operon, the 5' untranslated region of the narK gene contains two putative Fnr-binding-site sequences and two putative NarL-binding-site sequences.
  • (10) The asymmetric forms of acetylcholinesterase were purified from the electric organs of the electric rays Narke japonica and Torpedo californica, and their properties were compared.
  • (11) The vast majority [of businesses] are doing the right thing and, frankly, they are as narked as we are about the fact there are some people and businesses who are not doing the right thing.
  • (12) A Cl- channel in electric organs of Narke japonica was reconfirmed, using a polyclonal antibody, to be a 180k protein composed of two identical 90k units.
  • (13) Finally, the availability of molybdate and iron ions is necessary for optimal narK expression, whereas the availability of nitrite is not.
  • (14) The ORFA-narZ intergenic region, however, is about 80 nucleotides long and does not contain the cis-acting elements, NarL and Fnr boxes, nor the terC4 terminator sequence present in the 500 nucleotide narK-narG intergenic region.
  • (15) A phi (narK-lacZ) operon fusion was induced by nitrate, and its expression was fully dependent on narL+ and fnr+.
  • (16) Cripps was merely a temporary repository for a public narked off with all politicians: Clegg will have to show that he is more than that if he really is going to rival Churchill.
  • (17) Although the specific activities of nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase were similar in the two strains, the parental strain accumulated nitrite in the medium in almost stoichiometric amounts before it was further reduced, while the narK mutant did not accumulate nitrite in the medium but apparently reduced it as rapidly as it was formed.
  • (18) Acetylcholine receptor from Narke japonica electroplax exhibits a fluorescence change upon binding of snake neurotoxins.
  • (19) The effect of both acetylcholine (ACh) and pancreozymin (CCK-Pz) on the pancreas in vivo as well as in vitro was to reduce both the acinar cell membrane potential and the input resistance narkedly.
  • (20) Although the role of the narK gene product in cell metabolism remains uncertain, the pattern of narK gene expression is consistent with a proposed role of NarK in nitrate uptake by the cell for nitrate-linked electron transport.

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