What's the difference between hark and wark?

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.

Wark


Definition:

  • (n.) Work; a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
  • (2) It was memorable for being the first time that hosts Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark , who always host the show on different nights, have presented a programme together since 1989, when they were working on Breakfast Time, according to the Times.
  • (3) Welby ducked a question on his personal views on gay marriage – which he has opposed in the past, though he told Pink News earlier this year that it was “great” parliament had passed the law – telling interviewer, Kirsty Wark, it would be inappropriate to speak of it while the church was debating the issue.
  • (4) Clements, who is married to Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, will join the company as the director of content for SMG's television business, STV, on September 15.
  • (5) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard, a former Sky News executive, include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, head of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (6) How does he cope with being referred to as Mr Kirsty Wark?
  • (7) Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight's best-known presenter, and Kirsty Wark, another programme veteran, and Helen Boaden, the BBC's "recused" director of news, are among those who have given evidence to Pollard, as have the reporter and producer at the centre of the storm about the axed Savile film – Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones.
  • (8) Imagine the leader of a UK political party, a potential prime minister, making these comments about Kirsty Wark or Theresa May.
  • (9) The inquiry has already heard evidence from Newsnight presenters Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, the programme editor Peter Rippon, director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (10) Strathclyde Police have confirmed that they are investigating a complaint against the independent producer Alan Clements and his wife, the Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, over an alleged incident of data theft.
  • (11) Ignatieff's fellow presenters included Sarah Dunant, Kirsty Wark, Matthew Collings, Clive James, Waldemar Januszczak, Mark Lawson and Tracey MacLeod.
  • (12) It will be reported about a new bifocal lens, that can be supplied with an additional prism in the near segment for close-range wark with an increased magnification up to +8.0 dpt.
  • (13) When Kirsty Wark tried a rather spluttery Newsnight interrogation of Glenn Greenwald , for instance, was that useful or irritating?
  • (14) According to sources at the Times, Washington correspondent Tim Reid and features writer Penny Wark are also due to leave, as is the head of business news Phil Robinson and reporter Elizabeth Judge.
  • (15) It was alleged in court that Mr Clements had instructed his then personal assistant Janice McKnight - who now works for Wark - to hack into the emails sent between his IWC colleagues, including Hamish Barbour.
  • (16) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (17) His views were robustly challenged by both the presenter, Kirsty Wark and the other participants in the discussion – Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain and Shams Ad-Duha Muhammad, the director of Ebrahim College."
  • (18) "We are also quite mystified that Kirsty Wark's name has been mentioned because she has not been accused of anything.
  • (19) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
  • (20) Alan Clements, one of Scotland's leading TV executives and the husband of Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, was left with legal bills of £450,000 yesterday after his former employer RDF Media won a legal action stopping him from moving to rivals SMG before December 2008.

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