(n.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidae). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and usually, dull, sandy brown colors.
(v. i.) To catch larks; as, to go larking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
(2) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(3) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(4) Explaining why they continue to increase the size of the UN consolidated appeal each year, despite not acheiving full funding year-on-year, Larke said: “We base our ask on the real needs we assess, not on the money we expect to get - to do so the other way round would be dishonest.
(5) This is Ferguson in his element, larking about with a world-class footballer whose development he has overseen from the star's late teenage years.
(6) Lacking self-confidence and plagued by ill-health, she was hospitalised several times during the 1950s, and took failure hard, blaming herself in particular for the lack of success of Jean Anouilh's The Lark, in which she starred as St Joan in 1955.
(7) I look at my Instagram the week before [the tweets], and I was happy as a lark.
(8) And all three looked as if they were ready to Snapchat their larking pose to all their schoolfriends.
(9) It’s not just readers who nonetheless see North Korea as a bit of a lark.
(10) Someone suggested speaking to a newsagent in Lark Lane, others a supermarket in Lodge Lane that reflects the multi-ethnic nature of Toxteth.
(11) Thinking it was quite a lark we joined in and the ensuing 10-minute interval on the hallowed turf was a carnival atmosphere with much fun had by all, the highlight being the conga lines dancing to the chant of 'Bulstrode is a wanker'.
(12) We see the upturned faces of the soldiers as they look for the larks in one of Rosenberg's most famous poems, "Returning, We Hear the Larks".
(13) Studies of Maaløe, Lark, and others with amino acid- and thymine-starved cultures revealed successive steps in the biosynthesis of Escherichia coli chromosomes.
(14) Among the rareties: ivory gull, sharp-tailed sandpiper, lark sparrow and warblers from every corner of the western hemisphere.
(15) Ah, another opportunity for Hairy Dave to lark about the dancefloor in a comedy fashion.
(16) It’s quite probable that a large number of these “signatures” are some combination of a lark and the same yahoos signing multiple times.
(17) * A soft siffle, high in the air like a distant lark, or the note of a penny whistle, faint and falling.
(18) Then Antiques Roadshow drew 6.92 million (26.4%) in the next hour, while Lark Rise to Candleford had 6.31 million (23%) in the 8pm hour.
(19) I fantasise that maybe one of those people will read the article and think "I'm going to give this gaming lark a try" and that they will buy a console on their way home from work, and that it'll change their life for the better.
(20) Seemingly spontaneous holiday larks abound; we're one puddle of purple vomit away from the dream Brits abroad weekend.
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.