different between zark vs park

English

Etymology

Coined by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).

Pronunciation

Interjection

zark

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.

Derived terms

• zarking
• zark off

English

Etymology

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in, under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pärk, IPA^(key): /p??k/
  • (General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): [pa?k]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [p??k]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [p??k]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [p??k]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [p??k]
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Noun

park (plural parks)

1. An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
   1. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
      • 17th century, Edmund Waller, At Penshurst

        While in the park I sing, the listening deer / Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

   2. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
      • 1994, Robert Ferro,The Blue Star:

        I roamed the streets and parks, as far removed from the idea of art and pretense as I could take myself, discovering there the kind of truth I was supposed to be setting down on paper…

   3. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
2. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
3. An area used for specific purposes.
   1. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

   2. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
   3. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
   4. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
4. (Britain) An inventory of matériel.

5. (Australia, New Zealand) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
   • 2003, “Johnny”, Melbourne Blackout, in Sleazegrinder (editor), Gigs from Hell: True Stories from Rock and Roll?s Frontline, page 174,

     We got to the 9^th Ward and as luck would have it I found a park for my bro?s car right out the front.

   • 2010, Sandy Curtis, Dangerous Deception, Clan Destine Press, Australia, unnumbered page,

     Once they?d entered the floors of parking spaces, James found a park relatively easily, but Mark had difficulty, and only a swift sprint allowed him to catch up as James walked through the throngs of people in the casino with the determination of a man who didn?t want to be delayed.

   • 2011, Antonia Magee, The Property Diaries: A Story of Buying a House, Finding a Man and Making a Home … All on a Single Income!, John Wiley & Sons Australia, unnumbered page,

     We finally found a park and walked a few blocks to the building.

Synonyms

• (a piece of ground in or near a city): courtyard, garden, plaza

Antonyms

• (a piece of ground in or near a city): building, skyscraper, street

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Georgian: ????? (?ar?i)
• ? Irish: páirc
• ? Japanese: ??? (p?ku)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: pàirc
• ? Welsh: parc

Translations

Verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

1. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

2. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.

3. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.

4. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, The First Part of King Henry the Sixth

     O, negligent and heedless discipline!

     How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,

     A little herd of England's timorous deer,

     Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

5. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run, to hit the ball out of the park.

6. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
7. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

8. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

9. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
10. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
11. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
12. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.

Antonyms

(bring to a halt): unpark

Derived terms

• park and ride, park-and-ride

Translations

References

• “Park” in James F. Dunnigan and Albert Nofi (1992), Dirty Little Secrets: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know, Harper, ?ISBN, p 28.
• Park in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• KPRA, Karp, Prak

Breton

Noun

park ?

1. field

Danish

Etymology

From French parc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?rk/, [p?????]

Noun

park c (singular definite parken, plural indefinite parker)

1. park

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch parc, from Old Dutch *parruk, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”). Doublet of perk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rk/
• Hyphenation: park
• Rhymes: -?rk

Noun

park n (plural parken, diminutive parkje n)

1. park

Derived terms

• attractiepark
• dierenpark
• kasteelpark
• lunapark
• nationaal park
• natuurpark
• parkopzichter
• parkwachter
• pretpark
• safaripark
• stadspark
• themapark
• vogelpark
• volkspark
• wagenpark
• wandelpark

Related terms

• perk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: park
• ? German: Park (partially)
  • ? Lower Sorbian: park
• ? West Frisian: park

German

Pronunciation

Verb

park

1. singular imperative of parken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of parken

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?rk]
• Rhymes: -?rk

Noun

park (plural parkok)

1. park

Declension

Derived terms

• nemzeti park

See also

• parkol

Further reading

• park in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parric (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/

Noun

park m

1. park (piece of ground, in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation)

Declension

Derived terms

• parkowy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• parc, parck, perke, paric

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French park.

Noun

park (plural parks)

1. enclosure

Descendants

• English: park
• Yola: park

References

• “park, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parker, definite plural parkene)

1. a park (preserved green open space, usually open to the public)

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin parricus, via French parc

Noun

park m (definite singular parken, indefinite plural parkar, definite plural parkane)

1. a park (as above)

Derived terms

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/

Noun

park m inan

1. park (e.g., a ground for recreation in a city or town)
2. (obsolete) A scent released by goats, deer, or hares during breeding periods.
3. (obsolete) Breeding period of goats, deer, or hares.

Declension

Further reading

• park in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pârk/

Noun

p?rk m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. park

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse parrak, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

park c (plural parker, definite singular parken, definite plural parkerna)

1. park (in a city)

Declension

Anagrams

• karp

Turkish

Etymology

From French parc.

Noun

park (definite accusative park?, plural parklar)

1. park

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English park.

Noun

park

1. a park, inclosure

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN