Bark may refer to:
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Bark (botany)
Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays the wood and consist ...
, an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick
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Bark (sound)
A bark is a sound most commonly produced from dogs. Other animals that make this noise include, but are not limited to, wolves, coyotes, foxes, seals and barking owls. Woof is the most common onomatopoeia in the English language for this so ...
, a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)
Places
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Bark, Germany
Bark is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
References
Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein
Segeberg
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Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Bark'' (Jefferson Airplane album), 1971
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Bark (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album)
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''Bark'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Lorrie Moore
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Bark!
''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it w ...
'', a 2002 film
* ''Bark!'', a magazine published by
Canada Wide Media
Canada Wide Media Limited is an independently owned publishing company in Western Canada, based in Burnaby, British Columbia.
History
Canada Wide Media Limited co-founder and CEO Peter Legge purchased a ten-cent magazine in 1976 and grew it in ...
* Bark the Polar Bear, a character in the ''
Sonic the Hedgehog
is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
'' series
Brands and enterprises
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BARK (computer)
BARK () was an early electromechanical computer. BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 registers and 100 ...
, a computer
Food
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Almond bark
Almond bark (also known as vanilla flavored candy coating) is a chocolate-like confection made with vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and with coloring and flavors added. It can be bought in packages, blocks, or round discs where candy and ...
, a confection
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Peppermint bark
Peppermint bark is a chocolate confection. Generally it consists of peppermint candy pieces, such as candy canes, in white chocolate on top of dark chocolate, but peppermint bark can refer to any chocolate with peppermint candy pieces in it.
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, a confection
Science
* βARK,
Beta adrenergic receptor kinase
G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''ADRBK1'' gene. GRK2 was initially called Beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (βARK or βARK1), and is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor kinase subfa ...
, an intracellular enzyme
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Bark scale
The Bark scale is a psychoacoustical scale proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961. It is named after Heinrich Barkhausen who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.Zwicker, E. (1961),Subdivision of the audible frequency range into ...
, an auditory frequency metric
Other uses
* Bark or
barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts having the fore- and mainmasts Square rig, rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) Fore-and-aft rig, rigged fore and aft. Som ...
, a type of sailing ship
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BARK (organization)
BARK is an Oregon, United States, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say cause "commercial destruction" in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Fore ...
, an environmentalist organization in the U.S. state of Oregon
See also
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Barkeria
''Barkeria'', abbreviated Bark in horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids. It consists of about 17 currently recognized (May 2014) species native to Mexico and Central America. This genus was once considered part of ''Epidendrum''. Type specie ...
'', an orchid genus
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