I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dog barks (= makes short loud sounds )
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The dog barks every time someone comes to the door.
bark a command (= shout one rather rudely )
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She just stands there barking commands while everyone works.
barking mad
barking mad (= completely crazy )
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It’s enough to send you barking mad .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
shin
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Each time the driver braked or accelerated violently she was thrown off balance, barking her shins on various pieces of luggage.
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He jumped in, barking his shin on the car door.
tree
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In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree .
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However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree .
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People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree .
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They have maybe barked up the wrong tree .
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Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree ?
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Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I knocked on the door; the knocks barked sharply over stone floors.
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Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another, barking orders from time to time.
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One minute the coach was barking orders at kids kicking off down the field.
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Rin Tin Tin barked in sync, but the cowboys kept talking long after their mouths were closed.
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The symptoms are periodic spells of regression: They drop to all fours, bark , befoul their apartments.
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They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door.
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Was he about to bark out a reprimand? she wondered.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the bark of the guns
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Black too is a color, and the deep ridges of persimmon tree bark are an almost-black striated with dark gray.
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Despite appearances, its bark is definitely worse than its bite.
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Flat nostrils opened in the bark of its face.
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Guilt, cosmic guilt, stains the knobbly bark .
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The bark beetle in this tree does not kill them, unless they are going to die anyway.
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The slow, languid monologue was followed by yips, then by barks, and more howls.
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Their inner bark was used to cure frostbite.
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Wood and bark Wood and bark are essential constituents of a vast number of instruments.