Bork vs. Bark

To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.

To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.

To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.

(informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.

The sound a dog makes.

obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them

Example: ‘‘We're going to bork him’, said an opponent’; ‘is fear of borking scaring people from public office?’;

(intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).

Example: ‘The neighbour's dog is always barking.’; ‘The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.’;

(intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

(transitive) To speak sharply.

Example: ‘The sergeant barked an order.’;

To strip the bark from; to peel.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.

Example: ‘to bark one’s heel’;

To girdle.

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

Example: ‘bark the roof of a hut’;

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.

(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.

The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.

The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.

(poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

(nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

To strip the bark from; to peel.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; - said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

Example: ‘They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics.’; ‘Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.’;

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

a noise resembling the bark of a dog

a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts

the sound made by a dog

speak in an unfriendly tone;

Example: ‘She barked into the dictaphone’;

cover with bark

remove the bark of a tree

make barking sounds;

Example: ‘The dogs barked at the stranger’;

tan (a skin) with bark tannins