Definitions for ARK
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Ark, Ark of the Covenantnoun

   (Judaism) sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments

2. arknoun

   a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. arknoun

   A large box with a flat lid.

2. arknoun

   The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.

3. arknoun

   Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge

4. arknoun

   A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.

5. arknoun

   A consecrated container.

6. Arknoun

   The boat built by the Biblical Noah to carry himself and the animals of the planet during the w:Flood; (see w:Noah's Ark)

7. Arknoun

   The chest carried by the Hebrews containing the stone tablets carved with the Ten Commandments; (see w:Ark of the Covenant)

8. Etymology: From ærc, from arca, from arcere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Arknoun

   Etymology: arca, Lat. a chest.

   1. A vessel to swim upon the water, usually applied to that in which Noah was preserved from the universal deluge.

   Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without. Gen. vi. 14.

   The one just man alive, by his command,
   Shall build a wond’rous ark, as thou beheld’st,
   To save himself and houshold, from amidst
   A world devote to universal wreck. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. xi.

   2. The repository of the covenant of God with the Jews.

   This coffer was of shittim wood, covered with plates or leaves of gold, being two cubits and an half in length, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. It had two rings of gold on each side, through which the staves were put for carrying it. Upon the top of it was a kind of gold crown all around it, and two cherubim were fastened to the cover. It contained the two tables of stone, written by the hand of God. Augustin Calmet.

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1. ark

   An ark is a vessel or sanctuary that serves as a protection against extinction or destruction. In a religious context, it often refers to the vessel in which Noah, his family, and a range of animals were saved from the biblical flood, as told in the book of Genesis. It can also refer to the Ark of the Covenant, a gold-covered wooden chest described in the Bible as containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Arknoun

   a chest, or coffer

2. Arknoun

   the oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant

3. Arknoun

   the large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge

4. Arknoun

   a large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market

5. Etymology: [OE. ark, arke, arche, AS. arc, earc, earce, fr. L. arca, fr. arcere to inclose, keep off; akin to Gr. 'arkei^n to keep off.]

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1. Ark

   The Ark is an Autobot spacecraft in the Transformers Universe. It has appeared as a central fixture of the Transformers storyline ever since its creation, as the Autobots main method of transport to Earth and as a base once they arrive.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Ark

   ärk, n. a chest or coffer: in Jewish history, the wooden coffer in which the Tables of the Law were kept—hence To touch or Lay hands on the ark, to touch irreverently what is sacred (2 Sam. vi. 6): a large floating vessel, like that in which Noah escaped the Deluge (Gen. vi.-viii.).—adj. and n. Ark′ite. [A.S. arc—L. arca, a chest—arcēre, to guard.]

CrunchBaseRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Ark

   Ark.com formerly mReplay is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion social network profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world. Prior to founding Ark, our team has experience at Google, AOL, Symantec, Lithium, Yahoo! Research and Y-Combinator.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ark

   The sacred and capacious vessel built by Noah for preservation against the flood. It was 300 cubits in length, 50 in breadth, and 30 in height; and of whatever materials it was constructed, it was pitched over or pay'd with bitumen. Ark is also the name of a mare's-tail cloud, or cirrhus, when it forms a streak across the sky.

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1. ark

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2. ARK

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ARK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Ark is ranked #54864 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Ark surname appeared 375 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Ark.
   
   65% or 244 total occurrences were White.
   27.2% or 102 total occurrences were Asian.
   4% or 15 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.1% or 8 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Judaism
   • Boat
   • Chest

Anagrams for ARK »

1. AKR

2. RKA

3. kra

How to pronounce ARK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say ARK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ARK in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ARK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of ARK in a Sentence

1. Steve Beshear:

   We expect any entity that accepts state incentives not to discriminate on any basis in hiring, while the leaders of Ark Encounter had previously agreed not to discriminate in hiring based on religion, they now refuse to make that commitment and it has become apparent that they do intend to use religious beliefs as a litmus test for hiring decisions. For that reason, we cannot proceed with the tourism incentive application for the Ark Encounter project.

2. J. Willard Marriott:

   fight like you're the third monkey trying to get on Noah’s ark.” And brother it's starting to rain

3. Thomas Jefferson:

   Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

4. Howard Ruff:

   It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

5. Johan Huibers ':

   I hope that visitors will learn of true hope, [I hope] to see happy faces, explain the story of the Ark as a tool of God to give hope to mankind.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ARK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ark
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ARK
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ARK
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ARK
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ARK
8. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ark
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=ARK
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html