ARK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ark" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Ark; Ark of the Covenant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

chest (box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Credits

Context examples:

Although there were more gods involved than in Genesis, and the Babylonian hero had a different name, the two stories were recognisably the same, with animals taken aboard the ark before the flood and birds sent out at the end once the rain stopped.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###