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# ark

«ark» in Mova's school dictionary: **Noah's ark was the huge wooden boat Noah built to save…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an ark, arks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (Bible) Noah's ark was the huge wooden boat Noah built to save his family and two of every kind of animal from the great flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m1)

2) (Bible) The Ark of the Covenant was a gold-covered wooden box that held the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m2)

3) (Judaism) The ark (Holy Ark) is the cupboard in a synagogue where the Torah scrolls are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m3)

4) In some old southern stories, an ark is a large wooden box or chest for keeping things in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Children's toy arks have animals walking in two by two. The story ends with a rainbow, God's promise never to flood the earth again. In jokes, "out of the ark" means very old-fashioned. Phrases: Noah's ark, the Ark of the Covenant, two by two into the ark, went out with the ark.

### examples

- Noah built the ark out of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x1)
- The animals went into the ark two by two. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x2)
- The ark floated for many days on the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x3)
- My little brother has a wooden ark with pairs of animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x4)
- The Ark of the Covenant held the Ten Commandments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x5)
- The Torah scrolls are kept in the ark at the synagogue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x6)
- Dad's jokes are so old they came out of the ark! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/#x7)

### note

Countable: an ark (use "an"). Homophone: arc (part of a circle in maths, or a curved line like a rainbow's arc). The rainbow at the end of Noah's story makes an arc.

### In the corpora

- [Noah was a good man in a violent world whom God told to build a great boat, the ark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/6/)
- [The ark carried Noah's family and pairs of every kind of animal through the flood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/7/)
- [In the story, rain fell for forty days and the waters covered the earth; everything outside the ark was lost.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/3-noah-and-the-tower-of-babel/8/)
- [David danced with joy before God when the Ark of the Covenant was brought to Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/6/)
- [there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.180/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ark» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ark/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.