lark

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I've worn a suit around the house on a lark, I wear ties to a n office where T-shirts are the norm.

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North American songbirds having a yellow breast

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noun

North American songbirds having a yellow breast

noun

a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

noun

any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lark.

noun

North American songbirds having a yellow breast

noun

a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

noun

any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

noun

any carefree episode

verb

play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

Example sentences

I've worn a suit around the house on a lark, I wear ties to a n office where T-shirts are the norm.

Dell should be fretting over the things we don't have the ability to change on a lark.

At first it was just a lark, getting a big group of people to come out and visit this funny kid and his arcade.

The lark and owl distinction has been driving me crazy since I thought about my sleeping habits.

Regardless, it sounds like writing poetry suggests a romantic lark to you.

One thing is for certain though, that grand reveal will happen and, when it does, this NSA spying lark will be put into perspective.

Its a stupid thing when someone who watched a movie thinks this is actually possible and tries to re-create it on a lark.

I do not experience worse sleep compared to normal people, and in my experience my sleep pattern seems to work better than most larks.

For a lark I'm going to take an old project that has been running for years without a hitch and I'm going to retro-actively add tests to the code.

While much of the embarrassment is on the US, the Snowden lark puts the UK in a very exposed piggy in the middle position where we might get forced to pick sides.

And of course if your job is tied to a project, the very last thing you're going to say is, "No reason, actually this is a pretty silly lark if you ask me." So folks start coming up with hypothetical adversaries, and starts inventing war games and conducting exercises built around these hypotheses.

As a lark, I've put infinite loops into such apps that do nothing but allocate new objects, and unless you are doing an exceptionally intense operation, you couldn't tell the difference.

It just takes jabs and offers a few poor alternatives.~~~The author mentions he uses iCloud instead of Gmail, but doesn't actually say why there would be any material difference between the two. I know that alternatives to Gmail exist, but I need to know why I'd want to change my email address for more than a lark.~~~The author claims DuckDuckGo is "fantastic", but gives zero reasons why except for different search results.