Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PERK

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Definitions of PERK

1. A percolator, particularly of coffee.
2. (dated) To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
3. (dialectal) To examine thoroughly.
4. (informal) Perquisite.
5. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
6. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
7. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
8. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
9. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
11. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
12. (obsolete) To perch.

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Examples of Using PERK in a Sentence

• There was political sensitivity at government level about the project, with some concerned that it could be depicted as a lavish "perk" for the Taoiseach.
• At the Central Perk coffee shop, Monica Geller is teased by her friends, Phoebe Buffay, Chandler Bing and Joey Tribbiani, about going out with someone and claiming it is not a date.
• Perk also appointed Richard Eberling in 1973 to chair a committee to redecorate the mayor's office in City Hall, a move that proved unpopular with numerous sources.
• In "The One with the Baby on the Bus", Phoebe is temporarily replaced as the primary singer for Central Perk by a professional singer named Stephanie Schiffer, played by singer Chrissie Hynde.
• The crowdfunded movie Lazer Team gave challenge coins to its backers as an optional perk of funding the movie.
• He appeared in the unaired pilot satire sitcom Nobody's Watching, playing himself on the set of Central Perk.
• The name "PERQ" was chosen both as an acronym of "Pascal Engine that Runs Quicker," and to evoke the word perquisite commonly called a perk, that is an additional employee benefit.
• Notable sonnet cycles have been written by France Prešeren, Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Pierre de Ronsard, Edmund Spenser, Rupert Brooke, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Justus de Harduwijn, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Hans Irrigmann, Jacques Perk, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Edna St.
• Dye was also Auburn's athletic director from 1981 to 1991, a perk Ralph "Shug" Jordan did not enjoy during his 25-year tenure (1951–75), which saw the stadium named in his honor.
• An emergency kit, disaster bag, bug-out bag (BOB), also known as a 72-hour kit, GOOD bag (get out of Dodge), personal emergency relocation kit (PERK), go-bag, survival backpack, or quick run bag (QRB) is a portable kit containing items that would help a person to survive for 72 hours during an escape or evacuation from an emergency event or disaster such as a hurricane, earthquake, or flood.
• It consists of Akuma, Awol One, Circus, Die Young, Existereo, LA Jae, Life Rexall, Perk One, and Radioinactive.
• Until 1992, the camp was a vacation perk for high-ranking federal government officials, including Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and Vice President Walter Mondale, who was snowed in on one visit and had to be cut out by Secret Service officers with chainsaws.
• August Perk, German Resistance Fighter against the National Socialism, briefly Friendship with Erich Maria Remarque and had Influence on Remarques world-famous Novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", Grandfather of Johnny de Brest.
• Many of these stressors result in the activation of particular stress-associated kinases (HRI, PERK, PKR, and GCN2), translational inhibition and stress granule formation.
• She is now the brand ambassador of the soft drink Fanta (replacing Rani Mukherjee), the chocolate Perk (replacing Preity Zinta), Virgin Mobile India (along with Ranbir Kapoor), Fastrack watches and accessories, LG mobiles (along with John Abraham and Abhay Deol), Garnier Light fairness cream, Dabur Vatika hair oil, Margo soap, and Spinz deodorant.
• Ro Newton of Smash Hits considered "Rain or Shine" as "so slow and doddery that even mouth-to-mouth resuscitation couldn't perk it up".
• Employee benefit, also known as a perk, from perquisite: various non-wage compensations provided in addition to cash wages.
• James Michael Tyler was cast as Gunther because he was the only extra who could competently work the cappuccino machine on the Central Perk set.
• Robert Shelton in The New York Times, noting that the Clancys and Makem had yet to pick a professional name for themselves, suggested that "this group of Irish-American actor-singers" could "perk up our juke boxes and air waves" with their songs.
• While some perceived him as an aloof, effete romantic, his real-life personality was a gregarious ordinary beer drinking Joe who could walk the streets of Chicago blending in with every other blue collar man (despite owning one of the shiniest black Cadillacs in town, a self-earned perk).

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