Park vs. Perk — What's the Difference?

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities.

Become or make more cheerful, lively, or interesting

A piece of land with few or no buildings within or adjoining a town, maintained for recreational and ornamental purposes.

(with reference to coffee) percolate

A landscaped city square.

A benefit to which one is entitled because of one's job

A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.

A coffee percolator

A broad, fairly level valley between mountain ranges

To stick up or jut out

A tract of land attached to a country house, especially when including extensive gardens, woods, pastures, or a game preserve.

To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner.

(Sports)A stadium or an enclosed playing field

To cause to stick up quickly

An area where military vehicles or artillery are stored and serviced.

To percolate

The materiel kept in such an area.

Perky.

An area in or near a town designed and usually zoned for a certain purpose

A perquisite.

A position in an automatic transmission that disengages the gears and sets the brake so the vehicle cannot move

(informal) Perquisite.

To put or leave (a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.

(video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.

(Aerospace)To place (a spacecraft or satellite) in a usually temporary orbit.

A percolator, particularly of coffee.

(Informal)To place or leave temporarily

To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

To assemble (artillery or other equipment) in a military park.

Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.

To park a motor vehicle

(transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.

(Slang)To engage in kissing and caressing in a vehicle stopped in a secluded spot.

(intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.

An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.

To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.

A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

(dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.

A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.

(obsolete) To perch.

An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.

(obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

(US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

An area used for specific purposes.

To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.

An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

To peer; to look inquisitively.

A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.

An incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right);

An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.

Gain or regain energy;

(UK) An inventory of matériel.

A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.

(transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.

To defer (a matter) until a later date.

(transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.

(transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.

To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.

To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.

To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.

To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)

To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

To promenade or drive in a park.

To display style or gait on a park drive.

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.

A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.

A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.

A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.

Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement; also, the vehicles.

A position of the gear lever in a vehicle with automatic transmission, used when the vehicle is stopped, in which the transmission is in neutral and a brake is engaged.

To inclose in a park, or as in a park.

To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park artillery, wagons, automobiles, etc.

In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.

To bring (a vehicle) to a stop and leave it standing; - typically a parked vehicle is off of the public road, the motor is not running, and the driver has left the vehicle.

To place (an object) in a temporary location; as, to park oneself on the couch; to park one's money in a mutual fund.

To promenade or drive in a park; also, of horses, to display style or gait on a park drive.

To come to a stop [in a vehicle] off of the public road and leave the vehicle standing; - typically the motor of a parked vehicle is not left running; as, he parked in a no-parking zone.

A large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property;

A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;

A facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games);

Scottish explorer in Africa (1771-1806)

A lot where cars are parked

A gear position that acts as a parking brake;

Place temporarily;

Maneuver a vehicle into a parking space;