cork
See also: Cork
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) cork, probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic (deprecated template usage) كورك (kurk), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) quercus
Pronunciation
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Noun
- Template:uncountable The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
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- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight-face, when the cork is made of plastic.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak.
Translations
bark of the cork oak
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bottle stopper
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angling float
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Verb
Template:rft cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)
- Template:transitive To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- Template:transitive To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- Template:slang To be quiet.
- He was so loud I told him to cork it.
- To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
- He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
- Template:transitive To injure through a blow
- The vicious tackle corked his leg.
to seal with a stopper, especially with cork
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to blacken as with a burnt cork
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to leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it
slang: to be quiet
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to fill with cork
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to injure through a blow
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