cork
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
skateboarding
skiing
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sports
Etymology: From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
Inflected forms:
form: corks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: corking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
Because cork is porous, it expands and contracts with changes in humidity.
gloss: A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
gloss: An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cork oak, Quercus suber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.
gloss: To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
pos: verb
gloss: To fill with cork.
pos: verb
gloss: To fill with cork.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
Apparently I used to have some good power even though I was little, but the team we were playing against thought I had corked the bat. I kid you not! They paid $200 to have the bat popped off to prove they were right.
gloss: To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: The vicious tackle corked his leg.
Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.
As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
“I′m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.”
2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,
Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
gloss: To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
pos: verb
examples: Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.
But its soon apparent that there are more boats than fish—at least for the moment. We all drift quietly, keeping an eye out for other boats and other nets. Corking another guy's net is a screaming—bastard offense.
You're pissed if someone sets too close to you and especially if he sets his net right along yours, "corking" you and intercepting the fish that seem headed to your own net. I was close to this guy's outside net, but definitely not corking him.
gloss: To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […]
gloss: Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: → Thai: ก๊อก
Translations:
lang: French
word: liège
lang: French
word: phellème
lang: French
word: suber
lang: Latin
word: textus integumentarius secundus
lang: Macedonian
word: плута
roman: pluta
lang: Romanian
word: suber
lang: Arabic
word: فِلِّين
roman: fillīn
lang: Assamese
word: ঠিলা
roman: thila
lang: Assamese
word: সোপা
roman: xüpa
lang: Assamese
word: কাগ
roman: kag
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mantar
lang: Basque
word: artelazki
lang: Belarusian
word: ко́рак
roman: kórak
lang: Bulgarian
word: корк
roman: kork
lang: Bulgarian
word: плу́та
roman: plúta
lang: Catalan
word: suro
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 軟木 /软木
roman: ruǎnmù
lang: Czech
word: korek
lang: Danish
word: kork
lang: Dutch
word: kurk
lang: Dutch
word: kurkschors
lang: Estonian
word: kork
lang: Faroese
word: tundur
lang: Finnish
word: korkki
lang: French
word: liège
lang: West-Frisian
word: koark
lang: Friulian
word: sûr
lang: Galician
word: cortiza
lang: German
word: Kork
lang: Greek
word: φελλός
roman: fellós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φελλός
roman: phellós
lang: Hebrew
word: שַׁעַם
roman: shá'am
lang: Hungarian
word: parafa
lang: Icelandic
word: korkur
lang: Italian
word: sughero
lang: Japanese
word: コルク
roman: koruku
lang: Kapampangan
word: talaran
lang: Kazakh
word: тоз
roman: toz
lang: Korean
word: 코르크
roman: koreukeu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: пробка
roman: probka
lang: Latin
word: sūber
lang: Latvian
word: korķis
lang: Lithuanian
word: kamštis
lang: Macedonian
word: плута
roman: pluta
lang: Malay
word: gabus
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kork
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kork
lang: Occitan
word: suve
lang: Occitan
word: siure
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چوبپَنْبِه
roman: čub-panbe
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Korkj
lang: Polish
word: korek
lang: Portuguese
word: cortiça
lang: Romanian
word: plută
lang: Russian
word: про́бка
roman: próbka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: плу̏та
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: плу̏то
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plȕta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plȕto
lang: Sicilian
word: sùvuru
lang: Sicilian
word: sùvaru
lang: Slovak
word: korok
lang: Slovene
word: pluta
lang: Slovene
word: plutovina
lang: Spanish
word: corcho
lang: Swedish
word: kork
lang: Turkish
word: mantar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مانطار
roman: mantar
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́рок
roman: kórok
lang: Uzbek
word: poʻkak
lang: Uzbek
word: probka
lang: Venetan
word: suro
lang: Venetan
word: sóaro
lang: Venetan
word: sóvaro
lang: Venetan
word: sur
lang: Volapük
word: koeg
lang: Finnish
word: korkittaa