English Explanatory Dictionary

cork

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
  2. The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  3. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
  4. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  5. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
verb
  1. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  2. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
  3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  4. To fill with cork.
  5. To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
  6. To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
  7. 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.
  8. To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
noun
  1. An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
verb
  1. To perform such a maneuver.
adj
  1. Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
name
  1. The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
  2. A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).

Pronunciation

/kɔɹk/ /kɔːk/ en-us-cork.ogg EN-AU ck1 cork.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cork.wav

Word forms

cork corks corking corked

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.

Synonyms

phellem

Derived words

→ Thai: ก๊อก double cork triple cork quad cork Amur cork tree blow one's cork corkable corkage corkball cork-board corkboard corkborer cork borer cork cambium corked cork elm corker cork hat corkie corkier corkiest corkiness corking corking pin corkish cork it corkite cork jacket corkless corklike cork line corkline cork moth cork oak cork off cork out corkscrew corkscrewed corkscrew flower corkscrew hazel corkscrewing corkscrewlike corkscrew stake corkscrewy cork taint cork tip cork tipped cork up corkwing cork wood corkwood corky crown cork mountain cork pop one's cork put a cork in it put the cork back in the bottle recork rock cork uncork

Translations

French: liège French: phellème French: suber Latin: textus integumentarius secundus Latin: sūber Macedonian: плута Romanian: suber Romanian: plută Arabic: فِلِّين Assamese: ঠিলা Assamese: সোপা Assamese: কাগ Azerbaijani: mantar Basque: artelazki Belarusian: ко́рак Bulgarian: корк Bulgarian: плу́та Catalan: suro Chinese Mandarin: 軟木 /软木 Czech: korek Danish: kork Dutch: kurk Dutch: kurkschors Estonian: kork Faroese: tundur Finnish: korkki West-Frisian: koark Friulian: sûr Galician: cortiza German: Kork Greek: φελλός Ancient Greek: φελλός Hebrew: שַׁעַם Hungarian: parafa Icelandic: korkur Italian: sughero Japanese: コルク Kapampangan: talaran Kazakh: тоз Korean: 코르크 Kyrgyz: пробка Latvian: korķis Lithuanian: kamštis Malay: gabus Norwegian Bokmål: kork Norwegian Nynorsk: kork Occitan: suve Occitan: siure Iranian Persian: چوبپَنْبِه Finnish: korkittaa
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