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Verb
/kôrk/,
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corks, plural;
  1. Close or seal (a bottle) with a cork

  2. (of wine) Spoiled by tannin from the cork

  3. Draw with burnt cork

  4. Illicitly hollow out (a baseball bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter

Noun
  1. The buoyant, light brown substance obtained from the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak
    • - cork tiles
  2. A bottle stopper, esp. one made of cork

  3. A piece of cork used as a float for a fishing line or net

  4. A protective layer of dead cells immediately below the bark of woody plants

  1. outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
  2. close a bottle with a cork
  3. phellem: (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
  4. stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
  5. a port city in southern Ireland
  6. the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
  7. Cork is a rock duo/supergroup consisting of Eric Schenkman (formerly of the Spin Doctors) and Corky Laing (formerly of Mountain). ...
  8. Cork (from corcach, meaning "swamp") is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. ...
  9. Cork is an impermeable, buoyant material, a prime-subset of generic cork tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the Cork Oak), which is endemic to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. ...
  10. A stopper is a truncated cylindrical or conical piece of rubber, cork, glass, or plastic used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices.
  11. Cork is a surname.
  12. Cork cambium is a tissue found in many vascular plants as part of the periderm. The cork cambium is a lateral meristem and is responsible for secondary growth that replaces the epidermis in roots and stems. ...
  13. (CORKING) adj. Excellent; splendid. Like spiffing. Often used sarcastically.
  14. (Corking) Taking a DE blade and pulling the edges through a cork (for instance from a wine bottle). Some people find it help take the roughness out of sharper blades like those made by Feather.
  15. Corking is a tactic used to prevent traffic from entering the path of the cyclists.
  16. (Corks) Those things that stop the wine falling out of the bottles. Available in plastic and original cork flavour. ...
  17. The outer layer of the bark in woody plants; composed of dead cells.
  18. Corks are produced from the bark of cork trees, which are grown mainly in Spain and Portugal. Corks are airtight and have for years been the best way to seal wine bottles.
  19. said of a wine that smells more of cork than it does of wine. Such an odor will usually not dissipate, and, if noticed to excess in a wine, provides sufficient reason for returning it to the retailer or restaurateur.
  20. To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon enter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness of the most select kind. To dream of medicine corks, denotes sickness and wasted energies. ...
  21. Wine bottle closure made from the bark of cork oaks (Quercus Suber). Quality corks have very fine grain, only minor or no faults, good compressibility, and have been cured to contain between 5 and 8% moisture.
  22. the external protective tissue of a stem or root. It is made up of polygonal-shaped cells that are non-living at maturity. The cell walls of cork tissue contain a fatty material (suberin) that makes them impermeable to water and gasses. Cork cells form the outermost layer of bark.
  23. Cork isn’t just for wine bottles anymore. Probably the most popular use of cork now is flooring because it provides natural thermal insulation, thus helping to lower energy consumption, and it also has the natural ability to absorb sound and shock. ...
  24. A stopper consisting of a cylindrical piece of bark cut from the tree Quercus suber. The elasticity and springiness of this wood enables it to hold the wine inside the bottle without leaking.
  25. To fall off a freefly position, decelerating rapidly and popping up like a cork in relation to other