Dictionary Definition
cork
Noun
1 outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers
for bottles etc.
2 (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective
layer of dead cells [syn: phellem]
3 a port city in southern Ireland
4 the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a
wine bottle)
Verb
2 stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed
his bat with cork to make it lighter"
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)k
Adjective
- Made from, or consisting of, cork.
- Look at that cork statue.
Noun
Translations
bark of the cork oak
bottle stopper
Verb
- To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- In the context of "slang": To be quiet.
- He was so loud I told him to cork it.
- In the context of "baseball": To fill the center of a bat with cork.
- He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
Extensive Definition
Cork may refer to:
- Cork, Ireland, including:
- Cork (material), used for bottle stoppers and noteboards
- Cork (surname)
- Canadian_Olympic-training_Regatta,_Kingston, a large annual freshwater sailing regatta
- Cork encoding
- Another name for a stopper (plug)
- Charley horse - commonly referred to as a 'corked' hamstring etc.
See also
- Corke
- County Cork
- Cork Harbour
- Cork Airport
- Metropolitan Cork
- Cork Oak
- Chinese Cork Oak
- Cork tree (disambiguation page)
- Cork cambium
- Cork taint
- Cork City F.C.
- Cork GAA
- Corky
- lookfrom Cork
cork in Lithuanian: Cork
cork in Dutch: Cork
cork in Simple English: Cork
cork in Slovak: Cork
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Carling float, air, asphyxiate, balsa, balsa raft, bar, bark, bedarken, besmirch, bind, black, blacken, blackwash, block, block up, blockade, blot, blotch, bob, bonnet, boom, bottle up, box up, bubble, bung, buoy, cage, cap, caulk, ceil, censor, chaff, charcoal, check, check valve, chink, chip, choke, choke off, choke up, clamp
down on, clog, clog up,
cloister, cobweb, cock, coif, confine, congest, constipate, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up,
cortex, cover, crack down on, crib, crown, crush, dam, dam up, damp down, darken, denigrate, detain, dinge, dome, down, drown, dust, ebonize, encage, enclose, epicarp, ether, extinguish, fairy, faucet, feather, fence in, fill, fill up, float, flue, fluff, foam, foul, froth, fuzz, gag, gossamer, hat, hem in, hold, hold down, hold in, hold in
custody, hold in restraint, hood, immure, impound, inhibit, ink, jam, jump on, keep, keep down, keep in, keep in
custody, keep in detention, keep under, kill, lid, life buoy, life preserver, life
raft, lock in, maintain, melanize, mew, mew up, mote, murk, muzzle, nigrify, obstipate, obstruct, oversmoke, pack, peel, peeling, peg, pen, pen up, phellum, pin, plug, plug up, pontoon, pound, pour water on, preserve, put down, quash, quell, quench, raft, rail in, repress, restrain, restrict, retain, rind, roof, roof in, save, save up, sea cock, seal up,
shackle, shade, shadow, shut down on, shut in,
shut up, silence, sit
down on, sit on, skin,
smash, smirch, smoke, smother, smudge, smut, smutch, soot, spigot, spike, spile, spill, sponge, spume, squash, squelch, stanch, stay, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopper, stopple, strangle, straw, stuff, stuff up, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, surfboard, tap, thistledown, throttle, tip, top, valve, wall in