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Definition: Corkscrew |
CorkscrewNoun1. A bottle opener that pulls corks. Verb1. Move in a spiral or zigzag course. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corkscrew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a corkscrew, indicates an unsatisfied mind, and the dreamer should heed this as a warning to curb his desires, for it is likely they are on dangerous grounds. To dream of breaking a corkscrew while using it, indicates to the dreamer perilous surroundings, and he should use force of will to abandon unhealthful inclinations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | Oblique repp; also type of bur of corkscrew shape. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A device resembling a corkscrew, used as a fishing tool b. A borehole following a spiraled course c. A cylindrical surface, such as the outer surface of a piece of spirallygrooved core. Also called fluted core. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A corkscrew is a tool for drawing stopping corks from bottles. Generally, it is comprised of a pointed metallic spiral attached to a handle. The user grips the handle, and screws the metal point spirally through the cork. Thus, the cork and corkscrew shall be so entwined that moving one shall move the other. Corkscrews are necessary because corks themselves with their small sizes and smooth material surface are often two difficult to grip and (elegantly) remove. The handle of the corkscrew, often a horizontal bar of wood attached to the screw, allows for a fine, commanding grip making removal of the stopper relatively easy. Effectively, it increases the amount of force that can be applied outwards upon the cork.
Its design was derived from the gun worm which was a device used by musketmen to remove unspent charges from a musket's barrel in a similar fashion.
Corkscrew enables you to run SSH connections over most HTTPS proxy servers. Due to SSH features such as port forwarding, this can allow many types of services to be run safely over the SSH via HTTPS connections.
Home page: http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/
Supported proxy servers:
One way to work around this is to modify the TCP/IP stack keepalive values on the client machine and the machine running the ssh server. Most default keepalives do not kick in until a large amount of time has gone by, however, so this approach would mean modifying the keepalive values on all (outside) machines you want to connect to. Not terribly great.
A good workaround for this problem is to install the heartbeat patch for OpenSSH.
One very handy use of this, is to setup squid on a remote machine (outside restrictive firewall), and port forward from your client machine, across said firewall, to the box with squid. Then, you can set your local browser to use the local port as it's proxy server, and you can have all of your web traffic be unreadable to the firewall.
Assume that squid is configured on
To start ssh port forward:
Corkscrews in Software
One problem with this approach is that proxy servers generally have an idle timeout setup for HTTP/HTTPS connections. Values of 10 minutes or so can possibly be tolerated, but some have this value very low (say 30 seconds). This of course causes your SSH sessions to die after the set timeout if they are left idle.Practical use
remotehost to listen on 127.0.0.1:8080.ssh -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 remotehost.com
Then, just have your browser use 127.0.0.1:8080 as it's proxy server, and you are set. Refer to the squid page for information on anonymizing you can have squid automatically do for your HTTP traffic.Credit
The article contains material from InfoAnarchy
see also: httptunnel
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Corkscrew."
Synonyms: CorkscrewSynonyms: bottle screw (n), spiral (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circuition | Turning; Verb: wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew. |
Convolution | Coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone. |
Extraction | Extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers. |
Perforator | Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corkscrew |
| English words defined with "corkscrew": Bottlescrew. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "corkscrew": Helicity ♦ Screw Pinch, symbolic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Corkscrew" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (corkscrew). |
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Screenplays | He was so twisted he could eat soup with a corkscrew. (The Grifters; writing credit: Stephen Frears, written by Donald E. Westlake.) Well, I don't dangle a corkscrew from my ear. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Hey, I got a great corkscrew. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Little Robinson Corkscrew (1924) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The corkscrew / A. Castaigne. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Corkscrew road up to Central City, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grand Canon of Arizona from above the Corkscrew. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic. G.J. T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Corkscrew" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corkscrew" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 78 | 37,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "corkscrew": corkscrew curls ♦ corkscrew flower ♦ corkscrew staircase ♦ Corkscrew stairs ♦ corkscrew yarn. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "corkscrew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | turjelë tapash, nxjerrëse tapash. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спирален (convolute, convoluted, gyrate, helical, spiral, spiry), тирбушон, лъкатуша (crank, ramble, serpentine, wander, wind), изтръгвам с мъка, движа се по спирала. (various references) | |
Chinese | "塞螺旋. (various references) | |
Czech | vývrtka (spin). (various references) | |
Danish | proptrækker (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Dutch | kurketrekker (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Esperanto | korktirilo (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Farsi | دربطری بازکن . (various references) | |
Finnish | korkkiruuvi. (various references) | |
French | tire-bouchon (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Frisian | koarketrekker. (various references) | |
German | Korkenzieher (cork screw). (various references) | |
Greek | τιρμπουσόν (cork screw). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחלץ (extractor, puller), חולץ (extractor, puller). (various references) | |
Hungarian | dugóhúzó (cork-screw, spin). (various references) | |
Italian | cavatappi. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "抜き , 口抜き , コルク抜き (bodice of a woman's dress, colchicine, Colt, cornet, correspondent, corsage, corset, cortisone, kolkhoz, Kolmogorov, small bouquet worn by a woman), ゲリラ兵 (calking, caulking, caution, coach, coach's box, coaster, coat, coating, coda, coding, coding system, cogeneration, cogeneration system, Coke, Coke highball, coordinate, coordination, coordinator, corduroy, corselet, cortisone, course, course of study, course record, courseware, gel, gene, Gentzen, germane, germanium, guerrilla, lane marks, money, money pinch, ski slope, tennis court). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くちぬき, せ"ぬき, コークスクリュー , コルクぬき. (various references) | |
Manx | tharrar voteilagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | korketrekker. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kos di saka kòrki. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkscrewcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saca-rolhas (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Romanian | tirbuşon, rac (cancer, crab), în spiralã (spiral). (various references) | |
Russian | спиральный (helical, spiral), штопор (bottle-screw, spin, tail spin, tailspin, tail-spin), двигаться по спирали (gyrate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavojit (cranked, spiral, tortuous, twisting, winding), vadičep, spiralan (convolute, helical, involute, spiral, winding), probiti se kroz gomilu. (various references) | |
Spanish | sacacorchos (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Sranan | korkutreki. (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-kulúfu. (various references) | |
Swedish | korkskruv (cork-screw). (various references) | |
Thai | เคลื่อนที่หมุนรอบ, สว่านเปิ"จุกขว", ม้วนเป็นเกลียว. (various references) | |
Turkish | tirbuşon, sarmal olarak kıvrılmak, sarmal olarak kıvırmak, burgu (auger, gimlet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спіральний (anfractuous, helical, spiral, volute), рухатися по спіралі (gyrate), штопор (nose-spin, puller, spin), крута спіраль, просуватися (advance, ascend, better oneself, carry forward, get on, go forward, set on), протискуватися (elbow, scrape, squash), пробочник. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corkscrew": corkscrewed, corkscrewing, corkscrews. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "corkscrew" (pronounced kô"rkskruw') |
| 3 | -k r uw' | aircrew. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-k-o-r-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: cockers, corkers, crowers, recocks, recorks, reworks, rockers, workers. | |
-3 letters: cocker, corers, corker, cowers, crocks, crores, crower, escrow, ockers, recock, recork, rework, rocker, rowers, scorer, soccer, worker, worser, wrecks. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cokes, corer, cores, corks, corse, cosec, cower, crews, crock, crocs, crore, crows, ocker, recks, resow, rocks, rower, score, screw, secco, serow, sorer, sower. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-k-o-r-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: corkscrews. | |
+2 letters: corkscrewed. | |
+3 letters: corkscrewing. | |
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