Cork

Definition: Cork

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.

3. A port city in southern Ireland.

4. The plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle).

5. A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.

Verb

1. Close a bottle with a cork.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cork" was first used: 1303. (references)

Metallurgy

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CORK

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cork

Closure

Verb: close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct;

Levity

Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.

Refuge

Means of escape; (escape) lifeboat, lifejacket, life buoy, swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone; emergency landing.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Crosswords: Cork

What I want is for you to cork your goddamn government mouth, mister (Young Guns II; writing credit: John Fusco)

Mary de Cork (1967)

Sergeant Cork (1963)

Poppin' the Cork (1933)

Cork and Vicinity (1912)

Burnt Cork (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Crown Cork & Seal Co Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Cork and Wood Manufactures excluding Furniture Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cork and Wood Manufactures Excluding Furniture in Greece (reference)

• The World Market for Cork and Wood: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cork and Wood Manufactures Excluding Furniture in Algeria (reference)

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Books

• Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture (Music in American Life) (reference)

• Cork Toys You Can Make (reference)

• Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays: The Children's Anti-Stress Book (reference)

• Flashbacks: A Half Century of Cork Hurling (Flashbacks) (reference)

• Guide to Tracing your Cork Ancestors (reference)

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Music

• Made in Cork (reference)

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High Tech

• Cisco Systems Cable Ac Power Cork For Uk Mc3810 7200 (reference)

• IMC Networks Mediaconverter Mcpim Tp/BNC 10 BT To 10B2 Req Chassis with O Cork (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Shepherd 9961 Cork Surface Gard Pads (reference)

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Cork. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

[Microscopy: "Cells" of cork as seen through a microscope]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Cellular structure of cork plant and cells of a honeycomb, with cork plant branch below. Credit: Library of Congress.

Armstrong Cork Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania. New York City showroom I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Scarves by Vera, business at 417 5th Ave. Cork wall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Machines of Crown Cork & Seal Co. Machine I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man, probably Italian political figure, holding police truncheon as cork in bottle labeled "12 Maggio" with emblem of a socialist party inside. Credit: Library of Congress.

In the great Cork Labour tradition : Toddy O'Sullivan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide

In the box she found a piece of cork.

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Business

However, the demand for alternative floor coverings such as wood, cork and laminates increases gradually, which clearly had negative effects on textile floor coverings. (references)

This analysis examines the Canadian market for flooring products, which is made up of wood and cork flooring; ceramics; marble, granite, slate, terrazzo tiles and other natural stone tiles; carpeting; and plastic and linoleum floor coverings. (references)

Major manufacturers of packaging containers are Cebal, Sealed Air, Toray and Valois, for plastics packaging; Altis, Beynel and Seguin Moreau, for wood packaging; Carnaud Metalbox, Continental Can, Crown Cork Company, Impress Metal Packaging and PLM, for metal containers; St Gobain Emballage and Champagne Emballage, for glass containers. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Agriculture: Forestry, fisheries, cork, wine. (references)

Moldova

One such case in 2000 involved the U.S. company Crown Cork and Seal. (references)

Ireland

Dublin, Cork, and Limerick are the three largest ports, with Dublin the principal port. (references)

Trade

Ireland

Bonded warehouses are operated in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Galway. (references)

Travel

Ireland

Ireland has four international airports (Dublin, Shannon, Cork, and Knock). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cork": agglomerated cork ♦ asbestos cork award ♦ bob up like a cork ♦ chinese cork oak ♦ cork elm ♦ Cork fossil ♦ cork jacket ♦ Cork jackets ♦ cork oak ♦ cork tree ♦ cork up ♦ cultivated cork ♦ expanded cork ♦ Fossil cork ♦ granulated cork ♦ mountain cork ♦ plug cork ♦ reproduction cork ♦ rock cork ♦ trimmed cork ♦ velvet cork ♦ virgin cork. Additional references.

Beginning with "cork": cork-based, cork-blackened, cork-board, cork-born, cork-bundles, cork-effect, cork-faced, cork-like, cork-lined, cork-screw, cork-screwing, cork-soled, cork-stopper, cork-stoppered, cork-stoppers, cork-strewn, cork-tiled, cork-twist.

Ending with "cork": Swansea-cork.

Afrikaans

kurk. (various references)

Albanian

Tapos (bung, stop, stop up, stopple), Tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap, wad), Përmbaj (carry, check, choke, comprise, constrain, contain, control, detain, deter, embrace, feature, gulp, hold, hold back, hold in, include, incorporate, pocket, repress, restock, restrain, stay), Mbyll Me Tapë, Mbiujëse (bobber), Frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem, stop), Dru Tape (cork tree, corkwood). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فليني مصنوع من فلين, ‏فلينة الصنارة, ‏فلين, ‏فلن, ‏سود بفلين محروق, ‏سدادة القنينة, ‏البهش شجر الفلين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Пресичам (Curdle), Подтискам, Корков (Corky), Корк, Натърквам С Горен Корк, Запушвам С Тапа, Запушалка (Bibb), Тапа, Лико. (various references)

Catalan

suro. (various references)

Chinese 

軟木塞 , 黄柏. (various references)

Czech

Zazátkovat (bung, plug), Zátka (bung, plug, stopper, tap), Korek. (various references)

Danish

prop (insert, patch, plug, sleeve, stopper, stopple). (various references)

Dutch

kurk. (various references)

Esperanto

korko. (various references)

Faeroese

tundur, tøppur (electric plug, faucet, plug, stopper, tap). (various references)

Farsi 

چوب پنبه گذاشتن(در), چوب پنبه ای , چوب پنبه (Stopper), بستن (Assess, Attach, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle), بافت چوب پنبه درخت بلوط. (various references)

Finnish

korkki (bottle top, stopper). (various references)

French

liège, bouchon. (various references)

Frisian

koark. (various references)

German

Kork, Pfropfen (block, blockage, bung, clog, clot, cram, electric plug, graft, pack, plug, plug up, stop up, stop(per), stopper, wad), Stopfen (be filling, block, bolt down one's food, bundle, clog, constipate, cram, darn, darning, fill, jam, jam in, mend, mute, pack, plug, plug up, ram, stop, stop up, stopper, stuff, stuff oneself, to darn, wad), Stöpsel (electric plug, Jack, little fellow, peg, pegs, plug, stopper), Korken (corks, stopper). (various references)

Greek 

φελλός (float). (various references)

Hebrew 

־סתם, ּפקוק, ּגוף, עם, װקק. (various references)

Hungarian

parafakéreg, parafa-, dugó (bung, peg, plug, spill, stopper, stopple, stud, tap). (various references)

Indonesian

sumbat (gag, pledget, stopper, tampion, wadding), gabus. (various references)

Irish

Corcaigh. (various references)

Italian

sughero, turacciolo (stopper), tappo (bung, cap, plug, stopper, top), tappare (plug, stop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

栓 (stopcock, stopper), コリオリの力 (col, collision, collusion, Coriolis' force, pinball machine game). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), コルク . (various references)

Korean 

코르크. (various references)

Manx

slaa corc lostit er, eairkey, cur mollagyn er ingagh, cur eairkey ayn, cur corcyn er ingagh, corcaghey, corc. (various references)

Norwegian

korke, kork. (various references)

Papiamen

kòrki. (various references)

Pig Latin

orkcay.(various references)

Portuguese

cortiça (coat), rolha (plug, stop, stopper, stopple). (various references)

Romanian

Tãinui (conceal, disguise, hide, hood, hush, keep back, lock, mask, reset, secrete, veil), Plutã (float, quill, raft), Dop De Plutã, Dop (float, peg, stop, stopper, wad), Astupãtoare (choke, cover, stopper), Astupa Cu Un Dop (wad), Ascunde (cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, ensconce, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap). (various references)

Russian 

Пробковый Слой, Пробковый (Corky), Пробка, Поплавок (Bob), Кора Пробкового Дуба, Кора (Cora), Закупоривать Пробкой, Закупоривать, Закрывать Пробкой, Луб, пробка пробковый. (various references)

Scottish

corc (a cork, a knife, knife, oats, whittle), àrcan (a cork, stopple). (various references)

Sepedi

poropo. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapušač (bung, corker, plug, stopper, stopple, tap), začepiti (block, clog, gag, obturate, occlude, plug, tamp), pluta, od plute, čep (bung, plug, spigot, spile, stopple, tampion, tampon, wad). (various references)

Spanish

corcho (Bob, bobber, float). (various references)

Sranan

korku. (various references)

Swahili

kizibo. (various references)

Swedish

Kork (obturator, stopper), Korka Igen (cork up). (various references)

Tagalog

tápón. (various references)

Thai

เปลือกนอกของต้นโอ๊ค, บังคับความรู้สึก, ลูกลอย, ปิดด้วยจุกไม้ก๊อก, จุกไม้ก๊อก. (various references)

Turkish

Tıpalamak (bung, plug, plug up, put on a stopper), Tıpa (bung, plug, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad), Tıkaç (bung, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), Mantarla Tıkamak, Mantar Meşesi Kabuğu, Mantar (athlete's foot, blight, brand, Corky, fungal, fungoid, fungous, fungus, mushroom, myco-), Kara Mantarla Siyahlaştırmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

dyky (stopper). (various references)

Ukrainian

Пробка (Bibb), Поплавець (Bob), Корковий (Corky), Корок, Кора Коркового Дерева, Затикати Корком. (various references)

Vietnamese 

li e, bần nút bần. (various references)

Welsh

corcyn. (various references)

cortex, quercus. (various references)

alcorque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cork": corkage, corkages, corkboard, corkboards, corked, corker, corkers, corkier, corkiest, corkiness, corkinesses, corking, corklike, corks, corkscrew, corkscrewed, corkscrewing, corkscrews, corkwood, corkwoods, corky. (additional references)

Words ending with "cork": recork, uncork. (additional references)

Words containing "cork": recorked, recorking, recorks, uncorked, uncorking, uncorks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cork" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aork, Cerc, ceyrek, cirk, coak, Cok, coori, Corca, corce, corch, cori, corke, corkt, corl, corq, corr, Corro, cosk, crc, crok, crol, cror, curc, cyrk, gork, iork, kerk, Korc, kork, Kurk, ocr, Ork, rork, sork, ucok, Zork. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rock.

-1 letter: cor, kor, orc, roc.

-2 letters: or.

+1 letter: brock, corks, corky, croak, crock, crook, frock, ocker, rocks, rocky, trock.

+2 letters: brocks, choker, cocker, conker, cooker, corked, corker, croaks, croaky, crocks, crojik, crooks, docker, frocks, hocker, locker, mocker, ockers, reckon, recock, recook, recork, redock, relock, rocked, rocker, rocket, trocks, uncork.

+3 letters: arkosic, armlock, bedrock, blocker, brocket, burdock, caprock, chokers, chokier, clocker, cockers, cockier, comaker, conkers, cookers, cookery, corkage, corkers, corkier, corking, croaked, croaker, crocked, crocket, crojiks, crooked, cutwork, defrock, dockers, dorneck, dornick, dornock, earlock, frocked, gorcock, hickory, hockers, kerchoo, knocker, lavrock, lockers, lockram, mockers, mockery, mudrock, oarlock, outrock, pockier, precook, prerock, reckons, recocks, recooks, recorks, redocks, relocks, restock, rimrock, rockaby, rockers, rockery, rockets, rockier, rocking, rockoon, roebuck, rollick, rowlock, ruddock, shocker, stocker, trocked, uncorks, unfrock, warlock.