cork

English Online Dictionary. What means cork‎? What does cork mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

cork (countable and uncountable, plural corks)

1. (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

   Synonym: phellem

   1. The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.

Translations

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.

2. (transitive) 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.
   1. (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
   • 2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,

     Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
6. (fishing) 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.
7. (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

Noun

cork (plural corks)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

Derived terms

• double cork (two such maneuvers in a single jump)
• triple cork (three such maneuvers in a single jump)
• quad cork (four such maneuvers in a single jump)

Translations

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.

Adjective

cork (not comparable)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → French: cork

References

Anagrams

• Kroc, Rock, rock

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cork (“corkscrew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁk/

Noun

cork m (plural corks)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) cork (An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.)