Cork

[kɔːk] or [kɔrk]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) a port city in southern Ireland.

(noun.) outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc..

(verb.) stuff with cork; 'The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter'.

(verb.) close a bottle with a cork.

爱德华整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

(n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.

(n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.

(v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.

(v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

安尼塔整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Bark of the Quercus suber, or cork-tree.[2]. Stopple or stopper (made of cork).

錄入:玛格利特

解釋/意思:

n. the outer bark of the cork-tree an oak found in the south of Europe &c.: a stopper made of cork: any stopper.—adj. made of cork.—v.t. to stop with a cork: to stop up.—ns. Cork′age corking or uncorking of bottles: a charge made by hotel-keepers for uncorking of bottles when the liquor has not been supplied from the house; Cork′-cut′ter one employed in cutting corks for bottles &c.: an instrument used for this.—adj. Corked stopped by a cork: tainted by the cork as wine: blackened by burnt cork.—ns. Cork′er a finisher: (slang) something conclusive; Cork′ing-pin a large pin probably from fastening the hair to a pad of cork; Cork′-jack′et a jacket made of or lined with cork to aid in swimming; Cork′-leg an artificial leg partly of cork; Cork′-screw a screw for drawing corks from bottles.—adj. like a cork-screw in shape.—v.i. to move in a spiral manner.—v.t. to pull out with difficulty as a cork: to obtain information from by force or cunning.—n. Cork′-tree a species of oak from which cork is obtained.—adj. Cork′y of or resembling cork: (Shak.) withered.

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