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Cork vs Bork - What's the difference?

cork | bork |

As verbs the difference between cork and bork

is that cork is to seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper while bork is to defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.

As a noun cork

is the bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.

As an adjective cork

is having the property of a head over heels rotation.

As a proper noun Cork

is principal city of County Cork.

cork

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) http://photo.pds.org:5004/view/Entry/41541
  • eid8154767 or from Aramaic

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
  • *
  • A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
    • Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
  • An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
  • The cork oak, Quercus suber .
  • (botany) The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • 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.
  • To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
  • To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
  • To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
    • ''He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
  • (Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
    • ''The vicious tackle corked his leg.
  • * 2006 , Joseph N. Santamaria, The Education of Dr Joe , page 60,
    • Injuries, which seemed to be of an inconsequential nature, were often sustained, such as a sprained ankle, a dislocated phalanx, a twisted foot, a corked leg and so on.
  • * 2007 , Shaun A. Saunders, Navigating in the New World , page 202,
    • As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
    ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
  • * 2008 , Christopher J. Holcroft, Canyon , page 93,
    • “I?m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I?ll be fine.”
  • * 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.
  • * 2010 , , ''Ben Cousins: My Life Story , page 108,
    • I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.

    Derived terms

    * corkboard * corker * corking * cork oak * cork off * corkscrew * corkwood * corky * uncork

    Etymology 2

    From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew. BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (snowboarding) a snowboarding 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)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (snowboarding) to perform such a maneuver

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (snowboarding) having the property of a head over heels rotation

    • Anagrams

    *

    References

    bork

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of .{{cite web citation , title=American Topics , accessdate=2008-11-14 , last=Higbee , first=Arthur , coauthors= , date=1993-01-13 , work=International Herald Tribune , publisher=International Herald Tribune, archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20051026100058/http://www.iht.com/articles/1993/01/13/topi_3.php, archivedate=2005-10-26}}

    Verb

  • (US, politics, often, pejorative) To defeat a judicial nomination through a concerted attack on the nominee's character, background and philosophy.
  • * 2002 , Orrin G. Hatch, Capital Hill Hearing Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February 7, 2002, {{cite web citation
    • , title=Statement of The Honorable Orrin Hatch , accessdate=2008-11-14 , last=Hatch , first=Orrin G. , coauthors= , date=2007-02-07 , work=The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit , publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary}}
    After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.
  • * 2004 , Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided , p340
    • Forcing their adversaries to bork nominees may, they may think, lead voters in the middle to think less well of liberals, enhancing the distaste for Washington politics that has helped conservatives gain political power.
  • * 2006 , Jeffrey Lord, Borking Rush'', in ''American Spectator , October 30, 2006
    • Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking'. Having been in the Reagan White House when Robert Bork was '''borked''', I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same ' borking guns were turned on my friend Judge Smith years later.

    Etymology 2

    * Possibly derived from (borken), which is an intentional misspelling of the word (broken) (e.g. The computer is borken ). The word is often used in ironic or humorous contexts. * Possibly derived from usage described under Etymology 1.

    Verb

  • To misconfigure, especially a computer or other complex device.
  • To break or damage.

    • References

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