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Corked vs Cooked - What's the difference?

corked | cooked |

As verbs the difference between corked and cooked

is that corked is (cork) while cooked is (cook).

As adjectives the difference between corked and cooked

is that corked is of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork while cooked is of food, that has been prepared by cooking.

corked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cork)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:
  • Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .
  • Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
  • Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?

    Anagrams

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    cooked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
  • Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
  • (idiomatic) (of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsified
  • Antonyms

    * raw * uncooked

    Derived terms

    * cooked mode

    See also

    * cook the books

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cook)