Cork vs Corkless - What's the difference?
cork | corkless |
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(uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
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A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
The cork oak, Quercus suber .
(botany) The tissue that grows from the cork cambium.
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]
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.
(Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
* 2006 , Joseph N. Santamaria, The Education of Dr Joe ,
* 2007 , Shaun A. Saunders, Navigating in the New World ,
* 2008 , Christopher J. Holcroft, Canyon ,
* 2010 , Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe , large print 16pt,
* 2010 , , ''Ben Cousins: My Life Story ,
(snowboarding) a snowboarding aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
(snowboarding) having the property of a head over heels rotation
Lacking a cork.
* 1858 , Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck
As adjectives the difference between cork and corkless
is that cork is having the property of a head over heels rotation while corkless is lacking a cork.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 a verb cork
is to seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.As a proper noun Cork
is principal city of County Cork.cork
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) http://photo.pds.org:5004/view/Entry/41541Noun
- Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- ''He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
- ''The vicious tackle corked his leg.
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- 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.
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- As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
- ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
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- “I?m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I?ll be fine.”
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- Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
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- 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 * uncorkEtymology 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)Derived terms
* double cork (two such maneuvers in a single jump) * triple cork (three such maneuvers in a single jump)Adjective
(-)Anagrams
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corkless
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Adjective
(-)- It did not see daylight again until it was unpacked, together with its comrades, in the cellar of a wine merchant; and then for the first time it was rinsed out — that was an odd sensation. It then lay empty and corkless , and felt strangely dull, as if it lacked something, though it didn't know what.