Cork vs Fork - What's the difference?
cork | fork |
eid8154767 or from Aramaic
(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
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
(obsolete) A gallows.
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
A tuning fork.
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
* When you come to a fork in the road, take it -
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
* Addison
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
(geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
(figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
(computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
(computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
(British) Crotch.
(colloquial) A forklift.
* Are you qualified to drive a fork?
The individual blades of a forklift.
In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
To divide into two or more branches.
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
* Prof. Wilson
(computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
(computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
(computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
(British) To kick someone in the crotch.
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
* Mortimer
In transitive terms the difference between cork and fork
is that cork is to blacken (as) with a burnt cork while fork is to move with a fork (as hay or food).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/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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(en noun)- (Bishop Joseph Butler)
- a thunderbolt with three forks .
Derived terms
* chork * digging fork * fork in the road * pitchfork * spork * tuning forkVerb
(en verb)- A road, a tree, or a stream forks .
- forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
- The corn beginneth to fork .
