Corked vs Worked - What's the difference?
corked | worked |
(cork)
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:
Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
(work)
Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
* 1811 , William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland , page 73:
Wrought.
# Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
#* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:
# Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
#* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:
Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
* 1835 , R.H. Nicholls and Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant , page 108:
As verbs the difference between corked and worked
is that corked is (cork) while worked is (work).As adjectives the difference between corked and worked
is that corked is of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork while worked is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.corked
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .
- Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
Anagrams
* *worked
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(head)Adjective
(-)- A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.
- ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
- ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
- Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.