Spectacular vs Corker - What's the difference?
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Amazing or worthy of special notice
(dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment
* G. Hickes
* {{quote-news, 1910, August 21, Andre Tridon, Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade, The New York Times
, passage=Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.}}
Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.
A spectacular display.
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
One who puts corks into bottles.
*1857 , , The Confidence-Man ,
*:Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.
(informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
*1889 , ,
*:Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker .
Spectacular is a related term of corker.
As nouns the difference between spectacular and corker
is that spectacular is a spectacular display while corker is one who puts corks into bottles.As an adjective spectacular
is amazing or worthy of special notice.spectacular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The parachutists were spectacular .
- the merely spectacular
- Spectacular sports.
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Derived terms
* spectacularly * unspectacularExternal links
* *Noun
(en noun)- Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.
corker
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Noun
(en noun)chapter 30,
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