Cork vs Woman - What's the difference?
cork | woman |
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
An adult female human.
* Bible, (w) 2:22:
* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)
* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:
(lb) All females collectively; womankind.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:
* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:
A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).
* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:
A female attendant or servant.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To staff with female labor.
* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54
* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77
To make effeminate or womanish.
* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:
As a proper noun cork
is principal city of county cork.As a noun woman is
an adult female human.As a verb woman is
to staff with female labor.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
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woman
English
(wikipedia woman)Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmenNoun
(women)- And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .
- I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men
- But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- By her woman I sent your message.
Synonyms
* see * female * ladyAntonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): manDerived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s libVerb
(en verb)- Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
- Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.
- The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .