CORK
\kˈɔːk], \kˈɔːk], \k_ˈɔː_k]\
Definitions of CORK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a port city in southern Ireland
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outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
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(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
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stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter"
By Princeton University
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a port city in southern Ireland
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outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
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(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
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A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
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A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
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To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
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To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
By Oddity Software
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To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
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Corky.
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The light, porous bark of a tree (the cork oak).
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Anything made of cork, as a stopper for a bottle.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree; a stopper for a bottle.
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To stop with a cork, as a bottle; hence, to hold back: with up.
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Corky.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The outer bark of the cork-tree, an oak found in the south of Europe, etc.: a stopper made of cork.
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To stop with a cork: to stop up.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A variety of tissue found in the hypodermal zone of many trees. The term c. is commonly applied to this tissue only when its cell walls are thin, elastic, and compressible, as in the inner bark of Quercus suber, the latter, and, according to some authorities, also the Quercus occidentalis, furnishing the c. of commerce.
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A stopper made from c.
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In Scotland, Lecanora tartarea.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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