cork
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)(botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
Đồng nghĩa: phellem
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- 5.
(snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text 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.
- 2.
(transitive)To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- 3.
To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- 4.
To fill with cork.
- 5.
(Australia, transitive)To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
The vicious tackle corked his leg.
2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191, Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
- 6.
(fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- 7.
(transitive)To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- 8.
(snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)(snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
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From Middle English cork (oak bark, cork), from Middle Dutch curc (cork (material or object)), either from Spanish corcho (cork (material or object)) (also corcha or corche) or from alcorque (cork sole). cortex.