cork
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /kɔːk/
美 /kɔɹk/
英文释义
名词 n.
- The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
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The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.; The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
— I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
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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.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
动词 v.
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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.
- To perform such a maneuver.
- To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To fill with cork.
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To fill with cork.; To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
— He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
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To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
— The vicious tackle corked his leg.
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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.
— Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.
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To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
— […] corking the streets is a challenge to capitalist ideologies, like skateboarding in parking lots and walkways […]
形容词 adj.
- Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
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词源
词源 1
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 Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.
词源 2
From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.
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