Cork

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. isim 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”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
5. isim The cork oak, Quercus suber.
6. fiil To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
7. fiil To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
8. fiil To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
9. fiil To fill with cork.
10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.

    “The vicious tackle corked his leg.”

12. fiil 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.”

13. fiil 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 […]”

14. isim An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
15. fiil To perform such a maneuver.
16. sıfat Having the property of a head over heels rotation.
17. özel isim The principal city of County Cork, Ireland.
18. özel isim A county in the Republic of Ireland (County Cork).