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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- (snowboarding) a snowboarding aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- 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.
Verbit
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (snowboarding) to perform such a maneuver
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
Adjektiivit
- (snowboarding) having the property of a head over heels rotation
Esimerkit
- I confess my confidence was shaken by these actions, though I knew well enough that his leg was no more cork than my own
- Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic.
- 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.
- 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.
- As he moved away again, William winced at an ache in his thigh.
- ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.
- “I′m okay. I must have corked my thigh when Bruce fell onto me. I′ll be fine.”
- Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
- I corked my thigh late in the game, which we won, and came off.
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