cork

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. (countable, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
3. (countable, uncountable) A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
4. (countable, uncountable) An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
5. (countable, uncountable) The cork oak, Quercus suber.

Verb

1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
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. (transitive) To fill with cork.
6. (Australia, transitive) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
7. 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.
8. (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.

Verb

To perform such a maneuver.

Adj

Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Conceptos

corcho

tapón

taponar

encorchar

tapa

tapon

bornizo

hacer revocar

rellenar con corcho

tapar con corcho

corcho de botella

tampón

tapar

tapón de corcho

tapa de corcho

Sinónimos

stopper

plug

lid

cap

seal

🦭

cover

bob

stop up

bobfloat

block

bobber

phellem

bung

stopple

subereous

cork up

suberic

bottle cork

stop

🛑

peg

corky

plug up

bottle stopper

spigot

float

close

top

🔝

suber

soft wood

stop with a cork

seal lock

woodnog

cork bark

cork wood

natural cork

cork plug

bast

block up

boards

bottle cap

choke back

clogging

closing

corkboard

lichen

look down

mushroom

🍄

nog

obstruct

obstruction

Traducciones

liège

Kork

sughero

bouchon

cortiça

kurk

tappo

φελλός

Korken

suro

tappare

rolha

turacciolo

Pfropfen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɔɹk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: cork

In summary

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.