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cork

I. cork1 /kɔːk $ kɔːrk/ noun
[date : 1200-1300; Origin : Probably from Arabic qurq, from Latin cortex; ⇨ cortex]
1. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the bark (=outer part) of a tree from southern Europe and North Africa, used to make things:
  ▪ a cork bulletin board

2. [COUNTABLE]
a long round piece of cork or plastic which is put into the top of a bottle, especially a wine bottle, to keep liquid inside
• • •
THESAURUS
cover something that is put on or over something else to protect it, for example a piece of metal, plastic, or glass :
  ▪ a manhole cover
  ▪ the cover that goes over the barbecue
covering a layer of something, or a sheet of something, that covers something else :
  ▪ There was light covering of snow on the ground.
  ▪ The hard shell acts as a protective covering.
  ▪ the cloth coverings on the altar
lid a cover for a container such as a pan or a box :
  ▪ the lid of the box
  ▪ a saucepan lid
top/cap the thing that you put on top of a bottle, tube, or pen, in order to prevent the liquid or other things inside from coming out :
  ▪ I can’t find the cap for the pen.
  ▪ Put the top back on the milk!
  ▪ the cap that goes on the toothpaste
cork the top part that you put on top of a bottle of wine :
  ▪ Can you take off the cork for me?
wrapping (also wrap especially American English) a sheet of paper, plastic etc that is put around something in order to cover or protect it :
  ▪ John tore the wrapping off his presents.
  ▪ The lamp was still in its wrapping.
wrapper a piece of paper or plastic that is put around something you buy, especially a small object :
  ▪ Put the candy wrappers in your pocket.
  ▪ He took the drinking straw out of its wrapper.

II. cork2 verb [TRANSITIVE]
to close a bottle by blocking the hole at the top tightly with a long round piece of cork or plastic OPP uncork

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
champagne
The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.
Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks.
No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.
At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping.
The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
And the champagne corks were popping as Kirkby's latest housing co-operative celebrated its success.
Yet no one is popping champagne corks.
VERB
pop
Simultaneous popping of corks and champagne all round.
Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks.
Yet no one is popping champagne corks.
He came back, enthusiastically popped the cork and poured two glasses of the fizzy wine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Announcement of the awards set champagne corks popping.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
He was twiddling a piece of cork and sucking on his empty pipe.
Hebron is a cork in the bottle.
In 1939, leather was scarce so Magli introduced cork, fabric, velvet, fiber and wood to his shoes.
In the living room, a cork or two popped, releasing a stinging whistle of pressure into the air.
Once you take the cork out, hopefully other things will start to flow.
Open the wine, lucky you've got a vacuum cork.
Out with the corks of the wine, assuming you haven't done so already, and empty it into a saucepan.

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