英语词汇“corkiness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cork /körk/

noun

The outer bark of the cork tree, a species of oak found in S Europe, N Africa, etc

A stopper, eg for a wine bottle, made of cork

Any stopper

A tissue of close-fitting, thick-walled cells, almost airtight and watertight, forming bark or covering the surfaces of wounds (botany)

A piece of cork

A fisherman's float made of cork

adjective

Made of cork

transitive verb

To stop with a cork

To stop up

To bottle up or repress (with up; figurative)

To blacken (esp the face) with burnt cork

ORIGIN: Perh from Sp alcorque cork slipper, which may be from L quercus oak, with the Arabic article al; Sp has also corche, corcha, corcho, perh from L cortex bark, rind

corkˈage noun

A charge made in a restaurant, etc for serving wine not bought on the premises

corked adjective

Stopped as by a cork

(of wine) tainted as if by the cork, generally in fact by a fungus which develops on the cork

Blackened by burnt cork

Drunk (old slang)

corkˈer noun

A person or thing that is an excellent example of its kind (slang)

A person or device that inserts corks

corkˈiness noun

corkˈing adjective (slang)

Surpassing
Excellent
Tremendous

corkˈy adjective

Of or resembling cork
(of wine) corked (N American)

corkˈboard noun

A thin composite board made of cork and resin, used as flooring and as insulation

corkˈborer noun

An instrument for boring holes in corks to receive glass tubes in chemical apparatus

cork cambium noun

Phellogen

corkˈ-cutter noun

A person employed in cutting corks for bottles, etc
An instrument used for this

corkˈ-heeled adjective

(of shoes, etc) having cork heels
Wanton (obsolete)

cork mat noun

A mat made of pieces of cork with rubber and linseed oil

cork oak noun

A S European species of oak (Quercus suber) from which cork is obtained for commercial use in Spain and Portugal

corkˈscrew noun

A device, usu consisting of a piece of metal in the shape of a screw, for drawing corks from bottles

adjective

Like a corkscrew in shape

intransitive verb

To move in a spiral manner

transitive verb

To pull out with difficulty (eg a cork)
To obtain information from by force or cunning

cork-soleˈ noun

An inner shoe-sole made of cork

corkˈ-tipped adjective

(of a cigarette) having a filter of cork

corkˈtree noun

The cork oak
A name applied to various trees with corky bark or very light wood

corkwing wrasse noun

A small reddish-brown or greenish wrasse (Crenilabrus melops) found in N European waters

corkˈwood noun

Very light wood
A name applied to many trees with light wood, eg balsa, alligator apple