Cork

Etymology
From cork:, probably from  كورك:, from  quercus:

Noun

 * 1)  The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
 * 2) 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.
 * 1) An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork
 * 2) The cork oak

Adjective

 * 1)  Made from, or consisting of, cork.
 * Look at that cork statue.

Verb

 * 1)  To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
 * 2)  To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
 * 3) To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
 * 4)  To be quiet.
 * ''He was so loud I told him to cork it.
 * 1) To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.
 * ''He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.
 * 1)  To injure through a blow
 * ''The vicious tackle corked his leg.

Thesaurus
Carling float, air, asphyxiate, balsa, balsa raft, bar, bark, bedarken, besmirch, bind, black, blacken, blackwash, block, block up, blockade, blot, blotch, bob, bonnet, boom, bottle up, box up, bubble, bung, buoy, cage, cap, caulk, ceil, censor, chaff, charcoal, check, check valve, chink, chip, choke, choke off, choke up, clamp down on, clog, clog up, cloister, cobweb, cock, coif, confine, congest, constipate, constrain, coop, coop in, coop up, cork up, cortex, cover, crack down on, crib, crown, crush, dam, dam up, damp down, darken, denigrate, detain, dinge, dome, down, drown, dust, ebonize, encage, enclose, epicarp, ether, extinguish, fairy, faucet, feather, fence in, fill, fill up, float, flue, fluff, foam, foul, froth, fuzz, gag, gossamer, hat, hem in, hold, hold down, hold in, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hood, immure, impound, inhibit, ink, jam, jump on, keep, keep down, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, keep under, kill, lid, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lock in, maintain, melanize, mew, mew up, mote, murk, muzzle, nigrify, obstipate, obstruct, oversmoke, pack, peel, peeling, peg, pen, pen up, phellum, pin, plug, plug up, pontoon, pound, pour water on, preserve, put down, quash, quell, quench, raft, rail in, repress, restrain, restrict, retain, rind, roof, roof in, save, save up, sea cock, seal up, shackle, shade, shadow, shut down on, shut in, shut up, silence, sit down on, sit on, skin, smash, smirch, smoke, smother, smudge, smut, smutch, soot, spigot, spike, spile, spill, sponge, spume, squash, squelch, stanch, stay, stench, stifle, stop, stop up, stopgap, stopper, stopple, strangle, straw, stuff, stuff up, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, surfboard, tap, thistledown, throttle, tip, top, valve, wall in

Noun

 * Arabic: (fillīn)
 * Bulgarian: корк
 * Catalan: suro
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, kurklaag
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: s. m. sughero


 * Latvian: korķis
 * Lithuanian: kamštis
 * Norwegian: kork
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: (fillīna)
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: корк
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 椊 (zuó)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, korkprop
 * Dutch:, stop, stopsel
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , Korken
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Ido:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コルク栓 (koruku-sen)
 * Latvian: korķis, aizbāznis
 * Lithuanian: kamštis
 * Norwegian: kork
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: pampur, zapušač
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: koegabuon
 * Volapük: koegabuon


 * Finnish: koho


 * Norwegian: dupp

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: korkkinen


 * Russian: пробковый

Verb

 * Finnish: korkittaa


 * Volapük: koegabuonön


 * Finnish: mustata, noeta


 * Finnish: pitää turpansa kiinni


 * Finnish: korkittaa


 * Finnish: korkata

Derived terms

 * corkboard
 * corker
 * corking
 * cork oak


 * corkscrew
 * corkwood
 * corky
 * uncork

Anagrams

 * rock, Rock