What's the difference between cork and dork?

Cork


Definition:

  • (n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
  • (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
  • (n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
  • (v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
  • (2) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
  • (3) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (4) There has been some patching up to do in midfield in recent weeks and that is going to continue for some time, as Morgan Schneiderlin will miss the match against United and Jack Cork, his usual deputy, is out for up to two months.
  • (5) "I think I heard the putt-putt of champagne corks popping in No 11," one Tory said.
  • (6) Apple’s Irish offices are based near Knocknaheeny, an impoverished northern suburb of Cork.
  • (7) This built-in element consists of a drummed (milled) cap reinforced with cast resin, and a cork bedding.
  • (8) So basically, if UK votes to leave, either Northern Ireland joins with Ireland or I’ll have to leave Northern Ireland and move to Dublin, or Cork, or Edinburgh.
  • (9) A cross-sectional study on suberosis was conducted to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and the level of pulmonary function, and their relationships within job categories of exposure to cork dust, toluene diisocyanate (TDI) resin bonding and conidia, among cork workers.
  • (10) Measurements were made in phantoms containing aluminum or cork inhomogeneities.
  • (11) Various aspects relating to the accuracy of density scaling for air and cork slab inhomogeneities are discussed.
  • (12) By taking art out of the gallery and sticking it up, unannounced, in the street, he fostered the idea that he was returning art to the people, a graphic Robin Hood set against the feudal grip of Mayfair's Cork Street.
  • (13) The cork layer of the potato peel prevents dehydration of the wound and protects against exogenous agents.
  • (14) Some say it's best to bang them against a stone wall or step, others that they should be brined, and others still advocate popping a wine cork into the cooking pot.
  • (15) Later, during the early 1930s, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, but soon began to spend more time in the galleries in and around Cork Street, only a stone's throw away from academia, and the pre-war powerhouse of the modern spirit.
  • (16) We have preferably employed the so called "inverted graft", while Regnauld, in his recent monography, defines it less satisfactory than the "cork" or "hat" shaped grafts.
  • (17) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
  • (18) Last weekend, 82,000 people wearing the red and white of Cork or the yellow and blue of Clare watched their heroes play out what many regard as the greatest All-Ireland hurling final.
  • (19) Sandbech, McMorris and Winter X Games champion Max Parrot were among those who threw the much-ballyhooed triple cork, which is three head-over-heels flips considered way more dangerous and athletic and presumed to be the must-have trick to win the first Olympic gold in this sport’s history.
  • (20) The gifted Cork hurler confessed he had “slept better before AI final (All-Ireland)“ than he had on Thursday night.

Dork


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You were well served by my distinguished stand-ins, however, and thanks go to them, too, for keeping Dork Talk alive.
  • (2) Mark Mayer, 38, from Dorking in Surrey, says he faces a similar problem in that his cerebral palsy is not always immediately obvious.
  • (3) Richard Barklie, 50, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, Joshua Parsons, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, and William Simpson, 26, from Ashford, Surrey, were each banned from football matches for five years – the maximum period allowed.
  • (4) His memoirs are wholly uninformative about his motivations and, though called The Turbulent Years, make the Thatcher governments sound about as turbulent as a drizzly morning in Dorking.
  • (5) Were these dorks themselves "role models" as broadcasters they might learn to parse syntactically and grammatically correct sentences in comprehensibly accented English.
  • (6) He claims to have owned the second Macintosh computer bought in the UK (the first apparently went to Douglas Adams) and until last year wrote the Dork Talk technology column for the Guardian.
  • (7) Sharon Campbell Dorking, Surrey • Ann Farmer ( Letters , 15 July) seems concerned that to debate assisted dying gives the message that we don't value the lives of people with disabilities.
  • (8) 12.30pm BST Lord Baker of Dorking used his speech to remind the house of the relatively recent introduction of the concept of compassion to prosecutions against those who assist others to die.
  • (9) Friends Life employs 3,700 people in the UK, with its largest operation in Bristol, and smaller offices in Dorking.
  • (10) Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee chairs a panel that includes Melissa Benn, Lord Baker of Dorking and Cambridge academic Prof Robin Alexander.
  • (11) Now 76 and transmuted into Lord Baker of Dorking, he is smiling again as – in his office at 4 Millbank, a few yards from the houses of parliament and with ITN just across the corridor – he outlines his latest vision for English education.
  • (12) Garrett, with Danielle Molinari and Jo Dorking, meanwhile, live in social housing in Hoxton that has just been bought by a consortium part-owned by Conservative MP Richard Benyon: rents are expected to go up to market rates of £400-£600 a week.
  • (13) Then there is the mystery of Halina Żaboklicka, a Polish woman whose treasured letters were found in the pub’s old barn during a clear-out in 1995 by the then owners Jo Dorkings and Joe Stephens.
  • (14) After allowance for age, sex, social class, and severity of symptoms, subjects in the northern towns of Arbroath and Peterlee who had suffered from low back pain in the past year were three to four times as likely to have consulted their doctor about the problem as those living in the southern towns of St Austell and Dorking.