(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.
Sulk
Definition:
(n.) A furrow.
(v. i.) To be silently sullen; to be morose or obstinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
(2) But last week – last week … Last week there was a sudden burst of sunshine after weeks of sulking sky.
(3) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
(4) The marching boots were thrown to the back of the cupboard and you went into a major sulk.
(5) He has been accused by the Eurosceptic press of treachery, a vanishing act and a euro sulk.
(6) Her cat is in a sulk, she says, because he hasn't been getting enough attention because of all the fuss.
(7) There was no national outrage over Sulk’s murder, nor over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Laramie girl, Christin Lamb, that summer.
(8) He loves the club and the team and he is an incredible professional, so I don’t think you would ever expect him to sulk,” Martínez said.
(9) Certainly, better act to change your destiny than do what Edward Heath did after being beaten in the Conservative leadership election of 1975 until his death 30 years later: sulk.
(10) The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of "a great political sulk", after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.
(11) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
(12) But then what is known in Whitehall as the "Lansley sulk" over his 18-month opposition to the policy of setting a minimum price for alcohol meant he was never going to stand up in parliament to defend it.
(13) Instead, the Australian electorate is watching aghast as Labor's two major political stars plot and sulk and tear each other apart in public – and fight to the death in a secret party ballot.
(14) People try masking this emotion or express it in specific ways nonverbally, such as sulking or not eating.
(15) Now there were three people sulking in the House, though Gove looked slightly more cheerful.
(16) No sulking or feeling sorry for themselves after such an unfortunate goal; just a quiet determination to get an equalizer.
(17) They're also close to wrapping up deals for Sevilla's Alvaro Negredo and Fiorentina's Stevan Jovetic and could battle Chelsea for the signing of PSG's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who's in a sulk about the arrival of Edinson Cavani.
(18) When he came to see the computer tortoises in 1951 – they responded to light and scuttled back home when the bulb was switched on in their hutches – he also managed to break a game playing computer by recognising the work of a protege and cracking the algorithm on the spot: the computer flashed both "you've won" and "you've lost" messages at him, and then shut itself down in a sulk.
(19) Lots of Blairites left in a sulk because David Miliband wasn’t leader and it is generally the case that those that then joined are sympathetic to the leader,” said the source.
(20) The point is, I didn’t make the cut, and you know, you kind of think, fine, I understand Nick’s got to make tough choices, and there’s no point sulking.” So he decided to run for party president instead.