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How to pronounce “cork”
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Pronunciation guide for cork
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cork with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The 24-Hour Wine Expert
with a natural cork, sometimes, in about 3% of cases,
- Definition summary
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
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How to pronounce cork
The 24-Hour Wine Expert
with a natural cork, sometimes, in about 3% of cases,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cork”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- To fill with cork.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
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