English Dictionary

cork

IPA（発音記号）

/kɔɹk/

動詞

他動詞 オーストラリア英語

(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.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）瓶などにコルク栓を用いて密封する、封をする。 / （他動詞）焦げたコルクで黒くする。 / （他動詞）瓶のコルクを開けようとして残したままにする。 / （他動詞）物をコルクで充填する、詰める。

Before aging the wine, we cork each bottle by hand to ensure it matures properly.

熟成させる前に、私たちはワインのボトルをすべて手作業でコルク栓します。

意味（1）

(transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.

Arms draped on shoulders, kick-stepping in circles, they swing bottles of wine. Purpled thumbs cork the bottles. The wine leaps and jumps behind green glass.

意味（2）

(transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.

意味（3）

To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

意味（4）

To fill with cork.

意味（5）

(transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.

He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy.

意味（6）

(transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.

The vicious tackle corked his leg.

意味（7）

(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.

Kate remembered then, the family fish camp a mile or so up Amartuq Creek, the very creek across the mouth of which Yuri Andreev had tried to cork Joe Anahonak not half an hour before.

corks （ present singular third-person ）

corking （ participle present ）

corked （ participle past ）

corked （ past ）