cork

«cork» in Mova's school dictionary: A light, soft, springy material made from the thick bark… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cork — uncountable for the material; a cork, corks — a stopper); verb (cork, corks, corked, corking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A light, soft, springy material made from the thick bark of the cork oak tree. tree →

2) A cork is a stopper made of this material (or plastic) that closes a bottle. tree →

3) As a verb, to close a bottle with a cork. tree →

4) Cork is also a city and county in the south of Ireland. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, cork floats because it is less dense than water, and it is a good insulator of heat and sound; it is used for noticeboards (corkboards), floats on fishing lines, coasters and floor tiles. The cork oak grows mainly in Portugal and Spain, and its bark is stripped carefully every nine years without killing the tree, so cork is renewable. In history, Robert Hooke looked at thin cork under a microscope and named "cells". Phrases: "a cork board", "pop the cork", "cork oak", "float like a cork".

examples

• The cork floated on top of the water. tree →
• Pin your drawing on the cork board. tree →
• He pulled the cork out of the bottle with a pop. tree →
• Cork comes from the bark of the cork oak tree. tree →
• We tested which materials float: cork, wood and a stone. tree →
• Cork is light and squashy. tree →
• Robert Hooke saw tiny cells in a slice of cork. tree →
• My cousin lives in Cork, in Ireland. tree →
• Then they corked it down tightly, and carefully wrapped it up. tree →

note

Uncountable as a material ("made of cork"), countable as stoppers ("two corks"). The Irish place is written with a capital: Cork. A "corkscrew" is the tool used to pull out corks — only adults should use it, as it is sharp.

In the corpora

• In Cork, twenty-three people squeeze into Gran's house for Christmas.
• Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.
• Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.
• The Dead Sea is so salty that people float on it like corks; salty water holds you up more than fresh water.
• A teacher in Cork gave her class three tests for any prank.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cork» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.