cork

1. 1.

   close a bottle with a cork

   Synonymscork up

   Antonymsuncork

   Broaderplug
2. 2.

   stuff with cork

   “The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter”

   Broaderstuff

Other forms of cork

plural

corks·

past tense

corked·

present participle

corking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cork

What does cork mean?

cork means "outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cork?

cork has 1 syllable: cork. In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹk/.

What is another word for cork?

Close synonyms include phellem, bottle cork, bob, bobber, bobfloat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cork?

The recorded antonyms are uncork.

Is cork a common word?

cork is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cork?

1 word rhymes with cork. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.