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| cork | |
| 1. sost. sughero | |
| the children were playing with little boats made of cork - i bambini giocavano con delle barchette fatte di sughero | |
| 2. sost. tappo (di bottiglia, di sughero o altro materiale) | |
| the bottle was sealed with a plastic cork - la bottiglia era chiusa con un tappo di plastica | |
| 3. sost. (botanica) (propriamente cork oak) quercia sughera, Quercus suber | |
| 4. verb. tappare, turare | |
| to cork a bottle of wine - tappare una bottiglia di vino | |
| 5. verb. annerire (in particolare annerire qualcosa con i residui di carbonella) | |
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| cork | |
| 1. subst. The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material. |  |
| 2. subst. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material. | |
| Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic. | |
| 3. subst. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork. | |
| 4. subst. The cork oak, Quercus suber. | |
| 5. subst. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants | |
| 6. v. To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. | |
| 7. v. To blacken (as) with a burnt cork | |
| 8. v. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. | |
| 9. v. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat. | |
| He corked his bat, which was discovered when it broke, causing a controversy. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma. | |
| The vicious tackle corked his leg. | |
| 11. v. (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. | |
| 12. subst. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead. | |
| 13. v. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver. | |
| 14. adj. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation. | |
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| turacciolo | |
| 1. subst. cork, stopper | |
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