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cork
noun[ C/U ]
us/kɔrk/
a light material obtained from the bark (= outer layer) of a tree, or a small, soft cylinder of this material that is pushed into the top of a bottle to close it:
[ C ]The waiter took the cork out of the bottle.

Examples of cork

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Seasonal variation of foraging niches in a guild of passerine birds in a cork-oak woodland.
The corks of tubes containing alcohol should be covered with paraffin wax to prevent leakage.
A beetle refuge was provided in each miniplot consisting of a square of cork flooring tile (40 x 40 x 5 mm).
The interior of the tube was filled with loosely packed pulverized cork, thereby eliminating natural convection heat transfer to the interior.
A cork borer was used to remove five discs from each leaf, avoiding areas with large veins.
The preparation is now mounted as a mosquito should be, and is fixed by means of the stout pin on a broad cork setting-board.
Once gathered, this sample is corked, labelled and safely archived.
In the mini-plot experiment a section of cork tile was provided as a refuge for the beetles.
The upper end of the cage is closed with a cork stopper.
The animal was swaddled in moist cheesecloth and secured to a piece of cork bolted to a rotatable stage.
Strips of cork-carpet and peat for pinning opei'ations, and for improvising storeboxes.
A cork borer was used to cut 2.5 cm diameter broad bean leaf discs, which were inserted into five hair-clip cages (mesh size 0.5 mm).
One end is closed with a cork stopper through which a hole is bored.
The corks should be of good quality and waxed to prevent evaporation of the spirit.
The cork (with hole) end rests in a groove immediately over an opening in a sheet of galvanised iron which forms the cover of a water tank below.
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