different between cork vs coke

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English cork (“oak bark, cork”), from Middle Dutch curc (“cork (material or object)”), either from Spanish corcho (“cork (material or object)”) (also corcha or corche) or from Old Spanish alcorque (“cork sole”). Doublet of cortex.

Noun

cork (countable and uncountable, plural corks)

1. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
2. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.

3. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
4. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
5. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.

Translations

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

1. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     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.

2. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork
3. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
4. To fill with cork, as the center of a baseball bat.

5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
   • ‘Must have corked my leg when I got up,’ he thought.

   • 2010, Andrew Stojanovski, Dog Ear Cafe, large print 16pt, page 191,

     Much to my relief he had only corked his leg when he had jumped.
6. (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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the traversal path resembling that of a corkscrew.

Noun

cork (plural corks)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.

Derived terms

• double cork (two such maneuvers in a single jump)
• triple cork (three such maneuvers in a single jump)
• quad cork (four such maneuvers in a single jump)

Translations

Verb

cork (third-person singular simple present corks, present participle corking, simple past and past participle corked)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.

Adjective

cork (not comparable)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: cork

References

Anagrams

• Kroc, Rock, rock

French

Etymology

English cork (“corkscrew”)

Noun

cork m (plural corks)

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) cork (An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle English colke.

Alternative forms

• coak (obsolete)

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
   • The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

Derived terms

• biocoke

Translations

Verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)

1. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.
2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
3. (automotive) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.

Derived terms

• decoke
• decoking

Translations

Etymology 2

Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

Noun

coke (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

Translations

See also

• coca

Etymology 3

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

Noun

coke (plural cokes)

1. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
3. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).

Synonyms

• (soft drink): see the list at soda

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coke”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?k/
• Hyphenation: coke
• Rhymes: -o?k
• Homophone: kook

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. (chiefly in the plural) coke (type of processed carbon used as fuel)

Usage notes

The singular is less common than the plural form in Dutch, which may also be used like an uncountable singular.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke.

Noun

coke m (uncountable)

1. (slang) cocaine, coke

   Synonym: cocaïne

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English coke (“residue from roasting in a coal oven”).

Noun

coke m (plural cokes)

1. coke (form of carbon)

Derived terms

• cokerie

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English coke (“cocaine”).

Noun

coke f (plural cokes)

1. coke (cocaine)

Synonyms

• cocaïne

Further reading

• “coke” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

coke m (invariable)

1. coke (form of carbon)