1. n. The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
2. n. 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. n. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
4. n. The cork oak, Quercus suber.
5. n. (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. n. (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.
cap
1. n. Képi.
2. n. (Habillement) Toque, bonnet.
3. n. Casquette.
4. n. Couvercle.
5. n. Capsule, bouchon (de bouteille).
6. v. Mettre un képi, une casquette, ou un couvercle sur.
7. v. Limiter en haut.
8. n. Majuscule.
All in caps.
Tout en majuscule.
9. n. (Électricité) Capacité électrique.
Parasitic caps.
Capacités parasites.
cap
1. n. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
2. n. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation etc.
3. n. An academic mortarboard
4. n. A protective cover or seal
He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
5. n. A crown for covering a tooth
He had golden caps on his teeth.
6. n. The summit of a mountain etc.
There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
7. n. An artificial upper limit or ceiling
We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
8. n. The top part of a mushroom
9. n. A small amount of gunpowder in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun
Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
10. n. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives
He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
11. n. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
12. n. (soccer) An international appearance
Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
13. n. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
14. n. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
15. n. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
16. n. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
17. n. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
18. n. (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
19. n. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
20. n. A large size of writing paper.
flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
21. v. To cover or seal with a cap
22. v. To award a cap as a mark of distinction etc.
23. v. To lie over or on top of something
24. v. To surpass or outdo
25. v. To set an upper limit on something
cap wages.
26. v. To make something even more wonderful at the end.
That really capped my day.
27. v. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side
28. v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
29. v. (transitive, sports) to select to play for the national team.
Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
30. v. (transitive, obsolete) To uncover the head respectfully.
31. v. To deprive of a cap.
32. n. (finance) Capitalization.
33. n. (informal) An uppercase letter.
34. v. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.
35. n. (electronics) capacitor
Parasitic caps.
36. n. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.
Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
37. v. To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
38. n. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.
tap
1. n. Robinet.
Please pour me some water from the tap.
2. n. Écoute téléphonique.
telephone tap
3. n. (Plomberie) (mécanique) Taraud.
The plumber used a tap to re-seat the drain.
4. v. Taper.
5. v. Tapoter, pianoter.
6. v. Forer, rencontrer, toucher.
7. v. Mettre (un téléphone) sous écoute.
tap
1. n. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
2. n. A device used to dispense liquids.
We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.
3. n. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
a liquor of the same tap
4. n. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
5. n. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
6. n. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
7. n. An interception of communication by authority.
8. n. A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
9. n. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
abdominal tap, pleural tap, spinal tap
10. v. To furnish with taps.
If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!
11. v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
He tapped a new barrel of beer.
12. v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
13. v. To exploit.
Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
14. v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
15. v. To intercept a communication without authority.
He was known to tap cable television
16. v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
17. v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of tempora
18. v. (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.
19. v. (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
20. v. To strike lightly.
21. v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go.
Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.
22. v. To make a sharp noise.
The tree, swaying in the breeze, began to tap on the window pane.
23. v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
24. v. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
I would tap that hot girl over there.
I'd tap that.
25. v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
26. v. (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit.
27. v. To put a new sole or heel on.
to tap shoes
28. n. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
29. n. tap dance
30. n. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
31. n. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.
32. n. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
33. n. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
1. n. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
2. n. A blockage.
The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
3. n. (colloquial) A shoe of any type.
4. n. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. n. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
6. v. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up).
Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
The roads are clogged up with traffic.
7. v. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
8. v. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
9. v. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
congestion
1. n. Afflux, congestion.
congestion
1. n. The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfill
2. n. An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
network congestion
3. n. An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
traffic congestion
4. n. (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic
arterial congestion
venous congestion
congestion of the lungs
5. n. (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
traffic jam
1. n. Embouteillage (routier), bouchon (circulation).
traffic jam
1. n. A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
bung
bung
1. n. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
2. n. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
3. n. (slang) A bribe.
4. n. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
5. n. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
6. v. To plug, as with a bung.
7. v. (Australian) To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck.
8. v. To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
9. v. To pass a bribe.
10. adj. (Australia, NZ, slang) Broken, not in working order.
