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Materials

* Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product **
Cork (plug) A stopper or cork is a cylindrical or conical closure used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid or bottle cap, which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the inner volume, a bung is partially ...
, a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container ***
Wine cork Wine corks are a stopper used to seal wine bottles. They are typically made from cork (bark of the cork oak), though synthetic materials can be used. Common alternative wine closures include screw caps and glass stoppers. 68 percent of all cor ...


Places


Ireland

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Cork (city) Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city ...
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Metropolitan Cork Metropolitan Cork is a semi-official term which refers to the city of Cork, Ireland, its suburbs, the rural hinterland that surrounds it, and a number of the towns and villages in that hinterland. Some of the latter towns and villages are within t ...
, also known as Greater Cork **
Cork Airport Cork Airport ( ga, Aerfort Chorcaí, ) is the second-largest of the three principal international airports in Ireland, after Dublin and ahead of Shannon. It is located in Cork City, south of the city centre in an area known as Farmers Cros ...
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County Cork County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns a ...


Historical parliamentary constituencies

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Cork City (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Cork City (also known as Cork Borough) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800. Boundaries and boundary changes This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Cork (city), Cork in County Cork. It comprised the w ...
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Cork County (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Cork County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800. Boundaries and Boundary Changes This constituency consisted of the County Cork. It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland up to 1800. History In the ...
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Cork City (UK Parliament constituency) Cork City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1880 to 1922 it returned two members of parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelan ...
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Cork County (UK Parliament constituency) Cork County was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelan ...


United States

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Cork, Georgia Cork is an unincorporated community in Butts County, Georgia, Butts County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History A variant name was "Dublin". The present name is after Cork (city), Cork, in Ireland, the native land of a large ...
* Cork, Kentucky


Organisations

* Cork GAA, responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork * Ye Antient Order of Noble Corks, a masonic order, also known as "The Cork" *
Cork City F.C. Cork City Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Chathair Chorcaí) is an Irish association football club based in Cork. The club was founded and elected to the League of Ireland in 1984. It was one of the first clubs in Ireland (and the first in ...
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Cork City W.F.C. Cork City Women's Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Chathair Chorcaí na mBan) is an Irish women's association football team, based in Cork city. Originally playing at Bishopstown Stadium, from the 2021 Women's National League season, the club ...
, a women's football club


Other uses

* A particular kind of trick in snowboarding and
skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( ...
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Cork (surname) Cork is a surname. People named Cork include: * Alan Cork (born 1959), English footballer and coach * Kenneth Cork (died 1991), English insolvency expert * Bruce Cork (died 1994), American physicist * Dominic Cork (born 1971), English cricketer * ...
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Cork City (barony) Cork City ( ga, Cathair Chorcaí) is a barony (Ireland), barony in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It contains seven civil parishes in Ireland, civil parishes. Legal context Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland a ...
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Cork encoding The Cork (also known as T1 or EC) encoding is a character encoding used for encoding glyphs in fonts. It is named after the city of Cork in Ireland, where during a TeX Users Group (TUG) conference in 1990 a new encoding was introduced for LaTeX. I ...
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Cork taint Cork taint is a broad term referring to a wine fault characterized by a set of undesirable smells or tastes found in a bottle of wine, especially spoilage that can only be detected after bottling, aging and opening. Though modern studies have sho ...
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Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston The Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston (CORK) is an annual multi-class sailing regatta held off the shores of Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beg ...
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Cork (band) Cork is a rock duo/supergroup consisting of Eric Schenkman (formerly of the Spin Doctors) and Corky Laing (formerly of Mountain). Though not an official member, the duo have worked closely with Noel Redding (formerly of The Jimi Hendrix Experien ...
, a 1990s rock duo/supergroup * ''Cork'' (film), a Spanish drama


See also

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Cork County Council Cork County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chorcaí) is the authority responsible for local government in County Cork, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and ...
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Cork Harbour Cork Harbour () is a natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland. It is one of several which lay claim to the title of "second largest natural harbour in the world by navigational area" (after Port Ja ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross The Diocese of Cork and Ross ( ga, Deoise Chorcaí agus Rosa) is a Roman Catholic diocese in southern Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly. The cathedral church of the diocese is Cathedral ...
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Cork tree (disambiguation) Cork tree or corktree may refer to: * Cork oak, ''Quercus suber'', the tree from which most cork is harvested * Chinese cork oak, '' Quercus variabilis'', a tree from which cork is occasionally harvested * Cork-tree, a species of ''Phellodendron'' * ...
* Cork oak, ''
Quercus suber ''Quercus suber'', commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the core ...
'' tree, the main source of cork *
Cork cambium Cork cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums) is a tissue found in many vascular plants as a part of the epidermis. It is one of the many layers of bark, between the cork and primary phloem. The cork cambium is a lateral meristem and is responsible for ...
, a tissue found in many vascular plants as part of the epidermis *
Corke Corke is a surname. People named Corke include: * Anya Corke (born 1990), Hong Kong chess grandmaster *Fiona Corke (born 1961), Australian actress * Hilary Corke (1921–2001), British writer, composer and mineralogist * Kevin Corke ( fl. 1990 ...
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Corky (disambiguation) Corky means cork-like. It is an English and Irish unisex name that also serves as a nickname for Courtney. It may also refer to: People ;Sportspeople *Corky Ballas (born 1960), American competitive ballroom dancer *Corky or Corkie Blow (1877 ...
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Kork (disambiguation) Kork can refer to: Places * Kork, Germany, a district of Kehl, Germany * Kork, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran People * Andres Kork (born 1950), Estonian surgeon and politician * Jüri Kork (born 1947), Estonian politician * Toomas Kork ...
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KORK (disambiguation) Kork can refer to: Places * Kork, Germany, a district of Kehl, Germany * Kork, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran People * Andres Kork (born 1950), Estonian surgeon and politician * Jüri Kork (born 1947), Estonian politician * Toomas Kork ...
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