Cork or CORK may refer to:

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* Cork County (UK Parliament constituency)

United States

* Cork, Georgia * 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 ...

, a football club * Cork City W.F.C., 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 ( ...

. See List of snowboard tricks. *

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 * ...

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 ...

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 ...

, a digital data format *

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 ...

, a wine fault *

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 ...

, a sailing regatta *

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