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Materials

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Cork (material) Cork is an impermeable buoyant material. It is the phellem layer of bark tissue which is harvested for commercial use primarily from '' Quercus suber'' (the cork oak), which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Cork is compos ...
, an impermeable buoyant plant product **
Stopper (plug) A stopper, bung, or cork is a cylindrical or conical Closure (container), closure used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube, or barrel (storage), barrel. Description Unlike a Lid (container), lid or bottle cap, which encloses a con ...
, or "cork", a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container ***
Wine cork A wine cork is a stopper used to seal a wine bottle. 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 c ...
an item to seal or reseal wine


Places


Ireland

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Cork (city) Cork ( ; from , meaning 'marsh') is the second-largest city in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the List of settlements on the island of Ireland ...
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Metropolitan Cork Metropolitan Cork includes 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 the administrative area of Cou ...
, also known as Greater Cork **
Cork Airport Cork Airport () is the second-largest international airport in the Republic of Ireland, after Dublin Airport, Dublin and ahead of Shannon Airport, Shannon. It is south of Cork (city), Cork City centre, in an area known as Farmers Cross. In ...
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County Cork County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...


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 until its abolition on 1 January 1801. Boundaries and boundary changes This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Cork (city), Cork in ...
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County Cork (Parliament of Ireland constituency) County Cork was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. Area This constituency consisted of 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 United Kingdom constituencies, 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 King ...
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County Cork (UK Parliament constituency) County Cork 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 Irel ...


United States

* Cork, Georgia *
Cork, Kentucky Cork is an unincorporated community located in Metcalfe County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United Stat ...


Organisations

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Cork GAA The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Cork GAA is one of the 32 County board (Gaelic games), county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork and the Cork county teams. It ...
, responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork *
Ye Antient Order of Noble Corks Ye Antient Order of Noble Corks (American usage) or Ancient & Honourable Societas Korcorum Magnae Britanniae (Noble Order of Corks) (English usage), universally known, informally, as The Cork, is an informal degree allied to Freemasonry. It is ...
, a masonic order, also known as "The Cork" *
Cork City F.C. Cork City Football Club 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 Cork) to field a team of professiona ...
, a football club * Cork City W.F.C., a women's football club


Other uses

* A particular kind of trick in
snowboarding Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralym ...
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skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International S ...
. * Cork (surname) *
Cork City (barony) Cork City () 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 as divisions of Count ...
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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 an off-odor and off-flavor wine fault arising from the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA), a chemical compound that represents one of the strongest off-flavors, and one "generated naturally in foods/b ...
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Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston The Canadian Olympic Regattas Kingston (CORK) is a non-profit volunteer organization located at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, home of Sail Canada, producing annual olympic multi-class sailing regattas held off the shores of Kingston, Ontario ...
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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), ''Cork'' (film), a Spanish drama


See also

* Cork County Council * Cork Harbour * Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross * Cork tree (disambiguation) * Cork oak, ''Quercus suber'' tree, the main source of cork * Cork cambium, a tissue found in many vascular plants as part of the epidermis * Corke, a surname * Corky (disambiguation) * Kork (disambiguation) * KORK (disambiguation) * * {{Disambiguation, geo