cork

Converse of object

• pop: Enough of the background, let's pop the cork.
• pull: You pull the arm down and then raise it pulling the cork out of the bottle.
• remove: Plastic screw cork lovingly removed, held high in shipyard hardened hands.

Adjective modifier

• burnt: Chris no longer needed to rub burnt cork on his face to suggest Indy's whiskers.
• synthetic: The entire Alpha Zeta range is sealed with synthetic cork.
• plastic: Plastic screw cork lovingly removed, held high in shipyard hardened hands.

Modifies a noun

• borer: You can do this by using a cork borer to fit the boiling tube.
• stopper: Later examples have screw in pottery or metal stoppers, or a simple push in cork stopper.
• oak: The forests are ancient, with cork oak trees living for up to 600 years.
• taint: The cork industry have done a huge amount of work to find the causes of cork taint.
• bark: The depth can be varied by placing smooth rocks or cork bark in the water will help the creatures stay out of trouble.
• grease: Give the cork a really good application of cork grease.

Modifying Another Word

• loosely: Pour while still warm into hot bottles and cork loosely.
• tightly: In the morning skim off the yeast and bottle the liquid, but do not cork tightly at first.

Noun used with modifier

• champagne: How do you loosen a stubborn champagne cork from the bottle?
• crown: The lever device also contains a crown cork bottle opener. ideal buy along with the BBQ apron.
• bottle: You simply remove the bottle cork to reveal a bubble wand.
• wine: In my continuing straw pole on whether to use cork or plastic to stopper wine cork wins by 90 % .

Preposition: in

• bottle: Whatever solution was to be adopted, Mr Stirling was quite right to characterize the farmer as " the cork in the bottle " .

Preposition: from

• bottle: The wing nut action is for removing the cork from the bottle once the helix has been twisted into the cork normally.