CORE - 24 definitions found
core n 1: a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: core, nucleus, core group] 2: the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" 3: the central part of the Earth 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty}] 5: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill 6: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE] 7: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 8: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" [syn: core, magnetic core] 9: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place 10: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil v 1: remove the core or center from; "core an apple" core cero core 1398, probably from O.Fr. coeur "core of fruit, heart of lettuce," lit. "heart," from L. cor "heart." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) core I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a central and often foundational part usually distinct from the enveloping part by a difference in nature <the core of the city>: as a. the usually inedible central part of some fruits (as a pineapple); especially the papery or leathery carpels composing the ripened ovary in a pome fruit (as an apple) b. the portion of a foundry mold that shapes the interior of a hollow casting c. a vertical space (as for elevator shafts, stairways, or plumbing apparatus) in a multistory building d. (1) a mass of iron serving to concentrate and intensify the magnetic field resulting from a current in a surrounding coil (2) a tiny doughnut-shaped piece of magnetic material (as ferrite) used in computer memories (3) a computer memory consisting of an array of cores strung on fine wires; broadly the internal memory of a computer e. the central part of a celestial body (as the earth or sun) usually having different physical properties from the surrounding parts f. a nodule of stone (as flint or obsidian) from which flakes have been struck for making implements g. the conducting wire with its insulation in an electric cable h. an arrangement of a course of studies that combines under basic topics material from subjects conventionally separated and aims to provide a common background for all students <core curriculum> i. the place in a nuclear reactor where fission occurs 2. a. a basic, essential, or enduring part (as of an individual, a class, or an entity) <the staff had a core of experts> <the core of her beliefs> b. the essential meaning ; gist <the core of the argument> c. the inmost or most intimate part <honest to the core> 3. a part (as a thin cylinder of material) removed from the interior of a mass especially to determine composition II. transitive verb (cored; coring) Date: 15th century to remove a core from <core an apple> • corer noun III. noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of Middle English chore chorus, company, perhaps from Latin chorus Date: 1622 chiefly Scottish a group of people Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) CORE abbreviation Congress of Racial Equality Oxford English Reference Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary core (cores, coring, cored) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The core of a fruit is the central part of it. It contains seeds or pips. Peel the pears and remove the cores. N-COUNT: oft n N 2. If you core a fruit, you remove its core. ...machines for peeling and coring apples. VERB: V n 3. The core of an object, building, or city is the central part of it. ...the earth's core... The core of the city is a series of ancient squares. = centre N-COUNT: usu with poss 4. The core of something such as a problem or an issue is the part of it that has to be understood or accepted before the whole thing can be understood or dealt with. ...the ability to get straight to the core of a problem... = heart N-SING: the N, usu N of n 5. A core team or a core group is a group of people who do the main part of a job or piece of work. Other people may also help, but only for limited periods of time. We already have our core team in place... A core of about six staff would continue with the project. N-SING: N n, N of n 6. In a school or college, core subjects are a group of subjects that have to be studied. The core subjects are English, mathematics and science... ...a core of nine academic subjects. N-SING: usu N n 7. The core businesses or the core activities of a company or organization are their most important ones. The group plans to concentrate on six core businesses... However, the main core of the company performed outstandingly. N-SING: usu N n 8. see also hard core, hard-core, soft-core 9. You can use to the core to describe someone who is a very strong supporter of someone or something and will never change their views. For example, you can say that someone is Republican to the core. The villagers are royalist to the core. = through and through PHRASE: adj/n PHR 10. If someone is shaken to the core or shocked to the core, they are extremely shaken or shocked. Leonard was shaken to the core; he'd never seen or read anything like it. PHRASE: usu -ed PHR Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary CORE Big Comprehensive Abbreviation Dictionary core Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\, n. (Elec.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cord (k?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Coring.] 1. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. He's likee a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out. --Marston. 2. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\, n. [Cf. Chore.] (Mining.) A miner's underground working time or shift. --Raymond. Note: The twenty-four hours are divided into three or four cores. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\, n. [Heb. k[=o]r: cf. Gr. ko`ros.] A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. --Num. xi. 32 (Douay version). Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. c[oe]ur, fr. L. cor heart. See Heart.] 1. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. --Byron. 2. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. 4. (Founding) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern. 5. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 6. (Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Core \Core\ (k[=o]r), n. [F. corps. See Corps.] A body of individuals; an assemblage. [Obs.] He was in a core of people. --Bacon. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Cor \Cor\ (k[^o]r), n. [Heb. k[=o]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.] Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; `in core', for example, means `in memory' (as opposed to `on disk'), and both core dump} and the `core image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia CORE ko'-re (Kore): In the King James Version, Jude 1:11, used as a variant for Korah. See KORAH, 3. Core, WV Zip code(s): 26529 Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms core n. Heart, inner part, inmost part, essential part, essence, centre. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) core kɔ: n. 1 centre, heart, middle, nucleus, inside(s): Remove the core of the apple first. 2 essence, marrow, heart, pith, gist, quintessence, sum and substance: The core of the problem is her refusal to consider any alternative. --v. 3 pit, seed: The pie might have tasted better if you'd cored the apples first. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 206 Moby Thesaurus words for "core": Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Little Hungary, Little Italy, West End, West Side, amidships, amount, average, axiom, axis, barrio, base, basis, beginning, bench mark, black ghetto, blighted area, body, bosom, bulk, burden, business district, cardinal point, center, center of action, center of gravity, central, central city, centroid, centrum, chief thing, city center, climax, commencement, consequence, cornerstone, corpus, crisis, critical point, crux, dead center, deepest recesses, diameter, diaphragm, distillate, distillation, downtown, elixir, epicenter, equator, equatorial, equidistant, essence, essential, essential matter, fabric, flower, focus, foundation, fundamental, ghetto, gist, gravamen, great point, greenbelt, halfway, heart, heart of hearts, high point, hub, hypostasis, import, importance, important thing, inner, inner city, inner essence, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, insides, interior, interior man, intermediary, intermediate, intern, internal, intrados, inward, issue, kernel, keystone, landmark, main point, main thing, marrow, mass, material, material point, matter, mean, meat, medial, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, medulla, mesial, metacenter, mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midpoint, midriff, midships, midst, midtown, midway, milestone, nave, navel, nub, nuclear, nucleus, nuts and bolts, omphalos, origin, outskirts, penetralia, pit, pith, pivot, postulate, principle, purport, quick, quid, quiddity, quintessence, real issue, recap, recapitulation, recesses, red-light district, residential district, resume, root, run-down neighborhood, run-through, rundown, salient point, sap, secret place, secret places, seed, shopping center, significance, sine qua non, skid road, skid row, slum, slums, soul, spirit, staple, start, storm center, stuff, substance, substantive point, suburbia, suburbs, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, tenderloin, tenement district, the bottom line, the nitty-gritty, the point, thick, thick of things, thrust, turning point, umbilicus, upshot, uptown, urban blight, vital center, vitals, waist, waistline, zone |
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