English to English
core
('k/oU/r/i/
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noun (n)
- a small group of indispensable persons or things(noun.group)Example:
Five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program.
source: wordnet30 - the center of an object(noun.location)Example:
The ball has a titanium core.
source: wordnet30 - the central part of the Earth(noun.object)source: wordnet30
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience(noun.cognition)Synonym:
center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sumsource: wordnet30 - a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill(noun.object)source: wordnet30
- an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality(noun.group)source: wordnet30
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories(noun.artifact)Example:
Each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit.
source: wordnet30 - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil(noun.artifact)source: wordnet30
- A body of individuals; an assemblage.(noun)source: webster1913
- A miner's underground working time or shift.(noun)source: webster1913
- A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.(noun)source: webster1913
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913
- A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- remove the core or center from(verb.contact)Example:
Core an apple.
source: wordnet30 - To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.(verb)source: webster1913