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Core   /kɔr/   Listen
Core

noun
1.
A small group of indispensable persons or things.  Synonyms: core group, nucleus.
2.
The center of an object.
3.
The central part of the Earth.
4.
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.  Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.  "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"
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.  Synonym: Congress of Racial Equality.
7.
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.  Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, 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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.  Synonym: 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.
verb
(past & past part. cord; pres. part. coring)
1.
Remove the core or center from.



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"Core" Quotes from Famous Books



... and sensitive, and inflated by success and flattery, Alfred Hardie had been torturing himself ever since he fled Edward's female relations. He was mortified to the core. He confounded "the fools" (his favourite synonym for his acquaintance) for going and calling Dodd's mother an elder sister, and so not giving him a chance to divine her. And then that he, who prided himself on his discrimination, ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... Kingswood colliers, and turned Cornwall wreckers into honest men; and the formally pious spoke of the worshippers at this new shrine of faith with a serene sneer, and classed them as a parcel of fiercely ejaculating, hymn-singing nonentities. But there was vitality at the core of their creed, and its fuller triumphs were but a question of time. In 1817, Methodism became dissatisfied with its Back-lane quarters, and migrated into a lighter, healthier, and cleaner portion of the town—Lune-street—where a building was erected for ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... flattened as the vessel pitched and rose again, and as she sheered about, it wavered round the point that seemed to attract it, like a soap suds bubble blown from a tobacco-pipe, before it is shaken into the air; at the core it was comparatively bright, but faded into a halo. It shed a baleful and ominous light on the surrounding objects; the group of sailors on the forecastle looked like spectres, and they shrunk together, and ...
— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous
... which caused imperfections in the rollers. After pouring, it was necessary to let the moulds stand all night, so the composition might become sufficiently cool to permit the "drawing" of the rollers. This was effected by placing a stick against the iron journal at one end of the roller core and pushing until the roller was forced ...
— The Building of a Book • Various
... only to protect the Gatun dam but also to get to the core of the conspiracy and bring the plotters to punishment. The men who were plotting on the Isthmus were also plotting in New York. An inkling of the true state of affairs came to him, and he saw that in order to accomplish what he had set out to do his reach must be long enough ...
— Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone - The Plot Against Uncle Sam • G. Harvey Ralphson


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