core
/kˈɔr/
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Definitions
Noun
a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
Noun
the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
Noun
the central part of the Earth
Noun
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"
Noun
a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
Noun
an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
Noun
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
Noun
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"
Noun
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
Noun
a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
Verb
remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
Synonyms
burden
center
centre
Congress of Racial Equality
core group
effect
essence
gist
heart
heart and soul
inwardness
kernel
magnetic core
marrow
meat
nitty-gritty
nub
nucleus
pith
substance
sum
More General Terms
bar
center
centre
chamber
cognitive content
content
core out
hollow
hollow out
import
meaning
mental object
midpoint
NGO
nongovernmental organization
sample
set
significance
signification
toroid
torus