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CORE (kôr, k

abbr.

Congress of Racial Equality

core (kôr, k

1. The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.

2. The central or innermost part: the hard elastic core of a baseball; a rod with a hollow core.

3. The basic or most important part; the essence: a small core of dedicated supporters; the core of the problem. See Synonyms at substance.

4. A set of subjects or courses that make up a required portion of a curriculum.

5. Electricity A soft iron rod in a coil or transformer that provides a path for and intensifies the magnetic field produced by the windings.

a. Computer Science A memory, especially one consisting of a series of tiny doughnut-shaped masses of magnetic material. Also called core memory.

b. One of the magnetic doughnut-shaped masses that make up such a memory. Also called magnetic core.

7. The central portion of the earth below the mantle, beginning at a depth of about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) and probably consisting of iron and nickel. It is made up of a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.

8. A mass of dry sand placed within a mold to provide openings or shape to a casting.

9. A reactor core.

10. A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the center of a mass by drilling or cutting.

11. The base, usually of soft or inferior wood, to which veneer woods are glued.

12. Archaeology A stone from which one or more flakes have been removed, serving as a source for such flakes or as a tool itself.

tr.v. cored, cor·ing, cores

1. To remove the core from: core apples.

2. To remove (a cylindrical sample) from something, such as a glacier.

[Middle English.]

core

Noun

1. the central part of certain fleshy fruits, containing the seeds

2. the central or essential part of something: the historic core of the city

3. a piece of magnetic soft iron inside an electromagnet or transformer

4. Geol the central part of the earth

5. a cylindrical sample of rock or soil, obtained by the use of a hollow drill

6. Physics the region of a nuclear reactor containing the fissionable material

7. Computers the main internal memory of a computer

Verb

[coring, cored]

to remove the core from (fruit) [origin unknown]

core (kôr)

1. The central or innermost portion of the Earth, lying below the mantle and probably consisting of iron and nickel. It is divided into a liquid outer core, which begins at a depth of 2,898 km (1,800 mi), and a solid inner core, which begins at a depth of 4,983 km (3,090 mi).

2. A piece of magnetizable material, such as a rod of soft iron, that is placed inside an electrical coil or transformer to intensify and provide a path for the magnetic field produced by the current running through the wire windings.

3. The central part of a nuclear reactor where atomic fission occurs. The core contains the fuel, the coolant, and the moderator.

4. A long, cylindrical sample of soil, rock, or ice collected with a drill to study the strata of material that are not visible from the surface.

5. A stone from which one or more flakes have been removed, serving as a tool in itself or as a source of flakes from which other tools could be fashioned. Stones used as cores include flint, chert, and obsidian. See more at core tool.

Core a number of people or objects that form the centre or main part of a group, organization, or society; players in a curling match; miners in one shift, hence, core of people, 1622.

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	core - a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" core group, nucleus set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" cadre - a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
	2.	core - the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" midpoint, centre, center - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure corn cob, corncob - the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn
	3.	core - the central part of the Earth midpoint, centre, center - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
	4.	core - 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" essence, heart and soul, inwardness, nitty-gritty, pith, substance, gist, kernel, nub, meat, sum, marrow, heart, center, centre cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something stuff - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
	5.	core - a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill sample - all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class
	6.	CORE - an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality Congress of Racial Equality NGO, nongovernmental organization - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
	7.	core - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work gist, essence, burden, effect meaning, signification, import, significance - the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"
	8.	core - (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" magnetic core core memory, magnetic core memory - (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories RAM, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory - the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures torus, toroid - a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
	9.	core - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space nuclear reactor, reactor - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
	10.	core - a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil bar - a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" magnet - (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field
Verb	1.	core - remove the core or center from; "core an apple" core out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

core

noun 1. centre,

noun 2. heart, essence, nucleus, kernel, crux, gist, nub, pith

Translations

core [kɔːʳ] n [of earth, nuclear reactor] → centro, núcleo; [of fruit] → corazón m [of problem etc] → esencia, meollo

vt → quitar el corazón de

core [kɔːʳ] n [of fruit] → trognon m, cœur m;

(Tech) [also of earth]; noyau m [of nuclear reactor]; (fig) [of problem etc]; cœur

vt → enlever le trognon or le cœur de;

rotten to the core → complètement pourri

CORE [kɔːʳ] (US) n abbr (= Congress of Racial Equality) → Ausschuss für Rassengleichheit

core [kɔːʳ] n → Kern m;

(of fruit) → Kerngehäuse nt

vt → das Kerngehäuse ausschneiden aus;

rotten to the core → durch und durch schlecht

core [kɔːʳ] n [of fruit] → torsolo;

(TECH) → centro; [of earth, nuclear reactor] → nucleo; [of problem etc] → cuore m; nocciolo

vt → estrarre il torsolo da;

rotten to the core → marcio fino al midollo

core

n core [koː]

the innermost part of something, especially fruit an apple-core; the core of the earth. kern قَلْب، لُب، نواه сърцевина jádřinec, jádro kerne; midte; centrum; hjerte der Kern πυρήνας corazón (fruta); núcleo südamik, tuum هسته؛ بخش درونی siemenkota, ydin coeur לִיבָּה भीतरी भाग, गुठली srž, sredina, jezgra mag inti kjarni torsolo; nucleo しん (과실의) 속 šerdis, vidurys, esmė [] kodols; serde; serdenis; būtība teras binnenste kjerne(hus) rdzeń caroço miez; centru сердцевина; ядро jadrovník; jadro jedro središte kärna แกน göbek, çekirdek 果核, 核心 серцевина; ядро گودا، مغز nhân; lõi 果核, 中心, 核心

to take out the core of (fruit) Core the apples. ontkern يَنزَع نواة الثَّمَـره، يُجوِّف изрязвам сърцевината vyjmout jádřinec udkerne entkernen ξεκουκουτσιάζω quitar el corazón a südamikku välja võtma هسته درآوردن poistaa siemenkota enlever le coeur de גַרעִין बीज कोषक izvaditi jezgru kimagoz membuang bagian tengah tempat biji taka kjarna úr estrarre il torsolo; estrarre la parte centrale しんを抜く (과실의) 속을 빼다 išimti/išpjauti šerdį/vidurį izņemt serdi empulur uitboren ta ut kjernehuset wydrążyć descaroçar a scoate miezul вырезать сердцевину vybrať jadrovník izluščiti jezgro kärna ur เอาแกนออก (จากผลไม้) göbeğini/çekirdeğini çıkarmak 挖去...的果核 вирізати серцевину گودا نكالنا lấy lõi ra 挖去...的果心