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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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.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



... had touched the core of the tumor. One gets a public tongue-lashing from a man concerning money borrowed; well, how is one going to challenge him without first handing back the borrowed money? It was a scalding thought! The rotten joists beneath the ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
... made from the emotional platform of the moral reformer, or the intellectual platform of the would-be scientist. We are left with a feeling that the matter has been handled but not dealt with: that the knife has not reached the core.) ...
— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner
... school and give all my time to it. Many of the men had moved and others had gone into other work but I kept at it night after night trotting from one end of the city to the other until I rounded up about thirty of them. This seemed to me enough to form a core. I could pick up others from time to time as I found them. The men remembered me and when I told them something of my plan they all agreed with a grin to report for work as soon as they were free. And this was how Carleton's ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton
... when thy will my life shall hold, Thine to the very core, The world which that same will did mold I shall love ten ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... from the yellow old paper? It will be bitter—we were all bitter in those days! though to-day we are so fraternal and harmonious. With his trenchant pen, Daniel pierced to the core of the matter; and the paper may give some idea of ...
— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke


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