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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.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



... the telegraphic news of the outbreaks at Meerut and Delhi, Montgomery felt that immediate action was necessary. He at once set to work to discover the temper of the Native troops at Mian Mir, and soon ascertained that they were disaffected to the core, and were only waiting to hear from their friends in the south to break into open mutiny. He thoroughly understood the Native character, and realized the danger to the whole province of there being anything in the shape of a serious disturbance ...
— Forty-one years in India - From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief • Frederick Sleigh Roberts
... boil is not lanced, it reaches its full development in seven to ten days with the formation of a central "core" of dead tissue and some pus, which gives to the center of the boil a whitish or yellowish-brown appearance. The boil then breaks down spontaneously in one or more places (usually only one) and discharges some pus, and, with a little pressure, ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) • Various
... sleeve. His character had grown so evenly and silently with the burdens he had borne, working mighty deeds with such little friction, he could not know, nor could the crowd to whom he bowed, how deep into the core of the people's life the ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... pushed and shoved by Rogues and fools enough: the more Good luck mine, I love, am loved by Some few honest to the core. Scan the near high, scout the far low! "But the low come close:" what then? Simpletons? My match is Marlowe; Sciolists? My ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke
... Americans are adding new words to the language. A core has seeds in it. There, see how soft ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas


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