core

Nouns

• (n) a small group of indispensable persons or things
  • five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
  core group, nucleus,
• (n) the center of an object
  • the ball has a titanium core
• (n) the central part of the Earth
• (n) 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, gist, pith, substance, kernel, meat, nub, sum, center, heart, marrow, centre,
• (n) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
• (n) an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality Congress of Racial Equality,
• (n) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work gist, burden, essence, effect,
• (n) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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,
• (n) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
• (n) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

Verbs

• (v) remove the core or center from
  • core an apple

Synonyms

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