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English noun: core | |||
| 1. | core (group) a small group of indispensable persons or things | ||
| Samples | Five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program. | ||
| Synonyms | core group, nucleus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cadre | ||
| 2. | core (location) the center of an object | ||
| Samples | The ball has a titanium core. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | center, centre, midpoint | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | corn cob, corncob | ||
| 3. | core (object) the central part of the Earth | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | center, centre, midpoint | ||
| 4. | core (cognition) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | ||
| Samples | The gist of the prosecutor's argument. The heart and soul of the Republican Party. The nub of the story. | ||
| Synonyms | center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bare bones, haecceity, hypostasis, quiddity, quintessence, stuff | ||
| 5. | core (object) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sample | ||
| 6. | CORE (group) an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality | ||
| Synonyms | Congress of Racial Equality | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | NGO, nongovernmental organization | ||
| 7. | core (communication) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | ||
| Synonyms | burden, effect, essence, gist | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | import, meaning, significance, signification | ||
| 8. | core (artifact) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | ||
| Samples | Each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit. | ||
| Synonyms | magnetic core | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | toroid, torus | ||
| Part meronym | core memory, magnetic core memory, RAM, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 9. | core (artifact) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chamber | ||
| Part meronym | nuclear reactor, reactor | ||
| 10. | core (artifact) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bar | ||
| Part meronym | magnet | ||
English verb: core | |||
| 1. | core (contact) remove the core or center from | ||
| Samples | Core an apple. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | core out, hollow, hollow out | ||
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