Core - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (syn: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum)
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work (syn: burden, effect, essence, gist)
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
verb
Extra examples
Remove the cores, and bake the apples for 40 minutes.
The core of the book focuses on the period between 1660 and 1857.
Debt is at the core of the problem.
The business needs a new core of trained administrators.
The core regions benefited the most from the capitalist world economy.
She dropped the apple core into the trash can.
I knew it was true in the core of my being.
...he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood...
You can see the hard core of the group on the photo.
He singled out technology as the core of the problem.
When I heard the news, I was shaken to the core.
That woman is rotten to the core!
He was a bureaucrat to the core.
Schools have to deliver the core skills.
The core business of airlines is flying people and cargo from place to place.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: core
he/she/it: cores
present participle: coring
past tense: cored
past participle: cored
singular: core
plural: cores
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