» core
Noun (10 meanings)
1. a small group of indispensable persons or things.
Example:
- “five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program”
2. the center of an object.
Example:
- “the ball has a titanium core”
3. the central part of the Earth.
4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.
kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
Examples:
- “the gist of the prosecutor's argument”,
- “the heart and soul of the Republican Party”,
- “the nub of the story”
core is a type of:
- content, cognitive content, mental object (noun) - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
types of core:
- bare bones (noun) - (plural) the most basic facts or elements
- hypostasis (noun) - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
- quiddity, haecceity (noun) - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other
- quintessence (noun) - the purest and most concentrated essence of something
- stuff (noun) - a critically important or characteristic component
core is derivationally related to:
- all-important, all important, crucial, essential, of the essence (adjective) - of the greatest importance
- cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal (adjective) - serving as an essential component
- meaty, substantive (adjective) - being on topic and prompting thought
- pithy, sententious (adjective) -
- to summate (verb) - form or constitute a cumulative effect
5. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.
core is a type of:
- sample (noun) - all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class
6. an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality.
core is a type of:
- nongovernmental organization, NGO (noun) - an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
core is a type of:
- meaning, significance, signification, import (noun) - the message that is intended or expressed or signified
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 (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.
Example:
- “each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit”
core is a type of:
- torus, toroid (noun) - a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
core is a part of:
- magnetic core memory, core memory (noun) - (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores
- random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory (noun) - the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
- computer science, computing (noun) - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
9. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.
core is a type of:
- chamber (noun) - a natural or artificial enclosed space
core is a part of:
- nuclear reactor, reactor (noun) - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements
10. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.
Verb (1 meaning)
1. remove the core or center from.
to core
Example:
- “core an apple”
to core is a way to:
- to hollow, hollow out, core out (verb) - remove the interior of
to core is derivationally related to:
- core (noun) - the center of an object