core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.
Senses: examples: text: the core of an apple or quince
glosses: In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
examples: text: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
ref: 2013 March 24, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
glosses: In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
glosses: In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
examples: text: the core of the square
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
The center or inner part of a space or area.
examples: text: the core of a subject
text: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:
glosses: The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
examples: text: Photographs of cottagecore focuses on countrysides or forests.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
coordinate_terms: cavity
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).
examples: text: I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
examples: text: a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
examples: text: In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea.
ref: 1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
qualifier: nuclear physics
examples: text: In a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
examples: text: [the skin of the sheep] is clear from cores and jogs under the jaws.
ref: 1750, William Ellis, Modern Husbandry or Practice of Farming:
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
Synonyms: sense: The most important part of a thing
word: crux
word: gist
Hyponyms: sense: central part of fruit
word: apple core
sense: inner part of a physical thing
word: bifacial core
sense: cylindrical sample
word: drill core
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from core (noun)
word: absorbent core
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word: cable core
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word: central core disease
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word: clustercore
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word: computer core
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word: core belief
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word: coreblowing
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word: core business
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word: core city
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word: core competence
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word: core competency
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word: core constituency
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word: core constituent
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word: core course
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word: core curriculum
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word: core day
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word: core drill
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word: core drilling
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word: core dump
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word: core eudicot
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word: coregasm
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word: corehole
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word: core hole
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word: core hours
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word: core inflation
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word: core lane
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word: coreless
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word: corelet
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word: core-level
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word: core lock
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word: core locked
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word: core loop
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word: core loss
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word: coremaker
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word: coremaking
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word: core memory
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word: coreness
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word: core print
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word: core rope memory
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word: core sample
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word: coreset
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word: coreshine
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word: corestone
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word: core switch
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word: core temperature
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word: core time
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word: core update
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word: coreward
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word: corium
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word: decacore
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word: decore
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word: demon core
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word: downcore
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word: dual-core
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word: dump core
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word: ferrite core
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word: ferrite core memory
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word: foam core
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word: gas core
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word: gas-core
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word: hard-core
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word: hardcore
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word: hexacore
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word: hollow core
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word: hollow-core
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word: horncore
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word: ice core
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word: inner core
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word: intercore
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word: J-core
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word: liquid core
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word: liquid-core
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word: magnetic core memory
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word: manycore
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word: memory core
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word: metropolitan core
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word: microcore
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word: millicore
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word: minicore
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word: molecular core
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word: multicore
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word: multi-core
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word: nanocore
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word: nightcore
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word: noncore
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word: nuclear reactor core
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word: octacore
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word: octocore
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word: open core
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word: outer core
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word: precore
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word: quad-core
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word: quadcore
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word: reactor core
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word: rotten to the core
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word: Singaporean core
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word: softcore
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word: soft-core
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word: solid-core
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word: tortoise core
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word: to the core
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word: traumacore
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word: underconsumption core
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word: unicore
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word: Universal Core Syllable Condition
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word: upcore
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word: water core