core
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor).
Inflected forms:
form: cores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Forming the most important or essential part.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
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gloss: Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture.
We had a segmentation strategy, where the small, independent core skate shops — the three hundred boutiques around the country who really created us — had a certain product line that was exclusive to them. […] We said to the core shops, you don't have to compete with the malls.
[…] which provoked resistance among the 'core' snowboarders.
gloss: To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut or drill through the core of (something).
pos: verb
examples: But the other thing to take into account is, when you look at the Katahdin and the Polyphemus, they both have their boiler plants pretty much amidships or slightly forward of amidships, which means that, in the event of a heat-lance strike on the boiler room, not only is that gonna core through the ship right at the center of mass, which is obviously bad for its continued structural stability, but the boilers going up is gonna incinerate pretty much anybody on the bridge, which is gonna leave it completely out of control, and is probably gonna break the ship clean in half right there and then, none of which really speaks to the ship's being able to continue onwards with enough momentum to take down a Martian tripod.
gloss: To extract a sample with a drill.
pos: verb
Derived words: corer
uncore
uncored
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