Core

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  • noun. The central or innermost part.
  • noun. The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.
  • noun. The basic or most important part; the crucial element or essence: synonym: substance.
  • noun. A set of subjects or courses that make up a required portion of a curriculum.
  • noun. A soft iron rod in a coil or transformer that provides a path for and intensifies the magnetic field produced by the windings.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A memory, especially one consisting of a series of tiny doughnut-shaped masses of magnetic material.
  • noun. One of the magnetic doughnut-shaped masses that make up such a memory.
  • noun. The central portion of the earth below the mantle, beginning at a depth of about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) and probably consisting of iron and nickel. It is made up of a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
  • noun. A mass of dry sand placed within a mold to provide openings or shape to a casting.
  • noun. A reactor core.
  • noun. A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the center of a mass by drilling or cutting.
  • noun. The base or innermost part, such as soft or inferior wood, surrounded by an outer part or covering, such as veneer wood.
  • noun. A stone from which one or more flakes have been removed, serving as a source for such flakes or as a tool itself.
  • noun. The muscles in the trunk of the human body, including those of the abdomen and chest, that stabilize the spine, pelvis, and shoulders.
  • transitive verb. To remove the core or innermost part from.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To remove (a cylindrical sample) from something, such as a glacier.
  • transitive verb. To remove a cylindrical sample from (a glacier or soil layer, for example).
  • transitive verb. To remove small plugs of sod from (turf) in order to aerate it.
  • transitive verb. To form or build with a base or innermost part consisting of a different substance from that of the covering or outer part.
  • adjective. Of basic importance; essential.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the muscles of the trunk of the human body.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In mining, the number of hours, generally from six to eight, during which each party of miners works before being relieved. The miner's day is thus usually divided into three or four cores or shifts.
  • noun. A body.
  • noun. A body of persons; a party; a crew; a corps.
  • noun. Chosen; directed.
  • To make, mold, or cast on a core.
  • To remove the core of, as of an apple or other fruit.
  • To roll in salt and prepare for drying: applied to herrings.
  • noun. The heart or innermost part of anything; hence, the nucleus or central or most essential part, literally or figuratively: as, the core of a question.
  • noun. Specifically— The central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds or kernels: as, the core of an apple or a quince.
  • noun. In architecture, the inner part or filling of a wall or column.
  • noun. In medicine, the fibrous innermost part of a boil.
  • noun. In molding, the internal mold of a casting, which fills the space intended to be left hollow.
  • noun. In telegraphy, the central cord of insulated conducting wires in a submarine or subterranean cable.
  • noun. The iron nucleus of an electromagnet.
  • noun. In rope-making, a central strand around which other strands are twisted, as in a wire rope; or a cable.
  • noun. In hydraulic engineering, an impervious wall or structure, as of concrete, in an embankment or dike of porous material, to prevent the passage of water by percolation.
  • noun. The cylindrical piece of rock obtained in boring by means of the diamond drill or any other boring-machine which makes an annular cut. Also called carrot.
  • noun. The bony central part of the horn of a ruminant; a horn-core, or process of the frontal bone.
  • noun. In prehistoric archæol., a piece of flint, obsidian, or similar material, from which knives and other stone implements have been chipped.
  • noun. The center or innermost part of any open space.
  • noun. A disorder in sheep caused by worms in the liver.
  • noun. An internal induration in the udder of a cow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
  • noun. A body of individuals; an assemblage.
  • noun. A miner's underground working time or shift.
  • transitive verb. To take out the core or inward parts of.
  • transitive verb. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
  • Word Usage
    "By avoiding the term "core inflation," he could confuse the public about how the central bank thinks about inflation and responds to it, said Mr. Meyer of Macroeconomic Advisers."
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    NGO  bar  center  centre  chamber  
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    Boer  Bohr  C4  Dior  Dore  
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    basic  block  center  circuit  coil  
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    core{8}  
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    cored  cores  coring