Noun | 1. | core - the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" |
2. | core - a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" Synonyms: core group, nucleus | |
3. | core - the central part of the Earth | |
4. | core - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" Synonyms: heart and soul, inwardness, essence, nitty-gritty, pith, gist, meat, kernel, substance, nub, sum, marrow, center, heart | |
5. | core - a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | |
6. | CORE - an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality Synonyms: Congress of Racial Equality | |
7. | core - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | |
8. | core - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | |
9. | core - a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | |
Verb | 1. | core - remove the core or center from; "core an apple" |
core - 1. Some derived idioms are quite current; "in core", for example, means "in memory" (paged in, as opposed to "on disk", paged out), and both core dump and the "core image" or "core file" produced by one are terms in favour. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store. |