core /kɔr/
1. a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
synset: core, nucleus, core_group
2. the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
synset: core
3. the central part of the Earth
synset: core
4. 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"
synset: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart_and_soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
5. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
synset: core
6. an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
synset: Congress_of_Racial_Equality, CORE
7. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
synset: effect, essence, burden, core, gist
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 (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"
synset: core, magnetic_core
9. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
synset: core
10. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
synset: core
1. remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
synset: core
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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