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core

/kɔɹ/noun, verb1 syllable

Core means: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.

Synonyms for core21

noun, as in the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

kernel, substance, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty

noun, as in the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

effect, essence, burden, gist

noun, as in a small group of indispensable persons or things

nucleus, core group

noun, as in an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

Congress of Racial Equality

noun, as in (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

magnetic core

What does core mean?11

noun

1

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience“the gist of the prosecutor's argument”

2

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

3

a small group of indispensable persons or things“five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program”

4

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

5

(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories“each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit”

6

the center of an object“the ball has a titanium core”

7

the central part of the Earth

8

a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

9

the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

10

a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

verb

1

remove the core or center from“core an apple”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with core?47

three syllables

anymore
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All 47 rhymes for core, grouped by syllable

Core in a sentence

  • Peel, core and quarter two quarts of tart apples.PublicDomainRecipes
  • Peel the apple, cut it in half, and remove the core.CK
  • Pare, core and quarter tart apples, stew until soft and beat smooth.PublicDomainRecipes
  • And at the very core, he found trust.U2FS
  • Mercury has three main geological layers: a core, a mantle, and a crust.Amastan
  • Peel the apples and cut them in half, cutting out the core.AlanF_US
  • Pare, core and slice two quarts of apples.PublicDomainRecipes
  • Peel the apples and slice them in half, cutting out the core.ddnktr

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of core

as a noun

plural
cores

as a verb

past tense
cored
present participle
coring
third-person singular
cores
past participle
cored