What does CORE mean?

Definitions for CORE
kɔr, koʊrcore

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. core, nucleus, core groupnoun

    a small group of indispensable persons or things

    "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

  2. corenoun

    the center of an object

    "the ball has a titanium core"

  3. corenoun

    the central part of the Earth

  4. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

    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"

  5. corenoun

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

  6. Congress of Racial Equality, COREnoun

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

  7. effect, essence, burden, core, gistnoun

    the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

  8. core, magnetic corenoun

    (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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

  9. corenoun

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

  10. coreverb

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

  11. coreverb

    remove the core or center from

    "core an apple"

GCIDE

  1. Corenoun

    (mining) a sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.

  2. Corenoun

    (Computers) The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device. The term was applied originally to the main memory, consisting of small ferromagnetic rings, that were used to store data in older computers, where each ring representing one bit of information by virtue of its state of magnetization. They were superseded by electronic data storage devices.

  3. Corenoun

    (Geol.) the central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.

  4. Corenoun

    (Engineering) the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.

  5. Corenoun

    The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; -- also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.

  6. Corenoun

    (Elec.) A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound. The presence of the iron intensifies the magnetic field created by a a current passing through the windings.

  7. Coreverb

    To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device. See core.

Wiktionary

  1. corenoun

    A body of individuals; an assemblage.

  2. corenoun

    A miner's underground working time or shift.

  3. corenoun

    A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

  4. corenoun

    The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

  5. corenoun

    The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.

  6. corenoun

    The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.

  7. corenoun

    The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.

  8. corenoun

    The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

  9. corenoun

    The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

  10. coreverb

    To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

  11. coreverb

    To extract a sample with a drill.

  12. corenoun

    magnetic memory.

  13. corenoun

    An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one

  14. corenoun

    A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. Said to be an acronym for Cash On REturn, but that may be a backronym.

  15. Etymology: From core, kore, coor, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from cuer, from cor; or from cors, from corpus. See also heart, corpse.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. COREnoun

    Etymology: cœur, French; cor, Latin.

    Give me that man
    That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him
    In my heart’s core; ay, in my heart of heart. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

    In the core of the square she raised a tower of a furlong high. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

    Dig out the cores below the surface. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

    They wasteful eat,
    Through buds and bark, into the blacken’d core. James Thomson.

    It is reported that trees, watered perpetually with warm water, will make a fruit with little or no core or stone. Francis Bacon.

    Launce the sore,
    And cut the head; for, ’till the core be found,
    The secret vice is fed, and gathers ground. John Dryden, Virgil.

    He was more doubtful of the raising of forces to resist the rebels, than of the resistance itself; for that he was in a core of people whose affections he suspected. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

ChatGPT

  1. core

    The core usually refers to the central, innermost, or most essential part of something. It could mean the central section of a planet or star, the main or most important element of a subject or topic, or a group of people who are most committed to a particular activity or organization. The specific definition can vary depending on the context in which it is used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Corenoun

    a body of individuals; an assemblage

  2. Corenoun

    a miner's underground working time or shift

  3. Corenoun

    a Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer

  4. Corenoun

    the heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince

  5. Corenoun

    the center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square

  6. Corenoun

    the most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject

  7. Corenoun

    the prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern

  8. Corenoun

    a disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver

  9. Corenoun

    the bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals

  10. Coreverb

    to take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple

  11. Coreverb

    to form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting

  12. Etymology: [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. cur, fr. L. cor heart. See Heart.]

Wikidata

  1. Core

    Core is the debut album by the American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on September 29, 1992 through Atlantic Records. The album, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified 8x platinum by the RIAA on December 18, 2001, making it the band's best-selling album.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Core

    kōr, n. the heart: the inner part of anything, esp. of fruit.—v.t. to take out the core of fruit.—adjs. Cored, having the core removed; Core′less, without core: pithless: hollow.—n. Cor′er, an instrument for removing the core. [Ety. dub.; perh. conn. with L. cor, the heart.]

  2. Core

    kōr, n. a number of people. [See Corps.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. core

    Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; in core, for example, means ‘in memory’ (as opposed to ‘on disk’), and both core dump and the core image or core file produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Core

    (a) The conductor or conductors of an electric cable. (See Cable Core.) (b) The iron mass, generally central in an electro-magnet or armature, around which the wire is coiled. It acts by its high permeance to concentrate or multiply the lines of force, thus maintaining a more intense field. (See Armature--Magnet, Electro--Magnet, Field--Core, Laminated). In converters or transformers (See Converter) it often surrounds the wire coils.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. core

    When cannon are cast hollow, after the plan of Rodman, a core is used to make the bore. It consists of a hollow cast-iron pipe, fluted on the outside, called the core-barrel. This is wrapped with rope and the molding sand is plastered over the rope. A water-pipe entering the core-barrel and reaching nearly to the bottom, and another leaving it near the top, are used to maintain a circulation of water through it, thus cooling the casting from the interior.

Editors Contribution

  1. core

    The middle of an item.

    The core of the apple is sometimes taken out before you cook.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CORE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Core is ranked #8631 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Core surname appeared 3,810 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Core.

    67.8% or 2,586 total occurrences were White.
    22.7% or 865 total occurrences were Black.
    5.7% or 219 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 89 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 30 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 21 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'CORE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2954

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'CORE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4461

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'CORE' in Nouns Frequency: #1217

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of CORE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of CORE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of CORE in a Sentence

  1. Rima Qureshi:

    The targeted areas all have strong links to the areas that are core to the company, and high degree of services, software and recurrent revenues.

  2. Chief Executive Joe Kaeser:

    Our maximum priority is to stabilize a company which is sound and strong in its core. Many companies dream of being in situation Siemens is in.

  3. Aldemir Bendine:

    The increase in oil production is the company's core, it is what brings in results.

  4. Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Kukies:

    The question that I have now, and this really goes to the core: must the EU - in light of the stalemate of tax harmonization - give up its unanimity principle in tax policy, at least in some areas.

  5. Henry Miller:

    Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

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