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UK
/kˈɔː/
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[ US /ˈkɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɔɹ/ ]
NOUN
- the central part of the Earth
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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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 -
the center of an object
the ball has a titanium core -
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the nub of the story
the heart and soul of the Republican Party - a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
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a small group of indispensable persons or things
five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
VERB
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remove the core or center from
core an apple
How To Use core In A Sentence
- When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
- But Sexton found Nicks for an easy 31-yard score on fourth down with 4: 11 left to seal it, and Nicks set the receiving record with a 22-yard catch a little later from T.J. Yates, making his first appearance in relief from a broken ankle suffered in September against Virginia Tech. Newspaper Home Delivery - Subscribe Today USATODAY.com
- If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
- The radiant beauty of the score, and the warm tenderness at the heart of it, are very moving.
- The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
- In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
- The unforested hills and plateaus of the Dissected Loess Uplands ecoregion are cut by the canyons of Ecoregion 10l and are disjunct. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
- Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
- This came after scores of pro-Uribe legislators and other officials were indicted on conspiracy charges involving so-called demobilized paramilitaries. Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.