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English to English noun
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a small group of indispensable persons or things |  | Example: five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
source: wordnet30
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the center of an object | | Example: the ball has a titanium core
source: wordnet30
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the central part of the Earth | | source: wordnet30
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | | Example: the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
the nub of the story
source: wordnet30
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a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | | source: wordnet30
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an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality | | source: wordnet30
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the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | | source: wordnet30
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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | | Example: each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit
source: wordnet30
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the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | | source: wordnet30
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a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | | source: wordnet30
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A body of individuals; an assemblage. | | source: webster1913
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A miner's underground working time or shift. | | source: webster1913
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A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound. | | source: webster1913 verb
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remove the core or center from | | Example: core an apple
source: wordnet30
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To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple. | | source: webster1913
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