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/kɔː/
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/kɔɹ/
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[kʰo̞ɹ]
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/ko(ː)ɹ/
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/koə/
Noun
In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
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the core of an apple or quince
In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things. The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
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Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things. The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
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In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things. The center or inner part of a space or area.
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the core of the square
The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
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the core of a subject
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Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English.
The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence. A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it. The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
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The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence. A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it. The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
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The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence. A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
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Photographs of cottagecore focuses on countrysides or forests.
particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
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particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
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I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.
particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
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a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
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In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea.
particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
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In a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.
particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
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particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function: A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
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Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
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Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
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Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
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[the skin of the sheep] is clear from cores and jogs under the jaws.
Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
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Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
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Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above. An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
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Adjective
Forming the most important or essential part.
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Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.
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Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
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Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
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Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture.
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We had a segmentation strategy, where the small, independent core skate shops — the three hundred boutiques around the country who really created us — had a certain product line that was exclusive to them. […] We said to the core shops, you don't have to compete with the malls.
[…] which provoked resistance among the 'core' snowboarders.
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To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
To cut or drill through the core of (something).
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But the other thing to take into account is, when you look at the Katahdin and the Polyphemus, they both have their boiler plants pretty much amidships or slightly forward of amidships, which means that, in the event of a heat-lance strike on the boiler room, not only is that gonna core through the ship right at the center of mass, which is obviously bad for its continued structural stability, but the boilers going up is gonna incinerate pretty much anybody on the bridge, which is gonna leave it completely out of control, and is probably gonna break the ship clean in half right there and then, none of which really speaks to the ship's being able to continue onwards with enough momentum to take down a Martian tripod.
To extract a sample with a drill.
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A body of individuals; an assemblage.
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He was in a core of people.
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A miner's underground working time or shift.
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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.
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An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
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Some of the most popular "cores" at the moment—according to the Wiki's "trending pages" list—are cottage and goblin and trauma and angel. If the last one sounds appealing, you can participate by eating more meringues and buying a pet dove.
The rise of micro-cores coincides with the rise of hyper-specific internet aesthetics. There's even an Aesthetics Wiki that chronicles all the possible cores online, including, but not limited to, bubblegumbitchcore, cottagecore, and fairycore.
It's more than okay to let a microtrend be just that. Naming it as a "core" turns the clothing into a social media movement, and more often than not, the title is an overcomplication for rather basic color choices or fabric selections.
The aesthetic makes a convincing case for finding joy in fashion and experimenting with personal style rather than chasing every new 'core' that comes along. It encourages real excitement about getting creative with the clothes you already have in your wardrobe and therein lies the thrill of it.
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a small group of indispensable persons or things
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five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
the center of an object
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the ball has a titanium core
the central part of the Earth
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
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the nub of the story
a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
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the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
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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
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each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
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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
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remove the core or center from
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core an apple