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say it: kawr
core is a noun and verb meaning "a small group of indispensable persons or things". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɹ/ — kawr. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a small group of indispensable persons or things
“five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program”
the central part of the Earth
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”
Canada · United Kingdom
a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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”
computer science
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for core come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.