core
1. a small group of indispensable persons or things (Freq. 5)
- five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
• Syn:
nucleus, core group
• Hypernyms:
set
• Hyponyms:
cadre
2. the center of an object (Freq. 4)
- the ball has a titanium core
• Hypernyms:
center, centre, midpoint
• Hyponyms:
corncob, corn cob
3. the central part of the Earth (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
center, centre, midpoint
4. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (Freq. 2)
- the gist of the prosecutor's argument
- the heart and soul of the Republican Party
- the nub of the story
• Syn:
kernel, substance, center, centre, essence,
gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat,
nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
• Derivationally related forms:
summate (for: sum), pithy (for: pith), meaty (for: meat), essential (for: essence), central (for: center)
• Hypernyms:
content, cognitive content, mental object
• Hyponyms:
bare bones, hypostasis, quiddity, haecceity, quintessence, stuff
5. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
sample
6. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
• Syn:
effect, essence, burden, gist
• Hypernyms:
meaning, significance, signification, import
7. (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now superseded by semiconductor memories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
• Syn:
magnetic core
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
torus, toroid
• Part Holonyms:
magnetic core memory, core memory, random-access memory, random access memory, random memory,
RAM, read/write memory
8. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
• Hypernyms:
chamber
• Part Holonyms:
nuclear reactor, reactor
9. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
• Hypernyms:
bar
• Part Holonyms:
magnet
remove the core or center from (Freq. 1)
- core an apple
• Hypernyms:
hollow, hollow out, core out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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