Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: core, core_group, magnetic_core

'core'

[core.n.01] as in: a small group of indispensable persons or things

Examples:
five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program

'core'

[core.n.02] as in: the center of an object

Examples:
the ball has a titanium core

'core'

[core.n.03] as in: the central part of the Earth

'core'

[kernel.n.03] as in: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

Examples:
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
the nub of the story

'core'

[core.n.05] as in: a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

'core'

[congress_of_racial_equality.n.01] as in: an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

'core'

[effect.n.04] as in: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

'core'

[core.n.08] as in: (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

Examples:
each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit

'core'

[core.n.09] as in: the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

'core'

[core.n.10] as in: a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

'core'

[core.v.01] as in: remove the core or center from

Examples:
core an apple

Origins

					core (English)
└── core (Middle English (1100-1500))