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Core

noun

1.

A small group of indispensable persons or things. Synonyms: core group, nucleus.

2.

The center of an object.

3.

The central part of the Earth.

4.

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum. "The heart and soul of the Republican Party" , "The nub of the story"

5.

A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.

6.

An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality. Synonym: Congress of Racial Equality.

7.

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist.

8.

(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.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

9.

The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.

10.

A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.

verb

(past & past part. cord; pres. part. coring)

1.

Remove the core or center from.

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... magistrates or the townships and their officers enforced? In the States of New England the legislative authority embraces more subjects than it does in France; the legislator penetrates to the very core of the administration; the law descends to the most minute details; the same enactment prescribes the principle and the method of its application, and thus imposes a multitude of strict and rigorously defined obligations on the secondary functionaries of the State. The consequence of this ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

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— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith

... he saw a look in the lad's face that he had never seen there before, and in spite of the pain of the situation, he felt a thrill of satisfaction running through his breast at the thought that, young as his nephew was, he was English to the core. ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... incipient heresy alarmed some of the more timid spirits; whilst others sought for truth and light as it was to be found amongst their recognized preachers and teachers, and were often surprised at the depth of spirituality and earnestness which they found in men who were stanch to the core to the traditions of the church, and held in abhorrence the very name and thought ...

— For the Faith • Evelyn Everett-Green

... played in France and Germany. The Italians, with their quick, generous appreciation, and their demonstrative manner of showing admiration, had given him a reception of such unreserved approval as warmed his artistic ambition to the very core. Mme. Malibran, though annoyed at the mischance which glorified another at the expense of De Beriot, was too just and amiable not to express her hearty congratulations to the young artist, and De Beriot himself, when he was shortly afterward introduced to Ole Bull, treated him with most brotherly ...

— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris

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