| Noun | 1. | core - the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"midpoint, centre, center - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure corncob - the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | |
| 2. | core - a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" cadre - a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion | |
| 3. | core - the central part of the Earthmidpoint, centre, center - a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | |
| 4. | core - 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"heart and soul, inwardness, essence, nitty-gritty, pith, gist, meat, kernel, substance, nub, sum, marrow, center, heart bare bones - (plural) the most basic facts or elements; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" hypostasis - (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality haecceity, quiddity - the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other quintessence - the purest and most concentrated essence of something stuff - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" | |
| 5. | core - a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drillsample - all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class | |
| 6. | CORE - an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality | |
| 7. | core - the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary workmeaning, signification, import, significance - the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambigtuous" | |
| 8. | core - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes placechamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space nuclear reactor, reactor - (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements | |
| 9. | core - a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coilbar - a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" magnet - (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field magnetic core - (computer science) a doughnut-shaped magnet formerly used to store one bit of information in the main memory of a computer; now superseded by semiconductor memories | |
| Verb | 1. | core - remove the core or center from; "core an apple" | |