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English Definitions
core
N
a small group of indispensable persons or things
core
N
the center of an object
core
N
the central part of the Earth
core
N
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
core
N
a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
N
an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
core
N
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
core
N
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
core
N
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
core
N
a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
core
V
remove the core or center from
N
a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill; allows core samples to be taken
core drill
N
a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole
N
(computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU; usually used for debugging
N
a small group of indispensable persons or things
core memory
N
(computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories
N
the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent
related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction
N
soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
N
type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes
N
important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
N
found in the Great Lakes and north to Alaska
N
squash bugs and leaf-footed bugs
coreligionist
N
someone having the same religion as another person
N
Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713)
N
any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
N
large treelike shrub having feathery leaves and clusters of large yellow flower heads; coastal southern California
N
stout herb with flowers one to a stalk; ornamental developed from a Mexican wildflower
N
North American annual widely cultivated for its yellow flowers with purple-red to brownish centers; in some classifications placed in a subgenus Calliopsis
corer
N
a device for removing the core from apples
N
the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding
English Definitions from WordNet 3.0
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