Definition of Core

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Definition of Core

Core

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

A miner's underground working time or shift.

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.

The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.

The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound.

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Core Quotations

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.
Sarah Silverman

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
bell hooks

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Mortimer Adler

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
Bruce Springsteen

The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender

Core Translations

core in Afrikaans is pit
core in Dutch is kern, pit
core in Finnish is ydin
core in French is noyau
core in German is Magnetkern, Innenteil, Kern
core in Hungarian is magtok, mag, vminek a belseje, vminek a magja
core in Italian is nucleare
core in Norwegian is kjerne
core in Swedish is ledare

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