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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

Health is the core of human development.
Gro H. Brundtland

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

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.
Shawn Ashmore

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
Anna Quindlen

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Potter Stewart

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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