Unscramble core

Definition of core

noun:

• a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program". Synonyms: core group, nucleus.
• the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core".
• the central part of the Earth.
• 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". Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum.
• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.
• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality. Synonyms: CORE, Congress of Racial Equality.
• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist.
• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit". Synonyms: magnetic core.
• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.
• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.

verb:

• remove the core or center from; "core an apple".

Related words

cadre, corncob, haecceity, hypostasis, quiddity, quintessence, stuff.

Words nearby

bore, care, cere, chore, code, coke, cole, come, cone, cope, cora, cord, corer, cork, corm, corn, corp, corse, cote, coue, cove, crore, cure, fore, gore, kore, lore, more, ore, pore, score, sore, tore, yore.

Rhymes with

abhor, abor, adore, anymore, ashore, before, before, boar, boer, bohr, bore, chore, corps, decor, deplore, dior, door, drawer, explore, floor.