Core

/kɔː/ · noun

Meaning

In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things..

Definitions by Sense

1. In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
2. The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
3. particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
4. Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the general sense above.
5. Forming the most important or essential part.
6. (board sports) Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
7. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
8. To cut or drill through the core of (something).

Example Sentences

the core of a subject

Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.

General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English.

Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

These lists cover important vocabulary from eight core subjects that students need to master during secondary education: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics.

Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture.

We had a segmentation strategy, where the small, independent core skate shops — the three hundred boutiques around the country who really created us — had a certain product line that was exclusive to them. […] We said to the core shops, you don't have to compete with the malls.

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• cores
• coring
• cored

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