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core


core - noun

  • a small group of indispensable persons or things
  • the center of an object
  • the central part of the Earth
  • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • 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
  • the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
  • (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
  • 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

    • core - verb

    • remove the core or center from

    core - thesaurus

    burden   center American English spelling   centre British English spelling   effect   essence   gist   heart   inwardness   kernel   marrow   meat   nub   nucleus   pith   substance   sum  


    View spelling list -ore words and learn about the word core in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 14. Spelling choices for /or/ sound: or, ore, au, aw + war.

    Scrabble score for core

    c is 3 o is 1 r is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 6

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