core
Forms
- Plural
- cores
- present (v1)
- core
- past (v2)
- cored
- past participle (v3)
- cored
- present participle
- coring
- 3rd person singular
- cores
Definitions
1.In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
- I don't eat the core of an apple.
2.The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- Photographs of cottagecore focuses on countrysides or forests.
- 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.
3.particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
- In a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.
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.
- I don't eat the core of an apple.
1.Forming the most important or essential part.
- Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.
- 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.
2.Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
- 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.
1.To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
2.To cut or drill through the core of (something).
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1754
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.