core

core is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A body of individuals; an assemblage. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A body of individuals; an assemblage.
2. noun. A miner's underground working time or shift.
3. noun. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
6. noun. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
9. noun. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
10. transitive verb. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
11. transitive verb. To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
12. noun. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
13. noun. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
14. noun. (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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"

15. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: center, centre, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance

16. noun. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

    Synonyms: burden, effect, essence, gist

17. noun. a small group of indispensable persons or things

    "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

    Synonyms: nucleus

18. noun. an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
19. noun. the center of an object

    "the ball has a titanium core"

20. noun. the central part of the Earth
21. noun. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
22. verb. remove the core or center from

    "core an apple"

Synonyms

center, centre, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum, burden, effect, nucleus

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in core:

cero

Common word forms

cored, corer, cores, coring, coreless

Words from these letters

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