Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- 2noun
A miner's underground working time or shift.
- 3noun
A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
- 6noun
The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
- 9noun
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- 10transitive verb
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
- 11transitive verb
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
- 12noun
a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- 13noun
the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- 14noun
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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"
- 15noun
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"
- 16noun
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- 17noun
a small group of indispensable persons or things
"five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
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- 18noun
an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
- 19noun
the center of an object
"the ball has a titanium core"
- 20noun
the central part of the Earth
- 21noun
a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- 22verb
remove the core or center from
"core an apple"
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