core
Meanings
- In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
- The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
- particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
- The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- Forming the most important or essential part.
- Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
- To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- To cut or drill through the core of (something).
- To extract a sample with a drill.
- A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
- A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
- Acronym of corporate responsibility.
- Acronym of Congress of Racial Equality.
- Acronym of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
- Acronym of Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
- Acronym of Council on Rehabilitation Education.
- Acronym of Computing Research and Education Association.
- The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the wife of Hades.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- A surname.
- A neighbourhood of San Diego, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
- Obsolete form of Korah.
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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. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor).