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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
core
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a core/common curriculum (=the subjects that everyone must study because they are considered very important)
▪ There has been a lot of debate on the content of the core curriculum.
core an apple (=remove the middle part containing the seeds)
▪ Core the apples and cut into quarters.
hard core
▪ the hard core of the Communist party
sb’s core values (=most basic values)
▪ The party needs to express its core values clearly.
the core/roots/whole of sb’s being
▪ The whole of her being had been taken over by a desire to return to her homeland.
the Earth’s core (=central part)
▪ The Earth’s inner core is almost entirely composed of iron.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ The suggestion is that the central core area should be absolutely sacrosanct with slightly less stringent restrictions as you spread outward.
▪ This question of a more developed central core among the small towns is an important one which requires closer attention.
▪ A central core of keen and well-informed supporters whose enthusiasm, knowledge and confidence will draw new members like a magnet.
▪ There was within him, she believed, a central core of steadiness that would save him from courting disaster.
▪ The problem is solved if the central core is very thin so that there is no room for reflection.
▪ Tendons which intercept the central core are anchored at the slab / core intersection.
▪ A central core along the côte of accumulated loess and colluvial weathered deposits of calcareous, clayey-silt and iron-bearing flinty pebbles.
▪ Finally, there would remain a central core containing the reactor building itself.
hard
▪ The hard-core idea is a dangerous one.
▪ There are not, however, too many hard core pumpernickel types left, certainly not enough to support small bakeries.
▪ As a result the Eurovision Song Contest delays a hard core of trivia-obsessed nutcases for four hours each year.
▪ I believed the drill instructor was hard core, nose to the grindstone, always screaming and shouting.
▪ The other kind of move that is ruled out is one that violates the hard core, as we have already mentioned.
▪ The plotters represented the hard core of the right wing.
▪ Order is maintained by the inviolability of the hard core of a programme and by the positive heuristic that accompanies it.
▪ The hard core was protected by changing the theory underlying the observation language, so that telescopic data replaced naked-eye observations, for instance.
inner
▪ Venus could lack such an inner core because of the lower central pressures corresponding to its lower gravity.
▪ Now, scientists say the inner core rotates slightly faster than the rest of Earth.
▪ These are also part of my inner core.
▪ At the center of one of these glyphs were the words inner core spiritual values.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ In 1936, she proposed that the earth had an inner core as well as an outer core.
▪ In the majority of his work, he displays a sympathy which reaches to the inner core of his subject.
▪ The planet had a solid inner core and a liquid outer core, both metallic.
small
▪ The Moon may have a small iron core.
▪ Early into the strike, the university backed down, but a small core of radical students continued to occupy the campus.
▪ If you are aiming almost for pure comedy, then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense.
urban
▪ However, virtually all were designed at least partially to house people and jobs from the older urban cores.
▪ These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier.
▪ But there was no abrupt re-orientation of government spending towards the urban cores from 1977 to 1979.
▪ Why have so many left the older urban cores?
▪ It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them.
▪ These functions, as mentioned earlier, are found increasingly beyond the urban cores.
very
▪ Recruitment and selection are concerned with the very core of the company - ie using the company's personnel.
▪ The question which feminists are raising then strikes at the very core of Christology.
▪ So in my view design is absolutely fundamental and at the very core of most businesses.
▪ At first sight the very core of party support appeared to be rotten.
▪ The animal rights movement threatens the very core of what the Public Health Service is all about ....
▪ The focus of his gaze has a startlingly piercing quality; an intensity that seems to strike at your very core.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ In all its acquisitions, Guinness has sought business opportunities that have enhanced and strengthened its core activities.
▪ It is good for managers who can concentrate on their core activities, looking for the best deal for their customers.
▪ This is in accordance with the Council's long standing policy to maintain reserves broadly equivalent to three months' core activity expenditure.
▪ Biostratigraphic research provides essential stratigraphic support for many core activities both onshore and offshore.
area
▪ The suggestion is that the central core area should be absolutely sacrosanct with slightly less stringent restrictions as you spread outward.
▪ At the same time, 3Com has its own employees in jobs in the core areas of its business.
▪ The group focused heavily on its three core areas, and disposed of several operations which fell outside its strategy.
▪ It is also seeking an expansion of pinewoods in the core areas of Deeside, Strathspey and the River Beauly catchment.
▪ In summary, the Plan identifies three core areas for the majority of land for new housing and businesses.
▪ But in the core areas of the old system the problems were much less tractable.
belief
▪ In healthy organizations, this core belief sys-tem serves as a source of guidance.
▪ All organizations have some sort of core belief system.
▪ If both core beliefs and the actions they inspire are healthy, the organization will ultimately succeed in achieving its long-term goals.
▪ Banished from the official organizational history, the memory of these unpleasant side effects lingers in the form of unhealthy core beliefs.
▪ Above all, it requires the steady cultivation of healthy core beliefs that will shore up the organization when setbacks occur.
▪ Evaluative core beliefs, however, are often highly subjective.
▪ They dwell instead on invalid core beliefs and the kinds of mythical fear that such beliefs nearly always inspire.
▪ All individuals with sophisticated belief systems do not necessarily share the same core beliefs.
business
▪ Our strategy is to focus all our resources on the two core businesses of spirits and beers.
▪ Additionally, entire segments of some companies will be eliminated as companies identify and refocus on their core business.
▪ Astra makes more sense as a public company than the Salim Group, mainly because its core businesses are obvious and integrated.
▪ Will it be able to manage an acquisition outside its core business -- one in no need of fixing?
▪ During the recession some larger companies recognised a need to dispose of peripheral interests and apply the proceeds to their core businesses.
▪ Meeting customer needs' Unlike many of our competitors, the provision of credit information has always been our core business.
▪ None was big enough to become the core business of the company, Ousley says.
▪ The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.
course
▪ In addition to the core course in Theory and Methods of Literary Study, students would normally select two one-term options.
▪ It is now programmed so that the core course can be done by pupils working in pairs.
▪ Students follow one of four programmes, consisting of core courses with full and half courses.
curriculum
▪ New elements will ease their way into the core curriculum.
▪ But it is not a core curriculum like that being touted by test-and-measure statehouse reformers.
▪ Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
▪ Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
▪ This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
▪ But some professors say library purchases have been cut and they have not been given the promised resources for the core curriculum.
▪ And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
▪ In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
group
▪ Added to the Right-On readers, they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers.
▪ Yet this refusal to intervene virtually guarantees that core group behavior will continue to be encouraged by profit-minded entrepreneurs.
▪ The core group, moreover, would clearly need close co-ordination of fiscal and macroeconomic policies.
▪ Not all arguments against core group intervention are based on the fear of unintended consequences.
▪ Administration can be done by double-entry book-keeping, but is quicker and cheaper if the core group has access to a computer.
▪ Even the core group of 30 who are paid professionals earn salaries unlikely to inspire letters to the editor.
▪ One possible cause for increased symptom scores in the core group was that they were all involved in seeking compensation.
▪ So in many ways misinterpreting the concept of core groups can be just as dangerous as ignoring their reality.
reactor
▪ To protect power station workers from this invisible threat the reactor core has to be encased behind many metres of thick concrete.
▪ Radioactivity is induced in the metallic containment vessel that surrounds a reactor core by neutrons that escape from the core.
▪ During the last 30 years there have been 12 accidents around the world that have caused serious damage to a reactor core.
▪ The accident, which occurred on August 13, did not involve the release of radiation or damage to the reactor core.
▪ Leaks in primary circuits distributing heat from the reactor core would be uncontrollable, leading to a core meltdown.
▪ The reactor core erupted in a gigantic explosion, spewing enormous amounts of heat and disintegrated radioactive fuel into the atmosphere.
skill
▪ In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
▪ They had a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, and other core skills.
▪ In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
▪ This year, we've not had time to integrate teaching and assessment of core skills into vocational areas.
▪ Learning activities have been designed to develop core skills such as analysing sources, recording evidence, and understanding chronology.
▪ Next year, we will cover all of the core skills in two option columns, rather than three.
▪ The schools would deliver core skills modules in the morning, and the college would deliver the other modules.
▪ The core skill is the identifying and reducing these obstacles, freeing the group to reach its potential.
subject
▪ The last two subjects are what they call core subjects which you have to take.
▪ The six core subjects are: Constitutional and Administrative Law.
unit
▪ Students take a series of core units in their second and third years.
▪ The core units focus on the relationship between literature and its background.
▪ However there are many links with core units.
▪ Inscriptions on stone could link with the core unit on Roman Britain.
▪ Students take three compulsory core units and four optional units in each academic year.
▪ Orc Boar Boyz are the most expensive choice for a core unit.
value
▪ A little deeper thinking raises the question of why organization participants should accept such core values.
▪ Despite the emphasis on consistency among beliefs, individuals in the elite can support core values that are in conflict.
▪ Modernity's core value is freedom, especially the freedom to fashion one's identity and one's life as one will.
▪ You can search for work that is closer to your core values and beliefs.
■ VERB
form
▪ It was they who formed the core of the strikers, persuading and supporting other weaker women.
▪ Iron might not have melted and sunk to form the liquid core, and the magnetic field would never have developed.
▪ Individual issues develop in three parts which form the core of the course.
▪ The assumptions of each theoretical position form the core around which each theory is constructed.
▪ The first type forms a core in the shape of a cube.
▪ The melting and sinking of iron to form a liquid core at the center was therefore an event of catastrophic proportions.
▪ The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained, expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
▪ In effect, IDUs form the critical core group that sustains infection in the heterosexual population.
remain
▪ Of course there remains a core of consistency which would normally outweigh by far the fluctuations.
▪ Finally, there would remain a central core containing the reactor building itself.
shake
▪ Sometimes foundations are shaken to the core by the premature death or prolonged absence of the main attachment figure.
▪ Lucien was shaken to the core by all this rude conduct.
▪ His wife, Susan, sustained a permanent nerve pinch in her back, and Ellison was shaken to his core.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rotten to the core
▪ Her very moral fiber was rotten to the core.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ MTV's core audience is 18- to 24-year-olds.
▪ Only the core of the volcano remained.
▪ Operator errors allowed the radioactive core to overheat.
▪ She had the ability to cut through to the core of a problem.
▪ The core of the play's appeal is that the good guys win in the end.
▪ The Earth has a solid inner core 2500 km in diameter.
▪ The profit motive is at the core of the capitalist system.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the core of the academic studies is a basic rule: Investors believe in the status quo.
▪ But for that to happen it must appeal beyond its core Shia constituency.
▪ In fact, both of these subjects are woven into the core courses Jimi has had today.
▪ It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
▪ There are two core elements of support offered to local voluntary groups by the Campaign - information and grants.
▪ With so much change and fragmentation in the new career world, you need a solid core of self.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The government will discuss what they say are the core issues of education and health care.
▪ We concentrate most of teaching the core skills of reading, writing, and mathematics.
III.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
apple
▪ Peel and core the apples and cut into quarters.
■ VERB
peel
▪ Chop the segments. Peel and core the apples and cut into quarters.
▪ Prepare the fruits by peeling, coring and slicing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Core the apple and cut into ¼-inch slices.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Peel and core the apples and cut into quarters.
▪ Peel and core the fruit, cut it into crescent-moon slices and put it into the dish.
▪ Peel it, quarter it, core it, cut it in pieces and then poach it in a sugar syrup.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
core

Cor \Cor\ (k[^o]r), n. [Heb. k[=o]r.] A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer. [Written also core.] [1913 Webster] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
core

late 14c., probably from Old French coeur "core of fruit, heart of lettuce," literally "heart," from Latin cor "heart," from PIE root *kerd- "heart" (see heart). Nuclear reactor sense is from 1949.

core

mid-15c., from core (n.). Related: Cored; coring.

Wiktionary
core

acr. 1 congress of Racial Equality 2 center for Operations Research and Econometrics 3 consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education 4 corporate Responsibility 5 council on Rehabilitation Education 6 computing Research and Education Association

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WordNet
core

  1. n. the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"

  2. a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" [syn: nucleus, core group]

  3. the central part of the Earth

  4. 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"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, center, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]

  5. a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

  6. an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality [syn: Congress of Racial Equality]

  7. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, gist]

  8. the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

  9. a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

core

v. remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

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Wikipedia
CORE

CORE may refer to:

  • Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium
  • Center for Organizational Research and Education
  • COnnecting REpositories
  • CORE (Brazil), Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais, a SWAT unit
  • CAQH, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE)
  • Caucus of Rand File Educators, a caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union
  • Central Organization for Railway Electrification, a subsidiary of Indian Railways
  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
  • CORENIC, Internet Council of Registrars
  • Intel Core, stylized and marketed as Intel CORE as of 2009
  • Lutheran CORE
  • The last subarea of Hotland, known as CORE from Undertale
Core (Stone Temple Pilots album)

Core is the debut album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots, released on September 29, 1992 through Atlantic Records. The album, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and #3 on the Billboard 200, was certified 8x platinum by the RIAA on December 18, 2001, making it the band's best-selling album.

Core (group theory)

In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a core is any of certain special normal subgroups of a group. The two most common types are the normal core of a subgroup and the p-core of a group.

Core (game theory)

In game theory, the core is the set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's consumers. A coalition is said to improve upon or block a feasible allocation if the members of that coalition are better off under another feasible allocation that is identical to the first except that every member of the coalition has a different consumption bundle that is part of an aggregate consumption bundle that can be constructed from publicly available technology and the initial endowments of each consumer in the coalition.

An allocation is said to have the core property if there is no coalition that can improve upon it. The core is the set of all feasible allocations with the core property.

Core (radio station)

Core was a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One and streamed online. It was aimed at 16- to 24-year-olds with a focus on new music.

Core (novel)

Core is a science fiction novel by author Paul Preuss. First published in August 1993, it is about a group of scientists who must undertake a dangerous trip to the core of the Earth.

A 2003 film, The Core, was loosely based on this novel.

Core (anatomy)

In common parlance, the core of the body is broadly considered to be the torso. Functional movements are highly dependent on this part of the body, and lack of core muscular development can result in a predisposition to injury. The major muscles of the core reside in the area of the belly and the mid and lower back (not the shoulders), and peripherally include the hips, the shoulders and the neck.

Core (Persefone album)

Core is an album by metal band Persefone. The album was released on 23 August 2006 by label Soundholic. Persefone re-released Core on April 18, 2014. Core was released worldwide through Vicisolum Records. The album included a 16-page booklet and a bonus track. Pere Revert was involved in the producing of the album (Shin-ken, Spiritual Migration).

Core (functional analysis)

In functional analysis, a discipline within mathematics, a core may be:

  • An essential domain of a closed operator; see Unbounded_operator#Closed_linear_operators; or
  • A radial kernel of a subset of a vector space; see Algebraic interior.
Core (graph theory)

In the mathematical field of graph theory, a core is a notion that describes behavior of a graph with respect to graph homomorphisms.

Core (band)

Core was a stoner rock band from New Jersey during the late 1990s.

Core (optical fiber)

The core of a conventional optical fiber is a cylinder of glass or plastic that runs along the fiber's length. The core is surrounded by a medium with a lower index of refraction, typically a cladding of a different glass, or plastic. Light travelling in the core reflects from the core-cladding boundary due to total internal reflection, as long as the angle between the light and the boundary is less than the critical angle. As a result, the fiber transmits all rays that enter the fiber with a sufficiently small angle to the fiber's axis. The limiting angle is called the acceptance angle, and the rays that are confined by the core/cladding boundary are called guided rays.

The core is characterized by its diameter or cross-sectional area. In most cases the core's cross-section should be circular, but the diameter is more rigorously defined as the average of the diameters of the smallest circle that can be circumscribed about the core-cladding boundary, and the largest circle that can be inscribed within the core-cladding boundary. This allows for deviations from circularity due to manufacturing variation.

Another commonly quoted statistic for core size is the mode field diameter. This is the diameter at which the intensity of light in the fiber falls to some specified fraction of maximum (usually . For single-mode fiber, the mode field diameter is larger than the physical diameter of the core, because the light penetrates slightly into the cladding as an evanescent wave.

The three most common core sizes are:

  • 9 µm diameter ( single-mode)
  • 50 µm diameter ( multi-mode)
  • 62.5 µm diameter (multi-mode)
Core (manufacturing)

A core is a device used in casting and molding processes to produce internal cavities and reentrant angles. The core is normally a disposable item that is destroyed to get it out of the piece. They are most commonly used in sand casting, but are also used in injection molding.

An intriguing example of the use of cores is in the casting of engine blocks. For example, one of the GM V-8 engines requires 5 dry-sand cores for every casting.

CORE (real estate)

CORE, sometimes referred to as the CORE Group, is a New York-based, full-service real estate brokerage firm.

Core (architecture)

In architecture, a core is a vertical space used for circulation and services. It may also be referred to as a circulation core or service core. A core may include staircases, elevators, electrical cables, water pipes and risers.

A core allows people to move between the floors of a building, and distributes services efficiently to the floors.

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Usage examples of "core".

Nikko thought, lay in their perverse tendency to produce a sense of absentmindedness rather than of enlightenment whenever they poured their memories into the core persona.

She plucked it from his fingers and datavised her systems memory core for appropriate electronic module specifications and adaptor programs.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

Lance in hand, he flew through the vast afterbays toward the central core.

But when it gave out, the antihydrogen ice in the core would start to evaporate, react within the inner chamber walls, and evaporate more antihydrogen in a runaway reaction that would cause the dewar walls to fail from radiation damage.

What bothered her the most was that Marco had asked a question that burned through to her very core, Exactly what was being done to the babies that led to such low Apgar scores?

A great central gallery was at its core, from which smaller passageways branched, and even smaller ones from those.

He towed the drill into place beside his mark and welded the bedplate to the iron, and set the oxyhydrogen head to cut a forty-centimeter core.

Dillehay also found two bifacially flaked stone tools somewhat resembling elongated and rounded projectile points, stone flake cores and flake tools, and worked bone.

Here were found the remains of large mammals, associated with distinctive bifacially flaked spear points, and with burins and blades made from characteristic wedge-shaped cores.

She knew the unimaginable amounts of energy that had to be transferred from the Core via the Void Which Binds to her or her siblings when they phase-shifted.

Void Which Binds, is a multidimensional medium with its own reality and -- as the Core was soon to learn -- its own topography.

Core knew that the topography of the Void Which Binds could be modulated to transmit information instantaneously -- via the fatline -- but that this was a clumsy and destructive use of the medium of Planck space, rather like communicating across a continent by means of artificially produced earthquakes.

Core realized in their earliest experiments was that the Void Which Binds was the perfect medium for their own existence.

Core personae from human-based dataspheres to the Void Which Binds megasphere that the Core discovered that Planck space was not an empty universe.