Synonyms for core
kɔr, koʊrcore

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1. core

   Synonyms:
   heart, kernel, nucleus, centre

   Antonyms:
   face, exterior, aspect, appearance, complexion, ostensibility, pretext

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1. core, nucleus, core groupnoun

   a small group of indispensable persons or things

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

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, lens nucleus, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, karyon, marrow, pith, cell nucleus

2. corenoun

   the center of an object

   "the ball has a titanium core"

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

3. corenoun

   the central part of the Earth

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

4. kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-grittynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   affection, summation, warmness, sum of money, sum total, means, affectionateness, substance, center of attention, center field, content, nucleus, plaza, meaning, meat, bone marrow, centre, burden, stub, center, tenderness, snapper, totality, marrow, heart and soul, sum, fondness, total, nerve, core group, internality, marrow squash, nerve center, shopping center, aggregate, nub, join, kernel, nitty-gritty, union, spirit, centerfield, gist, warmheartedness, nerve centre, inwardness, centre of attention, pith, heart, shopping mall, nubble, bosom, mall, essence, ticker, message, pump, magnetic core, effect, mettle, shopping centre, perfume, spunk, philia, subject matter, amount of money, midpoint, vegetable marrow, eye, amount, middle

5. corenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

6. Congress of Racial Equality, COREnoun

   an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

7. effect, essence, burden, core, gistnoun

   the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

   Synonyms:
   substance, loading, perfume, meat, centre, burden, center, consequence, marrow, load, sum, impression, event, heart and soul, core group, upshot, effect, nub, kernel, nitty-gritty, gist, inwardness, pith, heart, nucleus, onus, essence, magnetic core, outcome, encumbrance, issue, force, incumbrance, result

8. core, magnetic corenoun

   (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"

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

9. corenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

10. coreverb

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

    Synonyms:
    nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, heart, marrow, pith

11. coreverb

    remove the core or center from

    "core an apple"

Matched Categories

1. • Center
   • Chamber
   • Computer Science
   • Content
   • Hollow
   • Meaning
   • Nongovernmental Organization
   • Sample
   • Set
   • Toroid

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1. corenoun

   Synonyms:
   heart, inner part

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1. List of paraphrases for "core":

   basic, nucleus, fundamental, heart, coreâ, central, base, basis, main, key, essential, cores, crux, principal, baseline, major, kernel, nuclei, centre, carrot, primary, essence, critical, crucial, background, kern, vital, nub, based, root, underlying

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1. CORE

   Synonyms:
   Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evalation

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How to use core in a sentence?

1. Rob Manwaring:

   Liberal Democrat's an obscure figure with a very low support base, who is up for reelection and this is desperate attention-seeking on Liberal Democrat part to remind, particularly a core of, Liberal Democrat minority supporters, who Liberal Democrat is.

2. Stephen Miller:

   The core issue is that all the people in that audience, and millions of patriotic Americans all across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down upon, talked down to by members of Congress on the left in Washington, D.C., and their allies in many quarters of the media.

3. Lynn Bufka:

   The fear of death taps into one of our core existential fears, but you have to think about what your fear is, and how realistic it is.

4. Yang Jinlong:

   We chase them away - this is a core area so we can't let them fish here.

5. Ian Gunner:

   The weaker headline number was perhaps expected given what we've seen from the German numbers, but the core rate was higher... I think that explains the reaction.