Synonyms for core
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1. core, nucleus, core group(noun)

   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. core(noun)

   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. core(noun)

   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-gritty(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"; "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. core(noun)

   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, CORE(noun)

   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, gist(noun)

   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 core(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"

   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. core(noun)

   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. core(verb)

    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. core(verb)

    remove the core or center from

    "core an apple"

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. core

   Synonyms:
   heart, kernel, nucleus, centre

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. core(n.)

   Synonyms:
   heart, inner part

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   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

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. CORE

   Synonyms:
   Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evalation

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How to use core in a sentence?

1. Dennis Ausiello:

   Innovation is at the heart and core of the business, and discovery is at the heart and core of innovation.

2. Jason Cone:

   Our core competency is not squarely at the center of the agenda.

3. Craig Cooning:

   There doesn't seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts.

4. Antam President Director Tedy Badrujaman:

   Actually Newmont is not the only one that is attractive, all the foreign-owned shares related to the core business of Antam and state miners, we can take, be it a gold or nickel company.

5. Geoffrey Berman:

   The Southern District of New York has a long history of integrity and pursuing cases and declining to pursue cases based only on the facts and the law and the equities, without regard to partisan political concerns. My primary commitment is and has been to maintain those core values and that's how our office is operating.

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