Synonyms for core
kɔr, koʊrcore

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

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

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"

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

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

1. corenoun

   Synonyms:
   heart, inner part

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

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

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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1. James Stowe:

   Why weren’t they the thrust of our efforts, the very core of what we wanted to do? Why didn’t it include this group from the very outset?

2. Angela Merkel:

   We made it clear that we are ready to compromise, but always on the basis that we safeguard the core European principles, which include non-discrimination and free movement.

3. Judy Norton:

   It was really the producers who went out and created a grassroots campaign, like taking out ads and doing interviews in the heartland, in Middle America, where we really found our audience, just really kind of pleading with people to watch the show and embrace it, she added. And that was really the audience that formed the core… Those are our really loyal fans that continue to watch the show in reruns.

4. Barack Obama:

   The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do, this is an example of where we have to be very clear about what our core interests are andwhat we are willing to go to war for.

5. Charlie Wheeler:

   Rauner has a bottom line of being anti-union... and that goes against a core belief of the Democratic Party, so those kind of things aren't negotiable.