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"

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1. • Center
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   • Sample
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   • 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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1. Charles Jung:

   I see this frustration with the direction of the party, asian Americans feel like Democrats are focused on the wrong things, that they’ve let ideology run amok. If Democrats don’t redouble their efforts to focus on core Democratic issues, they will lose people of color over time.

2. Philip Hammond:

   The plan has always been to work as a core member of the Galileo project, contributing financially and technically to the project. If that proves impossible then Britain will have to go it alone, possibly with other partners outside Europe and the U.S., to build a third competing system, for national security strategic reasons we need access to a system and we'll ensure that we get it.

3. President George W. Bush:

   I ’m sure every nominee before you would have personal beliefs about that precedent and many others. But all nominees are united in their belief that what they think about a precedent should not bear on how they will decide cases. She was more pragmatic two years ago – just days before the presidential election – about the chances that Roe v. Wade would be overturned in coming years : I don't think the core case -- Roe's holding that women have a right to abortion -- I don't think that will change, but I think the question of whether people can get late-term abortions -- how many restrictions can be put on clinics -- I don't think that will change. Brett Kavanaugh, steady insider The federal appeals court here in Washington is seen as a professional stepping-stone to Supreme Court. Three current justices( John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas) served on that bench before joining the high court, as did Scalia. Now Brett Kavanaugh is poised to make the leap, though if history is any guide, Brett Kavanaugh could face an especially tough Senate confirmation. It is the image that may cement – or sink – the Supreme Court aspirations of Brett Kavanaugh. Brett Kavanaugh elevation to the federal appeals court was celebrated with a Rose Garden swearing-in by a fellow Catholic who's now retiring from the bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Brett Kavanaugh served as a law clerk in 1993. Front and center : Brett Kavanaugh former boss, President George W. Bush, the man who nominated Brett Kavanaugh. I chose Brett Kavanaugh because of the force of Brett Kavanaugh mind, the breadth of Brett Kavanaugh experience and the strength of Brett Kavanaugh character.

4. Weiwen Ng:

   Growth is clearly undershooting. Core inflation is still benign for now. So normally that would actually warrant an easing in monetary policy settings, when the central bank actually next meets in October.

5. Rodrigo Catril:

   COVID-19 anxiety has risen to a new level amid concerns of virus outbreaks in Beijing and outside of China, u.S. and EU equity markets have been sold across the board with core global yields benefiting from safe-haven flows.