Skip to main content

core

/kawr, kohr/US // kɔr, koʊr //UK // (kɔː) //

核心,核心部分,核心内容,核心提示

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing the seeds.
    • : the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything.
    • : Also called magnetic core. Electricity. the piece of iron, bundle of iron wires, or other ferrous material forming the central or inner portion in an electromagnet, induction coil, transformer, or the like.
    • : a cylindrical sample of earth, mineral, or rock extracted from the ground by means of a corer so that the strata are undisturbed in the sample.
    • : the inside wood of a tree.
    • : Anthropology. a lump of stone, as flint, from which prehistoric humans struck flakes in order to make tools.Compare flake tool.
    • : Carpentry. a thickness of wood forming a base for a veneer.a wooden construction, as in a door, forming a backing for veneers.
    • : Engineering. kern.
    • : Metallurgy. a thickness of base metal beneath a cladding.the softer interior of a piece of casehardened metal.a specially formed refractory object inserted into a mold to produce cavities or depressions in the casting that cannot be readily formed on the pattern.
    • : Geology. the central portion of the earth, having a radius of about 2,100 miles and believed to be composed mainly of iron and nickel in a molten state.Compare crust, mantle.
    • : Also called reactor core .Physics. the region in a reactor that contains its fissionable material.
    • : Computers. Also called magnetic core. a small ring or loop of ferromagnetic material with two states of polarization that can be changed by changing the direction of the current applied in wires wound around the ring, used to store one bit of information or to perform switching or logical functions.Also called main memory, RAM .a term used to refer to main memory, though no longer made from from coils of ferromagnetic material.
    • : Ropemaking. heart.
    • : Phonetics. the final segment of a syllable beginning with the vowel and including any following consonants; the nucleus plus the coda.Compare onset.
    • : the muscles of the torso, which provide support for the spine and pelvis: Building a strong core can help with posture and flexibility and can prevent back injury.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cored, cor·ing.

    • : to remove the core of.
    • : to cut from the central part.
    • : to remove from the interior, as of the earth or a tree trunk: to core the ocean bottom.
    • : to form a cavity in by placing a core, as of sand, in the mold before pouring.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of central importance; basic; fundamental: the core values of our organization.
    • : noting or relating to the muscles of the torso: core exercises for back pain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncenter, gist

Examples

  • It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.

  • Another read: “We need leaders who will stand against Common Core.”

  • A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.

  • Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.

  • Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.

  • But Harris, exhausted and shaken as he was to the very core, paced by his side, only half listening.

  • In moments of utter bereavement who has not felt, to the heart's core, the tender attachment of a faithful dog?

  • It was one of the conservative sheets, comic-less, reactionary Republican to the core.

  • The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.

  • She peered at first into Um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.