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core
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: corps; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of uncertain origin; either from Old Irish cride, from Proto-Celtic *kridyom, from Proto-Indo-European *??r. Possibly Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”). See also heart, corpse.
Noun
core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- the core of the square
- The most important part of a thing; the essence.
- (botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.
- (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
- (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
Synonyms
- (The most important part of a thing): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist
Hyponyms
- (central part of fruit): apple core
- (inner part of a physical thing): bifacial core
- (cylindrical sample): drill core
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Translingual: core Caryophyllales, core eudicots, core Malvales
Translations
Adjective
core (not comparable)
- Forming the most important or essential part.
Verb
core (third-person singular simple present cores, present participle coring, simple past and past participle cored)
- To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- To extract a sample with a drill.
Derived terms
- corer
- uncore
- uncored
Translations
Etymology 2
See corps
Noun
core (plural cores)
- (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- He was in a core of people.
Translations
Etymology 3
See chore
Noun
core (plural cores)
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
Translations
Etymology 4
From Hebrew ?????
Noun
core (plural cores)
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Etymology 5
Possibly an acronym for cash on return
Noun
core (plural cores)
- (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
References
Anagrams
- ROCE, cero, cero-, creo, ocre
Istriot
Alternative forms
- cor
Etymology
From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.
Noun
core
- heart
- Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;
- You are the almond of my heart;
- Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;
Italian
Noun
core (core)
- Archaic form of cuore.
Latin
Noun
core
- ablative singular of coris
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.
Noun
core m (plural core)
- heart
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English core.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k?.?i/, /?k??/
Noun
core m (plural cores)
- (computer architecture) core (independent unit in a processor with several such units)
- Synonym: núcleo
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?k?.?i/
Verb
core
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of corar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of corar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of corar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of corar
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elective
English
Etymology
elect +? -ive
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
elective (comparative more elective, superlative most elective)
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- Synonym: electoral
- Antonyms: appointive, hereditary
- 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,[2]
- For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:
- 1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error” in Poems, London: J. Johnson, p. 43,[3]
- Man thus endued with an elective voice,
- Must be supplied with objects of his choice.
- 1854, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Boston: Little, Brown, Volume 6, Chapter 35, p. 185,[4]
- […] they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;
- 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, “Proto-Leaf,” p. 21,[5]
- See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, clothed in easy and dignified clothes?teaching, commanding, marrying, generating, equally electing and elective;
- 1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,[6]
- [The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]
- Open to choice; freely chosen.
- Synonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary
- Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary
- 1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie, London: F. Eaglesfield, pp. 12-13,[7]
- […] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,[8]
- “You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”
- “Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”
- “Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”
- 2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Toronto: Viking, p. 23,[9]
- [Her friends] are, after all, her elective siblings who have distanced themselves from the ways of the past, their families […]
- 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 38, p. 346,[10]
- “ […] That blog is a game that you don’t really take seriously, it’s like choosing an interesting elective evening class to complete your credits.”
- 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, p. 130,
- Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.
Related terms
- elect
- election
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
elective (plural electives)
- Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
Translations
Anagrams
- cleveite
References
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