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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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rudiment
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??u?d?m?nt/
Noun
rudiment (plural rudiments)
- (often in the plural) A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
- We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- (often in the plural) A form that lacks full or complex development.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Ornamentation of Nature
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
- (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
- (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
Hypernyms
- (biology): vestigiality
Derived terms
- rudimental
- rudimentary
Related terms
- erudite
Translations
Further reading
- rudiment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rudiment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- rudiment at OneLook Dictionary Search
Verb
rudiment (third-person singular simple present rudiments, present participle rudimenting, simple past and past participle rudimented)
- (transitive) To ground; to settle in first principles.
Anagrams
- unmitred
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin rudimentum.
Noun
rudiment m (plural rudiments)
- rudiment (fundamental principle)
Related terms
- rudimentari
Further reading
- “rudiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rudiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “rudiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “rudiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Latin rudimentum
Noun
rudiment m (plural rudiments)
- rudiment (fundamental principle)
Related terms
- rudimentaire
Further reading
- “rudiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
From French rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.
Noun
rudiment n (plural rudimente)
- rudiment
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German Rudiment, from Latin rudimentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rud?ment/
- Hyphenation: ru?di?ment
Noun
rudìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- rudiment
Declension
References
- “rudiment” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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