different between core vs vendor

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)

1. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

2. The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
3. The center or inner part of a space or area.

   • the core of the square

4. The most important part of a thing; the essence.

5. (botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
6. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
7. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
8. (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.
9. (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).

10. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

11. (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
12. (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.

13. A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
14. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

15. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
16. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
17. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
18. (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
19. (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
20. (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)

1. Forming the most important or essential part.

Verb

core (third-person singular simple present cores, present participle coring, simple past and past participle cored)

1. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
2. To extract a sample with a drill.

Derived terms

• corer
• uncore
• uncored

Translations

Etymology 2

See corps

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

   • He was in a core of people.

Translations

Etymology 3

See chore

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. A miner's underground working time or shift.

Translations

Etymology 4

From Hebrew ?????

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (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)

1. (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

1. heart

   • Ti son la manduleîna del mio core;

     You are the almond of my heart;

Italian

Noun

core (core)

1. Archaic form of cuore.

Latin

Noun

core

1. ablative singular of coris

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin cor. Compare Italian cuore.

Noun

core m (plural core)

1. heart

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English core.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/, /?k??/

Noun

core m (plural cores)

1. (computer architecture) core (independent unit in a processor with several such units)

   Synonym: núcleo

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/

Verb

core

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of corar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of corar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of corar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of corar

English

Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?n.d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
• Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. A vending machine.
   • 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)

     She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendor bid
• vendue

Translations

Verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

1. (transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

   I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.

2. (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

   Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

Anagrams

• Verdon, droven

Latin

Verb

v?ndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?nd?