Usually means: Essential, central part of something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. CORE, core: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. CORE, -core, core: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. CORE, core: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -core, core: Collins English Dictionary
  5. CORE, core: Vocabulary.com
  6. Core, Core, core: Wordnik
  7. core: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CORE, Core, -core: Wiktionary
  9. core: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. core: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. core: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. CORE, c.o.r.e, core-: Dictionary.com
  13. core: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. core: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. C.O.R.E, C.O.R.E. (video game), CORE (Brazil), CORE (real estate), CORE, Core (India), Core (Persefone album), Core (Stone Temple Pilots album), Core (album), Core (anatomy), Core (architecture), Core (band), Core (disambiguation), Core (economics), Core (game theory), Core (geology), Core (graph theory), Core (group), Core (group theory), Core (manufacturing), Core (microarchitecture), Core (optical fiber), Core (radio station), Core, The Core (album), The Core (film), The Core, The core: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Core: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. core: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. core: Rhymezone
  19. core: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. core: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CORE, core: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. core: Free Dictionary
  23. core: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. CORE: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. core: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. core-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Core: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. core: Glossary of research economics
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. core: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. core: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Core (functional analysis), core: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. core: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. core: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  6. core, core(o)-, core-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. CORE: Acronym Finder
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. core: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Core: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Core: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Core: USGS Paleontology Glossary of Terms
  7. core, core: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  9. Core: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  10. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  11. core: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. core, core: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. C.o.r.e, the core: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. core: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. core: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. core: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  6. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  8. Candle Making Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  10. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  11. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Core: Fiberglass Glossary
  14. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  15. CORE: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  16. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  17. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  18. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  19. Nuclear Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
noun:  The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
noun:  The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
noun:  The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
noun:  The center or inner part of a space or area.
noun:  The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
noun:  A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
noun:  (botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
noun:  (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
noun:  (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
noun:  particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
noun:  (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
noun:  (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).
noun:  (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
noun:  (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
noun:  (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
noun:  A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
noun:  (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
noun:  Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
noun:  (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
noun:  The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
noun:  A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
noun:  (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
noun:  A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
noun:  (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
adjective:  Forming the most important or essential part.
adjective:  (board sports) Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
verb:  To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
verb:  To cut or drill through the core of (something).
verb:  To extract a sample with a drill.
noun:  (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
noun:  A miner's underground working time or shift.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the wife of Hades.
noun:  A female given name from Ancient Greek
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A neighbourhood of San Diego, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage. [(computing, historical, countable, uncountable) A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).]
noun:  (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume. [(historical units of measure) Various former units of volume]
noun:  Acronym of corporate responsibility.
noun:  Acronym of Congress of Racial Equality.
noun:  Acronym of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics.
noun:  Acronym of Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
noun:  Acronym of Council on Rehabilitation Education.
noun:  Acronym of Computing Research and Education Association.
noun:  Obsolete form of Korah. [A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.]

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