Word Finder - core

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

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the core of an apple or quince

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The heart or inner part of a physical thing

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The center or inner part of a space or area

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the core of a square

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The most important part of a thing; the essence.

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the core of a subject

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The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

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The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

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Magnetic data storage.

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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 multi-core processor).

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I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.

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The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

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a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core

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The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.

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A piece of ferromagnetic material (i.e. soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

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A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

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A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.

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A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.

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The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.

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The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.

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A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.

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An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e. except valence electrons).

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To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

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To extract a sample with a drill.

The sense of peace and calm at his core returned as her energy flowed through him.

The earth has an enormous molten core that contains vast amounts of energy.

Should these tests prove satisfactory the core is served with jute yarn, coiled in water-tight tanks, and surrounded with salt water.

Her green eyes pierced him to the core, and a light flush spread across her skin.

Oh, you cut me to the core.

But there was something else – something that might actually be at the core of Lori's resistance.

Despite being polar opposites, they were both honorable to the core and two of the most powerful Naturals ever discovered.

Jackson felt a jolt go straight through to his core, leaving him breathless.

Most were rotten to the core, jaded or desperate, because that's the way he liked them.

Stumps thirty or forty years old, at least, will still be sound at the core, though the sapwood has all become vegetable mould, as appears by the scales of the thick bark forming a ring level with the earth four or five inches distant from the heart.

Darian watched them hug, until the ache at his core grew too strong.

The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

Desire pooled in her lower belly, and the ache at her core was intense enough that she wanted to sit down.

At a distance from the central core the radiating ridges become less abrupt and descend with a gentle gradient, finally passing somewhat abruptly, at a height of some 7000 ft., into the level plateau.

Every step he took brought more memories of people and places he felt to his core he knew – but couldn't recognize.

All that is left of it is the core of opus incerturn.

Sprawled on the ground, Jenn stared at the pillar of roaring magic that replaced the obelisk, as if a cork had been loosened from the core of the immortal world.

Teredo navalis, it has been found necessary, for depths not exceeding 300 fathoms, to protect the core with a thin layer of brass tape.

Her words struck his core, and for a moment he was blinded by the incensed need to destroy any such threat.

An unexpected heat jarred her to her core, and the earth beneath her feet shook violently enough to rattle her teeth.

In the other gap are pivoted two coils wound on an iron core and connected at nearly a right angle to each other.

The ends of this core are connected above, below and at the right of the trough A, by means of that frame, so that the trough and this core and frame stand to each other in a position like that of two successive links of a common oval - linked chain.

Though describing himself as "anti-Imperialistic to the core," he was yet deeply penetrated with a sense of the greatness of the British race.

The teacher had an acquaintance with the core texts.

Initially, we plan to use the Dublin core metadata elementsto index the pages on the superjournal web site.

The magnetic field of the Earth is generated in its molten iron core.

However, the core gameplay can get a bit repetitive.

The mould was now ready, and melted bronze was poured in till the whole space between the core and the outer mould was full.

After slowly cooling, the outer mould was broken away from outside the statue and the inner core as much as possible broken up and raked out through a hole in the foot or some other part of the statue.

In the most primitive method thin plates of bronze were hammered over a wooden core, rudely cut into the required shape, the core serving the double purpose of giving shape to and strengthening the thin metal.

These are subsequently replaced piece by piece in the encircling frame, and a core made within it, leaving a space of 4 in.

The core of their creed is a fervid belief in the infallibility of Catholic instinct,.

The granite rocks forming the core of the dome appear at the surface on the Red Sea coast, at the western end of the transverse line of heights crossing Nejd.

To him a magnet was not simply a bar of steel; it was the core and origin of a system of lines of magnetic force attached to it and moving with it.

When it is found that the fibre separates readily from the woody shove " or core, the beets or small bundles are ready for removing from the dams. It is drained, and then spread, evenly and equally, over a grassy meadow to dry.

It is ready for gathering when the core cracks and separates easily from the fibre.

Scutching is the process by which the fibre is freed from its woody core and rendered fit for the market.

From the middle of this plain the core of Lower Cretaceous sandstones known as the Hastings Beds emerges steeply, and reaches in the centre an elevation of 796 ft.

Its central core of Lower Carboniferous rock is broadly displayed towards the north, while southward it contracts; on either side lie the younger rocks, the coal-fields, the Permian strata and the Triassic formations, the last-named, while sweeping round the southern extremity of the Carboniferous axis of the uplift from its eastern and western flanks, spread out in a large sheet over the midland counties.

PreCambrian rocks are represented by the gneisses of Primrose Hill and schists of Rushton in Shropshire; by the gneisses forming the core of the Malvern Hills, and by the ancient volcanic and other rocks of the Wrekin, Charnwood Forest and Nuneaton.

There is granite at the core of the Shaler range of mountains in southern Unalaska.

As the main range approaches the Caspian its granite core gradually disappears, giving place to Palaeozoic schists, which spread down both the northern and the southern slopes.

Subsequent denudation has removed the sedimentary covering and exposed the igneous core.

Stream erosion has dissected these domes far enough to reveal the core of the igneous rock and to give a rugged topography.

If "the idea of humanity," as Kant called it, has ethical perfection at its core, then a universe which is really an organic whole must be ultimately representable as a moral order or a spiritual kingdom such as Leibnitz named, in words borrowed from St Augustine, a city of God.

The geological core of the system consists of primitive argillaceous schists, capped by quartzite and broken through in places by basalt.

The Stoics indeed sought, more or less consciously, by their doctrine of the Logos as the Infinite Reason to escape from the belief in a divine Creator, but Philo, Jew to the core, starts from the Jewish belief in a supreme, self-existing God, to whom the reason of the world must be subordinated though related.

In such a structure the whole attention as regards water-tightness should be concentrated upon the puddle wall or core.

Having passed through the puddle core the leaking water sometimes rises to the surface of the ground, producing a visibly turbid spring.

Water-tight concrete is a suitable material for the purpose; it need not be made so thick as the puddle core, and is therefore sometimes used with considerable advantage in lieu of the puddle for the whole depth below ground.