{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "kɔr" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/core.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/core.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin (compare Old English corn (“seed\", also \"grain”), or perhaps from 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”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.", "See corps", "See chore", "From Hebrew כֹּר‎.", "Possibly an acronym for cash on return" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.", "submean": [ "The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.\nthe core of an apple or quince", "The heart or inner part of a physical thing.\n", "The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.", "The center or inner part of a space or area.\n" ] }, { "mean": "The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.\n\nthe core of a subject", "submean": [ "A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.\n(botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.\n(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:", "submean": [ "(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.", "(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).\nI 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.", "(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.\na floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core", "(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.\nIn a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.", "A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.", "(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound." ] }, { "mean": "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.", "submean": [ "(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.", "The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.", "A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.\n", "(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.", "A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.", "(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons)." ] } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Forming the most important or essential part.\n2009, Greg Hayes, A Practical Guide to Business Valuations for SMEs, page 68:Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.\n2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.\n2018, Clarence Green; James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:These lists cover important vocabulary from eight core subjects that students need to master during secondary education: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To remove the core of an apple or other fruit." }, { "mean": "To cut or drill through the core of (something)." }, { "mean": "To extract a sample with a drill." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A miner's underground working time or shift." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(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." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(The most important part of a thing): crux, gist; See also Thesaurus:gist" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }