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Definition: Core |
CoreNoun1. The center of an object; "do not eat the apple core". 2. A small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program". 3. The central part of the earth. 4. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story". 5. A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill. 6. An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality. 7. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. 8. The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place. 9. A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil. Verb1. Remove the core or center from; "core an apple". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "core" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Core \Core\, noun. [Old French cor, coer, cuer, French c[oe]ur, from Latin cor heart. See Heart.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Core n. Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms are quite current; `in core', for example, means `in memory' (as opposed to `on disk'), and both core dump and the `core image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store. Source: Jargon File. |
Biology & Biotechnology | Thin radial cylinder of wood extracted by an increment borer from living or dead stems or timber. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In young trees or in tissues located near the stem apex, an inner core of xylem surrounding the pith, in which the cells are low in density, smaller and/or less structurally developed than those of the outer xylem or older part of the stem. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Building & Civil Engineering | A wall of impermeable material inside a rock or earth-fill dam. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A piece of magnetic material, usually toroidal in shape, used for storage. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | The central portion of a nuclear reactor containing the fuel elements, moderator, neutron poisons, and support structures. (references) |
Environment | The uranium-containing heart of a nuclear reactor, where energy is released. (references) |
Geological | The innermost layers of the Earth. The inner core is solid and has a radius of about 1300 kilometers. (The radius of the Earth is about 6371 kilometers.) The outer core is fluid and is about 2300 kilometers thick. S-waves cannot travel through the outer core. (references) |
| The innermost part of the earth. The outer core extends from 2500 to 3500 miles below the earth's surface and is liquid metal. The inner core is the central 500 miles and is solid metal. (See also Earthquake ABC's). (references) | |
| The innermost layer of the Earth, made up of mostly of iron and nickel. The core is divided into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. The core is the most dense of the Earth's layers. (references) | |
Industry | Core yarn. A yarn in which one type of fiber is twisted around a previously spun yarn. . . the previously spun yarn constitutes the -- and is concealed by the outer layer of wrapped fiber. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A board tube with a multiply wall of paper wound and laminated with an adhesive, e. g. waterglass:an aqueous solution of sodium silicate. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Math | The central portion of the Earth, at a depth of approximately 2900 km. The core has a molten metallic composition. (references) |
Metallurgy | Inner part of a metal object not affected by carburizing, case hardening, nitriding or any other treatment that alters the hardness or the chemical composition of the material's surface or case; first part of a phase formed under phase transformation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The region of a reactor in which a chain reaction can take place. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The center or innermost part of the Earth. The outer core is the molten liquid portion, while the inner core is the solid, metallic portion of the Earth. The core is composed of mostly iron and nickel. (references) |
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Science
In biology, the core of a fruit contains its seeds.
In planetary science, the core of a planet contains its innermost layer(s). Due to planetary differentiation, such layers tend to be more dense than outer layers.
In a nuclear reactor, the core is the portion containing the fuel components.
In telecommunication, the term core has the following meanings:
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
- 1. The central region about the longitudinal axis of an optical fiber, which region supports guiding of the optical signal.
- Note 1: For the fiber to guide the optical signal, the refractive index of the core must be slightly higher than that of the cladding.
- Note 2: In different types of fibers, the core and core-cladding boundary function slightly differently in guiding the signal. Especially in single-mode fibers, a significant fraction of the energy in the bound mode travels in the cladding.
- 2. A piece of ferromagnetic material, usually toroidal in shape, used as a component in a computer memory device.
- Note: The type of memory referred to has very limited application in today's computer environment. It has been largely replaced by semiconductor and other technologies.
- 3. The material at the center of an electromechanical relay or solenoid, about which the coil is wound.
In computer science, and in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, core is a file that contains a memory dump - known as a core dump (see above re magnetic core memory) - of a computer program that has crasheded for some reason. It is used for debugging purposes.
Myth
In Greek mythology, Core was an alternate term for Persephone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Core."
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Core Core was the first CD released by Stone Temple Pilots in September 1992, by Atlantic Records.
Tracks:
- 1 Dead and Bloated
- 2 Sex Type Thing
- 3 Wicked Garden
- 4 No Memory
- 5 Sin
- 6 Naked
- 7 Creep
- 8 Piece of Pie
- 9 Plush
- 10 Wet My Bed
- 11 Crackerman
- 12 Where the River Goes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Core (album)."
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A DPPC bilayer simulation
Color scheme: PO4 = green, N(CH3)3 = violet, water = blue,
terminal CH3 = yellow, O = red, glycol C = brown, chain C = grey (Larger Version)A lipid bilayer is a membrane or zone of membrane, which is like a biological membrane in structure and composition but lacking proteins. In other words, it is a membrane composed only of lipid. The lipid bilayer-based membrane is a shared element of all cell-based life, and is believed to have predated it.
Within a critical range of concentrations, certain kinds of lipids alone in a test tube of water will self-organize to form a "bilayer." It is composed of two opposing layers of lipid molecules arranged so that their hydrocarbon tails face one another to form the oily bilayer core, while their electrically charged or polar heads face the watery or "aqueous" solutions on either side of the membrane.
Because of the oily core, a pure lipid bilayer is permeable to small hydrophobic solutes but has an only very low permeability barrier to inorganic ions and other hydrophilic molecules. Water itself is an exception to this rule, and crosses freely.
Other self-organizing structures that lipids assume, depending on their concentration and the type of lipid, include micelles, monolayers and vesicles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lipid bilayer."
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In archaeology, a lithic core is a distinctive artifact that results from the practice of lithic reduction. In this sense, a core is the scarred nucleus resulting from the detachment of mone or more flakess from a lump of source material or tool stone, usually by using a hard hammer percussor such as a hammerstone. The core is marked with the negative scars of these flakes. The surface area of the core which received the blows necessary for detaching the flakes is referred to as the striking platform.The purpose of lithic reduction may be to rough out a blank for later refinement into a projectile point, knife, or other stone tool, or it may be performed in order to obtain sharp flakess, on which a variety of simple tools can be made. Generally, the presence of a core is indicative of the latter process, since the former process usually leaves no core. Cores may be subdivided into specific types by a lithic analyst. Type frequencies, as well as the general frequency of types at an archaeological site, can give the lithic analyst a better understanding of the lithic reduction processes occurring at that site.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lithic core."
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Magnetic core memory, or ferrite-core memory, is an early form of computer memory. It uses small magnetic metal rings, the cores, to store information via the polarity of the magnetic field they contain. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.
History
The earliest work on core memory was carried out by the Shanghai-born American physicist, An Wang, who created the pulse transfer controlling device in 1949. The name referred to the way that the magnetic field of the cores could be used to control the switching of current in electro-mechanical systems. Wang was working at Harvard University's Computation Laboratory at the time, but unlike MIT, Harvard was not interested in promoting inventions created in their labs. Instead Wang was able to patent the system on his own.
Jay Forrester's group, working on the Whirlwind project at MIT, became aware of this work. This machine required a fast memory system for realtime flight simulator use. At first, Williams tubes —a storage system based on cathode-ray-tubes—were used, but these devices were always temperamental and unreliable.
Two key inventions led to the development of magnetic core memory, which enabled the development of computers as we know them. The first, An Wang's, was the write-after-read cycle, which solved the puzzle of how to use a storage medium in which the act of reading was also an act of erasure. The second, Jay Forrester's, was the coincident-current system, which enabled a small number of wires to control a large number of cores; see Description section below for details.
Core arrays were manually assembled; the work was performed under microscopes and required fine motor control. Initially garment workers were used.
By the late 1950s industrial plants had been set up in the far east to build core. Inside, hundreds of low-paid workers strung cores for cents a day. This lowered the cost of core to the point where it had become largely universal as main memory by the early-1960s, replacing both the low-cost/low-performance drum memory as well as the high-cost/high-performance systems using vacuum tubes as memory.
Although the manufacture of core memory was never automated, costs almost followed the not-yet-formulated Moore's Law; over the lifetime of the technology costs began at roughly a dollar a bit and eventually approached roughly $0.01 per bit. Core was in turn replaced by silicon memory chips (RAM) in the early 70s.
Dr. Wang's patent was not granted until 1955, and by this time core was already in use. This started a long series of lawsuits, which eventually ended when IBM paid Wang several million dollars to buy the patent outright. Wang used the funds to greatly increase the size of Wang Laboratories.
Core memory was part of a family of related technologies, now largely forgotten, which exploited magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification. By the 1950's, vacuum-tube electronics was well-developed and very sophisticated, but tubes were fragile, and the use of heated filaments made them short-lived, high in power consumption, and unstable in their operating characteristics. Magnetic devices had many of the virtues of the transistor and solid-state devices that would replace them, and saw considerable use in military applications. A notable example was the portable (truck-based) MOBIDIC computer developed by Sylvania for the U. S. Army Signal Corps in the late fifties.
Description
Core memory consists of a large number of small ferrite (magnetic metal) rings held together in a grid structure, with wires woven through the holes in the middle. In early systems there were four wires, X, Y, Sense and Inhibit, but later cores combined the latter two wires into one Sense/Inhibit line. Each ring stores one bit (a 0 or 1), so a huge number of cores are needed to form a reasonable amount of memory.
Core relies on the hysteresis of the magnetic material used to make the rings. Only a magnetic field over a certain intensity (generated by the wires through the core) can cause the core to change its magnetic polarity. To select a memory location, one of the X and one of the Y lines are driven with half the current required to cause this change. Only the combined magnetic field generated where the X and Y lines cross is sufficient to change the state, other cores will see only half the needed field, or none at all. By driving the current through the wires in a particular direction, the resulting induced field forces the selected core's magnetic field to point in one direction or the other (north or south).
Reading from core memory is somewhat complex. Basically the read operation consists of doing a "flip to 0" operation to the bit in question, that is, driving the selected X and Y lines at half power in the direction that causes the core to flip to whatever polarity the machine considers to be zero. If the ring was already in the 0 state nothing will happen. However if the ring was in the 1 state it will flip to 0. If this flip occurs, a brief pulse of power will be induced into the Sense line, saying, in effect, that the memory location used to hold a 1. If the pulse is not seen that meant no flip occurred, so the ring must have already been in the 0 state. Note that every read forces the ring in question into the 0 state, so reading is destructive, which is one of the oddities of core memory.
Writing is similar in concept, but always consists of a "flip to 1" operation, relying the memory already having been set to the 0 state in a previous read. If the ring in question is to hold a 1, then the operation proceeds normally and the ring flips to 1. However if the ring is to instead hold a zero, a small amount of current is sent into the Inhibit line, enough to drop the combined field from the X and Y lines below the amount needed to make the flip. This leaves the core in the 0 state.
Note that the Sense and Inhibit wires are used one after the other, never at the same time. For this reason later core systems combined the two into a single wire, and used circuitry in the memory controller to switch the duty of the wire from Sense to Inhibit.
Due to the fact that core always requires a write after read, many computers included instructions that took advatage of this. These instructions would be used when the same location was going to be read, changed and then written, like an increment operation for instance. In this case the computer would ask the memory controller to do the read, but then signal it to pause before doing the write that would normally follow. When the instruction was complete the controller would be unpaused, and the write would occur with the new value. For certain types of operations, this effectively doubled the speed.
This was important, because core memory is quite slow. Early systems had cycle times of about 6µs, which had fallen to 1.2µs by the early 1970s, and by the mid-70s it was down to 600ns. Everything possible was done in order to speed access, including using different banks of core each storing one bit of an address. For instance a machine might use 32 banks of core with a single bit of the 32-bit word in each one, and the controller could access the entire 32-bit word in a single read/write cycle.
Core memory is non-volatile storage – it can retain its contents indefinitely without power. It is also relatively unaffected by EMP and radiation. These were important advantages for some applications like spacecraft, and led to core being used for a number of years after availability of MOS memory.
A characteristic of core was that it is current-based, not voltage-based. The "half select current" was typically about 400 milliamp for later, smaller, faster cores. Earlier larger cores required more current
Another characteristic of core is that the hystersis loop was temperature sensitive, the proper half select current at one temperature is not the proper half select current at another temperature. So the memory controllers could include temperature sensors (typically a thermistor) to check the temperature and adjust the current levels to correct for temperature changes. Another method of handling the temperature sensitivity was to enclose the magnetic core "stack" in a temperature controlled oven. Examples of this are the heated air core memory of the IBM 1620 (which could take up to 30 minutes to reach temperature, about 106 F, and allow the machine to work correctly) and the heated oil bath core memory of the IBM 709.
Although computer memory long ago moved to silicon chips, a file which is a dump of memory produced after a program error is still known as a core dump.
See also:
- Twistor memory
- Magnetic bubble memory
- Thin film magnetic memory
External links
- Core Memory
- Core Memory
- Navy Manual
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Magnetic core memory."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CORE | English | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics | Economics |
CORE | French | Fichier commun sur les activités de développement | Economics, International Organizations |
| COS | English | Core operating system | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CoreSynonyms: burden (n), center (n), core group (n), effect (n), essence (n), gist (n), heart (n), heart and soul (n), inwardness (n), kernel (n), marrow (n), meat (n), nitty-gritty (n), nub (n), nucleus (n), pith (n), substance (n), sum (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone. |
Centrality | Core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration; (convergence); centralization; symmetry. |
Deception | Untrue; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide, pseudo, spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem. |
Disease | Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose. |
Importance | Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. |
Inexpedience | Bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core. |
Intellect | Soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core; the Absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle. |
Intrinsicality | Noun: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness; Adjective: essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part; (importance). |
Petitioner | Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case. |
Probity | Constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant"; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible. |
Sensibility | Adverb: sensibly; adj; to the quick, to the inmost core. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Core |
| English words defined with "core": blanket, boil, boiling water reactor, BWR ♦ core bit, core group, Core print, Coring, corncob, Cyclostylar ♦ dig ♦ electromagnet, excavate ♦ False-hearted, filler, furuncle ♦ Gabionade, governmental, gypsum board ♦ hollow, Hollow-horned ♦ induction coil, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, Italia, Italian Republic, Italy ♦ Lastex, leal ♦ mantle, Mortise wheel, Muskogee ♦ nonstandard, Nowel, nuclear, nucleus ♦ Persia, plasterboard ♦ reticular formation, RF ♦ solenoid ♦ Tesla coil, The Liberty Bell, thrash. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "core": Trunnion. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Core" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (its seed, plant), Portuguese (nucleocapsid). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Maybe I am just rotten to the core. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) That's why Rhinox and ape face want to unzip my core. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) That is of use. Honesty attracts confidence, and confidence is our core of our business (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks) Deadens the inner core of my being (Trust; writing credit: Hal Hartley) There are some beautiful museums, not to mention some of the finest restaurants in the Core. (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Lyrics | Leading you down into my core (Bring Me to Life; performing artist: EVANESCENCE) You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core (Crystal; performing artist: New Order) Hard core soft porn (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) If they're hard core. (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rotten to the Core (1965) Core furastiero (1953) Anema e core (1951) The Core (2003) Core Games (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A. Peripheral blood leukocyte from an AIDS patient producing HIV. There are several particles budding from the periphery of the cell. Other virus particles cluster outside the cell membrane. (x30) b. Enlargement of far right center area of top photo showing mature HIV particles. (x90) c. HIV particle budding from cell membrane. (x200) d. Mature hiv particle with characteristic core. (x200). See artwork: GR-07. Credit: Matt Gonda (photographer). |  | Cone-shaped cores are sectioned in various orientations. Viral genomic RNA is located in the electron-dense wide end of core. Credit: CDC. |
 | Electron micrographs from top to bottom: Variola virion (forms M and C), Varicella virion and virion core, Vaccinia virion (forms M and C). Credit: CDC. |  | Massive Magnetic Core. Credit: NASA. |
 | This Hubble telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, ... Credit: NASA. |  | These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal dramatic activities within the core of the ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Box core showing high density of manganese nodules Box cores have the advantage of showing character of undisturbed ocean bottom Off of OCEANOGRAPHER during DOMES project DOMES - Deep Ocean Mining Environmental Studies. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Recovery of box core on the PEIRCE Studying ocean dump site off Delaware Bay. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Deploying a current meter from the stern of the ALBATROSS IV for warm core study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Retrieving a buoy on the ALBATROSS IV Buoy used for warm core ring study. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Apple core" by Lucian Binder Commentary: "An simple apple core on my desktop." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Beta amyloid -- a protein found in dense deposits forming the core of neuritic plaques. (references) | |
If the whole varicella-zoster virus does not remain intact in nerve cells, perhaps its core genetic material — the DNA — survives. (references) | ||
Lack of consistent improvement beyond the core symptoms leads to the need for treatment strategies that utilize combined approaches. (references) | ||
Business | With rapidly changing market conditions, companies focus on strengthening their core competencies. (references) | |
The company could then import the core of the equipment and add the peripherals manufactured domestically. (references) | ||
The Korean manufacturers primarily import core crane parts and assemble them in Korea as finished products. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Iraq | Shi'a Arabs have supported an independent country alongside Sunni Arabs since the 1920 Revolt, many joined the Ba'th Party, and Shi'a formed the core of the army in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. (references) |
Economic History | Ukraine | ISP still remains the core business in this industry. (references) |
Armenia | After consolidation, a core of 10-15 solid banks is predicted. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | The Government continued efforts to introduce human rights as a core subject of the national school curriculum. (references) |
China | Since December 1998, at least 30 core leaders of the CDP have been given severe punishments on subversion charges. (references) | |
Indonesia | The law provides for internationally recognized definitions of genocide, crimes against humanity, and command responsibility as core elements of gross human rights violations. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | Roma are the poorest of the ethnic groups, although there is a small core of relatively wealthy Roma. (references) |
Political Economy | Colombia | This situation remains at the core of the country's human rights problems. (references) |
Poland | The Solidarity Union, forming the core of the AWS minority government, formally disassociated itself from AWS in mid-May. (references) | |
Political Rights | Tonga | In January the Prime Minister announced that the King had directed the formation of three Cabinet committees to examine the core functions of the government under the Constitution and the law, examine the government's other functions, and review the structure of the civil service. (references) |
Indonesia | The military and police have agreed to relinquish their appointed seats in the DPR and regional legislatures by 2004, but an MPR decree passed in August 2000 allows them to retain seats in the MPR until "not later than" 2009. In an apparent effort to decrease demands for an immediate end to their legislative positions, military and police legislators generally have sought to limit their involvement in matters deemed not to affect their core interests. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | The core of NIB's international lending consists of project investment loans, which are granted to projects with Nordic participation, usually with a government guarantee. (references) |
Worker Rights | Tanzania | The last major strike took place in 1998. The regional ILO office continued to call upon the Government to ratify the other core conventions. (references) |
Kenya | In June the Government inaugurated a tripartite Labor Law Reform Task Force (labor, government, and private sector) to conduct workshops on ILO core labor standards. (references) | |
Cambodia | In 1999 the Government signed a textile agreement with a foreign country, which linked garment market access to compliance with internationally recognized core labor standards. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The Sierra Club is a group of like-minded people who think America is rotten to the core and destroying the environment. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let's stop suppressing the spiritual core of our national being. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our economic program has helped to produce the lowest core inflation rate and the lowest interest rates in twenty years. |
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| "Core" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "Core" is used about 3,073 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.98% | 3,011 | 3,107 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.68% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.55% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 0.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,073 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "core" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Core | Last name | 2,000 | 7,344 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| India | Core Healthcare Limited | Netherlands | Core Laboratories N.V. |
| South Africa | Core Holdings Limited | South Korea | Hankook Core Co., Ltd. |
| USA | American Health Properties (The Core Group) | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Core, WV |
Expressions using "core": a sportsman to the core ♦ Ada Core Technologies ♦ air core chocke ♦ air core coil ♦ apple core ♦ at the core ♦ baked core ♦ body core temperature ♦ central core ♦ common core ♦ core biopsy ♦ core bit ♦ Core box ♦ core cancer ♦ core crab ♦ Core curriculum ♦ core deluge system ♦ core domain ♦ core drilling ♦ core dump ♦ core dump program ♦ core dump routine ♦ core earnings ♦ Core energetics ♦ core flooding system ♦ core flush ♦ core gateway ♦ Core gear ♦ core grid ♦ core group ♦ core inflation rate ♦ core iron ♦ core leak ♦ Core loss ♦ core marker ♦ core memory ♦ core network business ♦ core of the matter ♦ core out ♦ Core print ♦ core reflooding system ♦ core rod ♦ core stove ♦ core temperature ♦ core time ♦ Core Transformation ♦ core tube ♦ core War ♦ core Wars ♦ Core wheel ♦ core wire ♦ core wood ♦ cured core ♦ downtown city core ♦ downtown core ♦ fandango on core ♦ ferrite core memory ♦ hard core ♦ hard core pinch ♦ Hepatitis B Core Antigens ♦ HIV Core Protein p24 ♦ homogenous core ♦ honeycomb core ♦ increment core ♦ international Core War Society ♦ juvenile core ♦ magnetic core ♦ netware Core Protocol ♦ paper core ♦ Post and Core Technique ♦ prismatic core ♦ puddled core ♦ reactor core ♦ reef core ♦ rotten at the core ♦ rotten to the core ♦ seed core ♦ seeded core ♦ storm core ♦ the core of the earth ♦ the core of the matter ♦ to the core ♦ to the inmost core ♦ Viral Core Proteins ♦ wound core. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "core": core-areas, core-based, core-bell, core-byte, core-constituting, core-containing, core-electron, core-element, core-field, core-formed, core-funded, core-funding, core-level, core-like, core-mantle, core-periphery, core-plus-extension, core-to-wrap, core-type, core-vessel. | |
Ending with "core": Fos-core, Jun-core, non-core, soft-core, three-core, urban-core. | |
Containing "core": Fos-core-esqe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
soft core porn | 7,851 | core values | 87 |
soft core | 2,058 | ferrite core | 83 |
core | 856 | soft core sex | 80 |
job core | 474 | armored core line silent | 78 |
the core | 464 | core competencies | 77 |
armored core | 435 | z core | 75 |
armored core 3 | 391 | 2 armored cheat core | 70 |
septerra core | 219 | free hard core | 70 |
at the earth core | 184 | core septerra through walk | 65 |
armored core 2 | 162 | soft core pic | 64 |
3 armored cheat core | 121 | soft core lesbian | 63 |
free soft core | 118 | core tactic | 63 |
free hard core porn | 112 | composed core earth element mostly | 58 |
soft core teen | 112 | core lab | 57 |
foam core | 111 | asian soft core | 56 |
core knowledge | 111 | the core training | 52 |
the core movie | 106 | core media player | 52 |
3 armored core line silent | 99 | soft core hentai | 50 |
peace core | 98 | army core engineer | 50 |
heater core | 92 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "core"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | pit (kernel, nucleus, pit). (various references) | |
Albanian | zemër e frutit, zemër (breast, heart, heartland, pluck, ticker), thelb (backbone, burden, crux, essence, essentiality, gist, guts, heart, hinge, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nub, pith, point, soul, substance, sum, tenor), pjesë qendrore (center, centre), palcë (marrow, medulla, pith), nukël, kabëll (cable), bërthamë e tokës, bërthamë (nucleus, pip, pit, seed, stone). (various references) | |
Arabic | نزع البذور, لب (backbone, gist, heart, marrow, pith), قلب الثمرة, قلب (alter, bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), صميم (absolute, bottom, genuine), جوهر (effect, essence, essential nature, gist, immanence, matter, pith, principle, quiddity, quintessence, root, soul, substance, taproot). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сърцевина (heart, medulla), същина (content, distillation, essence, gist, guts, heart, inbeing, inside, inwardness, marrow, matter, meat, nub, pith, point, quiddity, substance, sum and substance, thisness), среда (ambience, background, circle, entourage, mean, medium, middle, setting, sphere, surroundings), ядро (cell, inwardness, kernel, nucleus, ring), ядка (kernel, local, marrow, meat, nub, nut), вътрешност (inland, inside, interior, lining), жило на кабел, активна зона, леярско сърце. (various references) | |
Chinese | 核心 (nucleus). (various references) | |
Czech | zbavit jader, ohryzek (adam's apple), jaderník, jádro (bedrock, essence, guts, inside, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nubble, nucleus, pip, pith, quintessence, seed, stone, substance). (various references) | |
Danish | kærne (kernel, nucleus, pit). (various references) | |
Dutch | kern (essence, gist, kernel, nucleus, pit), pit (fuse, grain, granule, kernel, nucleus, pip, pit, wick). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kerno (kernel, nucleus, pit). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kjarni (kernel, nucleus, pit). (various references) | |
Farsi | مغزودرون هرچیزی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ydin (kernel, marrow, nucleus, pit, pith), sydän (heart, kernel, pith, wick). (various references) | |
French | noyau (core area, electromagnet core, magnet core, resident control program). (various references) | |
German | Kern (center, centre, crux, essence, gist, gut, heart, heartwood, kernel, marrow, nub, nucleus, pip, pit, pith, quintessence, seed, stone), Magnetkern (magnetic core), Ader (bent, blood vessel, lode, nerve, reef, seam, vein). (various references) | |
Greek | πυρήνας (kernel, nucleus, nucleus nuclei). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לבה, לב הפרי, תוך (during, heart, inside, interior, mean, middle, midst, within). (various references) | |
Hungarian | magtok, mag (berry, cicatrice, corn, heart, kernel, nuclear, nuclei, nucleus, pip, seed, seminal, stone). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pusat (central, centre, navel), intian, inti (nucleus, pith). (various references) | |
Italian | nucleo (cell, group, heart, kernel, nucleus, squad, team, unit), nocciolo (gist, Hazel, heart, kernel, nucleus, point, stone), cuore (heart), carota (carrot), anima (center, centre, ghost, heart, soul, spirit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芯 (heart, marrow, wick), 真髄 (essence, kernel, life blood, mystery, quintessence, soul, true meaning), 眼目 (essence, gist, main object, point), 神髄 (essence, kernel, life blood, mystery, quintessence, soul, true meaning), 磁心 , 核心 (kernel), 核心 (kernel), 仲核 (kernel, nucleus), コール天 (cone, cone speaker, cones, corded velveteen, corduroy, corn, Corn Belt, corn chowder, corn flakes, corn snow, corn soup, corn starch, corn syrup, cornmeal, corns), 心髄 (essence, kernel, life blood, mystery, quintessence, soul, true meaning), 心 (heart, marrow, mind, spirit, wick), 中核 (kernel, nucleus), 中心 (balance, center, emphasis, heart, pivot), 中心 (balance, center, emphasis, heart, pivot), 中子 (blade, middle of a nest of boxes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がんもく (essence, gist, main object, point), なかご (blade, middle of a nest of boxes), しんずい (essence, kernel, life blood, mystery, quintessence, soul, true meaning), しん (8th in rank, Buddhist sect originating in the thirteenth century, confidence, devotion, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar, faith, fidelity, genuineness, heart, marrow, new, reality, reliance, sincerity, trust, truth, wick), かくしん (confidence, conviction, innovation, kernel, reform), コア , じしん (attendant, benevolence, by oneself, courtier, earthquake, magnetic needle, mercy, personally, self-confidence), ちゅうしん (balance, center, devotion, emphasis, faithfulness, heart, information, innermost feelings, loyal retainer, loyal subject, making a report, moderate earthquake, pivot), ちゅうかく (kernel, nucleus, septum). (various references) | |
Korean | 중핵. (various references) | |
Manx | slock (live part of horn), cree (boundary, bud, button, centre, crux, encouragement, ganglion, heart, hinge, hinge of story, hub, pith). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjerne (churn, gist, heart). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | núcleo (center, centre, kernel, nucleus, pit), cerne (duramen, kernel, nucleus, pit), caroço (kernel, nucleus, pit, seed, stone), âmago (bottom, essence, internals, kernel, marrow, marrow squash, nucleus, pit, pith). (various references) | |
Romanian | umflãturã (boss, bulge, caruncle, excrescence, gibbosity, lump, misgrowth, puff, swelling, tumor, tumour), scoate miezul, sâmbure (essence, kernel, pip, stone), protuberanţã (boss, gibbosity, knar, protuberance), nucleu (germ, kernel, nucleus), miez (essence, heart, juice, kernel, knot, marrow, meat, pulp, spine), inimã (bosom, bowel, breast, center, centre, character, conscience, heart, hearts, life, mind, soul, thick, ticker), esenţã (base, being, bottom, content, cream, essence, essential, extract, gist, kernel, kind, marrow, materiality, meat, pith, quiddity, quintessence, substance, sum). (various references) | |
Russian | сердцевина (duramen, heart, kernel, medulla, pith). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | srž (crux, essence, gut, marrow, nub, pith, pulp), jezgro (kernel, nucleus, pith), izvaditi jezgro. (various references) | |
Spanish | núcleo (center, centre, kernel, nucleus), corazón (breast, center, centre, heart, ticker), centro (average, center, centre, focus, forum, goal, headquarters, heart, kernel, mean, middle, navel, omphalos, polls, seat). (various references) | |
Swedish | kärna (churn, gist, guts, heart, kernel, keystone, marrow, meat, nucleus, pip, pit, putting-stone, stone). (various references) | |
Thai | ใจความสำคัญ (gist), แกนโลก, แกนของผลไม้, เอาส่วนในออก, ส่วนสำคัญ, หน่วยความจำคอมพิวเตอร์, ซึ่งเป็นส่วนสำคัญ. (various references) | |
Turkish | meyve göbeği, içini çıkarmak (empty, gut), iç (bowels, civil, domestic, endo-, guts, in, inland, inlying, inner, inside, interior, internal, intestine, inward, refill, stuffing, within), göbek (abdomen, bay window, belly, belly button, branch, center, center-piece, centre, centre-piece, heart, midpoint, navel, omphalic, omphalos, paunch, pod, spare tire, spare tyre, tummy, umbilical, umbilicus), göbeğini almak, dolgu (fillet, filling, inlay, plug, stopping, stuffing, wadding), öz (compact, compendious, content, cream, distillate, distillation, elixir, entity, epitome, essence, essential oil, extract, extraction, full, genuine, gist, goodness, guts, heartbeat, kernel, marrow, matter, meat, medulla, nucleus, own, pith, pith and marrow, pulp, quick, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, stuff, substance, substantiality, substratum, sum, whole), çekirdek (core memory, cystoblast, hard core, hard pan, kernel, nucleus, pit, seed, stone). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цzen (nucleus). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | суть (alcohol, backbone, content, entity, essence, essential, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), сутність (alcohol, being, essence, essentiality, gist, self), стержень (bar, spill, stalk, web), серцевина (duramen, heart, kernel, pith), середина (center, centre, mean, medium, middle, midpoint, midst, navel), сердечник, ядро (ball, bullet, nucleus, pill), вирізати середину, осердя (mandrel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thâm tâm, nơi thầm kín nhất, nòng cốt (kingpin), lõi (heart, skeleton). (various references) | |
Welsh | curnen (mound, rick), curn (mound, rick), bywyn (pith). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | libi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cor. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coeur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 36, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hgemwn kore hgemwn goqom hgemwn amalhk outoi hgemoneV elifaV en gh idoumaia outoi uioi adaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dux Core dux Gatham dux Amalech hii filii Eliphaz in terra Edom et hii filii Adae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Duke Seneth, duke Chore, duke Datan, duke Amelech. Thes the sones of Eliphath, in the loond of Edom, and thes the sones of Ade. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Duke Korah duke Gaetham and duke Amalech: these are ye dukes that came of Eliphas in the lande of Edom ad these were the sonnes of Ada. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes, descendants of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom: these were the sons of Adah. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 36, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ang pangulo nga si Cora, ang pangulo nga si Gatam, ug ang pangulo nga si Amalech: kini sila mao ang mga pangulo ni Eliphaz sa yuta sa Edom: kini mao ang mga anak nga lalake ni Ada. |
| Croatian | knez Korah, knez Gatam i knez Amalek. To su rodovski glavari Elifazovi u zemlji edomskoj; to su potomci Adini. |
| Danish | Kora, Gatam og Amalek. Det var de fra Elifaz stammende Høvdinger i Edoms Land; det var Adas Sønner. |
| Dutch | De vorst Korah, de vorst Gaetam, de vorst Amalek; dat zijn de vorsten van Elifaz in het land Edom; dat zijn de zonen van Ada. |
| Finnish | ruhtinas Koorah, ruhtinas Gaetam, ruhtinas Amalek. Nämä olivat ne ruhtinaat, jotka polveutuivat Elifaasta Edomin maassa; ne olivat Aadan pojat. |
| French | le chef Koré, le chef Gaetham, le chef Amalek. Ce sont là les chefs issus d`Éliphaz, dans le pays d`Édom. Ce sont les fils d`Ada. |
| German | der Fürst Korah, der Fürst Gaetham, der Fürst Amalek. Das sind die Fürsten von Eliphas im Lande Edom und sind Kinder der Ada. |
| Haitian Creole | Kore, Gayetan ak Amalèk. Yo tout te chèf. Se pitit Elifaz sa yo ki te chèf nan peyi Edon an: Yo tout se pitit pitit Ada yo ye. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Korah, Gaetam dan Amalek. Mereka semua keturunan Ada, istri Esau. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan amir Korah dan amir Gaetam dan amir Amalek. Bahwa inilah segala amir anak-anak Elifaz di tanah Edom, maka ia itulah anak-anak laki-laki Adah. |
| Italian | il capo di Core, il capo di Gatam, il capo di Amalek. Questi sono i capi di Elifaz nel paese di Edom: questi sono i figli di Ada. |
| Maori | Ko Koraha ariki, ko Katama ariki, ko Amareke ariki: na Eripata enei ariki i te whenua o Eroma; ko nga tama enei a Araha. |
| Norwegian | stammefyrsten Korah, stammefyrsten Gatam, stammefyrsten Amalek; dette var de stammefyrster som nedstammet fra Elifas i Edom-landet. Dette var Adas sønner. |
| Portuguese | Corá, Gatã e Amaleque. São esses os chefes que nasceram a Elifaz na terra de Edom; esses são os filhos de Ada. |
| Rumanian | cqpetenia Core, cqpetenia Gaetam, cqpetenia Amalec. Acewtia sknt cqpeteniile iewite din Elifaz, kn yara Edom. Acewtia sknt fiii Adei. - |
| Russian | УФБТЕКЫЙОБ лПТЕК, УФБТЕКЫЙОБ зБЖБН, УФБТЕКЫЙОБ бНБМЙЛ. уЙЙ УФБТЕКЫЙОЩ еМЙЖБЪПЧЩ Ч ЪЕНМЕ еДПНБ; УЙЙ УЩОПЧШС бДЩ. |
| Spanish | Coré, Gatam y Amalec. Éstos fueron los jefes de Elifaz en la tierra de Edom, los cuales fueron hijos de Ada. |
| Swedish | fursten Kora, fursten Gaetam, fursten Amalek. Dessa voro de furstar som härstammade från Elifas, i Edoms land; dessa voro Adas söner. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "core": corecipient, corecipients, cored, coredeem, coredeemed, coredeeming, coredeems, coreign, coreigns, corelate, corelated, corelates, corelating, coreless, coreligionist, coreligionists, coremia, coremium, coreopsis, corepressor, corepressors, corequisite, corequisites, corer, corers, cores, coresearcher, coresearchers, coresident, coresidential, coresidents, corespondent, corespondents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "core": albacore, albicore, encore, fourscore, hardcore, manticore, outscore, prescore, rescore, score, threescore, underscore. (additional references) | |
Words containing "core": albacores, albicores, cicoree, cicorees, encored, encores, hardcores, manticores, outscored, outscores, prescored, prescores, rancored, rescored, rescores, scoreboard, scoreboards, scorecard, scorecards, scored, scorekeeper, scorekeepers, scoreless, scorepad, scorepads, scorer, scorers, scores, succored, succorer, succorers, underscored, underscores. (additional references) | |
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"Core" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acore, Cdre, ceren, Cereq, Cerrej, ceyrek, chre, cira, cire, clore, clori, coae, Coar, Cobre, coee, coer, coera, coerc, cofe, coge, cohe, coje, comre, comroe, Cooeee, Coogee, Coor, coora, Coore, coori, Corah, corax, corce, corde, Cordee, coree, coret, coreu, corex, corey, cori, coric, Corie, corke, Corle, corne, coro, corq, corr, Corra, corre, correc, correl, corret, Corri, Corro, corse, Corve, corvee, coue, courbe, coure, courne, courre, coxe, coye, coze, cozre, cre, creo, Croa, crobe, croce, crocea, croe, Croi, cror, Crorie, crre, cuer, cura, curee, curex, Curme, curre, ecure, Icorec, korf, kure, Ncore, Ocora, ocr, ocre, ocru, ocure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "core" (pronounced kô"r) |
| 3 | k ô" r | cor, corps, decor, hardcore, outscore, score, underscore. |
| 2 | -ô" r | abhor, adore, antiwar, anymore, ashore, before, boar, bore, chore, deplore, door, Dore, Dorr, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, heretofore, Hoar, ignore, implore, inshore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, offshore, or, ore, outpour, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, Senor, shore, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, war, whore, wore, yore, your. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cero. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cor, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-2 letters: er, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r" | |
+1 letter: ceorl, ceros, chore, coder, comer, cooer, coper, cored, corer, cores, corse, cover, cower, coyer, credo, crone, crore, croze, decor, force, ocher, ochre, ocker, ocrea, recon, recto, score. | |
+2 letters: broche, censor, ceorls, cerous, cheero, choker, choler, chorea, chored, chores, chrome, cicero, cloner, closer, clover, coaler, coarse, coater, coaxer, cobber, cocker, codder, coders, codger, coerce, coffer, coheir, cohere, coiler, coiner, colder, colter, colure, comber, comers, confer, conger, conker, conner, cooers, cooker, cooler, cooper, cooter, copers, copier, copper, copter, corbel, corbie, corded, corder, corers, corked, corker, cormel, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, corpse, corrie, corses, corset, cortex, corvee, corves, corvet, cosher, cosier, coster, cotter, course, couter, covers, covert, cowers, cowier, cowrie, cozier, credos, creole, crepon, cresol, crones, crores, crosse, croupe, crouse, crowed, crower, crozer, crozes, decors, docker, echoer, encore, erotic, escort, escrow, forced, forcer, forces, fresco, grocer, hector, heroic, hocker, lector, locker, mocker, ochers, ochery, ochrea, ochred, ochres, ockers, ocreae, orache, oracle, orcein, orrice, reckon, recoal, recock, recode, recoil, recoin, recomb, recons, recook, recopy, record, recork, recoup, rector, rectos, redock, reecho, relock, rochet, rocked, rocker, rocket, roscoe, rotche, rouche, scored, scorer, scores, scoter, sector, soccer, source, tocher, troche, vector, voicer. | |
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