core : Idioms & Phrases

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core bit

  • noun a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill; allows core samples to be taken
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Core box

  • (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded.
Webster 1913

core drill

  • noun a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole
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core dump

  • noun (computer science) dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU; usually used for debugging
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core group

  • noun a small group of indispensable persons or things
    core; nucleus.
    • five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
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core memory

  • noun (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories
    core memory.
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core out

  • verb remove the interior of
    hollow out; hollow.
    • hollow out a tree trunk
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Core print

  • (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
Webster 1913

hard core

  • noun the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement
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hard-core

  • adjective satellite stubbornly resistant to change or improvement
    • hard-core addicts
  • adjective satellite intensely loyal
    hardcore.
    • his hard-core supporters
  • adjective satellite extremely explicit
    hardcore.
    • hard-core pornography
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magnetic core

  • noun (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
    core.
    • each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit
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magnetic core memory

  • noun (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores; now superseded by semiconductor memories
    core memory.
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