core – English noun declension

English noun forms of core

Noun: core
Singularcore
Pluralcores

Sample Sentences

  • the core of an apple or quince
  • Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages. [2013 March 26, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:]
  • the core of the square [1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):]
  • the core of a subject
  • Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core. [2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:]
  • General vocabulary is often defined as a common core of English words and operationalized as the most frequent words in a balanced and representative corpus of English. [2018, 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 107:]
  • Photographs of cottagecore focuses on countrysides or forests.
  • 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.
  • a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
  • In the engine room, the changing angle dropped the melted core to the deck. The hot mass attacked the steel deck first, burning through that, then the titanium of the hull. Five seconds later the engine room was vented to the sea. [1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:]
  • In 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.
  • [the skin of the sheep] is clear from cores and jogs under the jaws. [1750, William Ellis, Modern Husbandry or Practice of Farming:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively 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.
2. Compare typologically Russian серде́чник (serdéčnik), сердцеви́на (serdcevína)) (akin to се́рдце (sérdce), cognate with heart, Latin cor). See: Middle English Nouns 'core', Old English Nouns '*cor', Old English Nouns '*coruc', Middle English Nouns 'cork', Latin Nouns 'cor', Latin Nouns 'corpus'.

Verbs referencing "core"

Russian Nouns кор.