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Cone vs. Core: What's the Difference?

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A "cone" is a three-dimensional geometric shape or object, while a "core" is the central or most important part of something.

Key Differences

"Cone" and "core" are distinct terms with different implications. A "cone" usually refers to a three-dimensional geometric figure or an object resembling this shape, characterized by a flat base and a single vertex. "Core," however, represents the central, innermost, or most essential part of an object or concept. While "cone" is largely used in geometric or descriptive contexts, "core" is more versatile and can be applied in various domains such as anatomy, geology, and technology.
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For instance, a "cone" in geometry is defined by a base that is a circle and a lateral surface connecting the base to a vertex. On the other hand, "core" is used to denote the crucial component or the essence of something, such as the core of a planet being its innermost layer, or the core values representing the fundamental beliefs of an individual or organization. The "cone" is more about physical structure, and "core" is about essence or centrality.
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When discussing plants or anatomical structures, a "cone" might refer to a conical structure like a pine cone, and "core" can refer to the central part of the body or an organ that is crucial for its function, such as the core muscles in the human body. So, a "cone" represents a more specific structure or form, while "core" symbolizes the central importance in varying contexts.
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In the culinary domain, "cone" may represent a conical container like an ice cream cone, while "core" would denote the central, often inedible, part of fruits like apples. The difference lies in "cone" describing a specific form or container and "core" indicating the central section of a food item.
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Sep 22, 2023
Thus, "cone" and "core" have disparate meanings and are used in different contexts, with "cone" majorly denoting a geometric shape or resembling structures, and "core" signifying the central, integral part of an entity, concept, or structure.
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Comparison Chart

Definition

A three-dimensional shape with a circular base and a vertex.
The central or most important part of something.
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Contexts

Geometry, Anatomy, Culinary
Anatomy, Geology, Technology, Philosophy
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Part of Speech

Noun
Noun
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Example

A cone of paper.
The apple’s core.
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Usage

Describes specific structures or forms.
Denotes centrality, essence, or main component.
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Cone and Core Definitions

Cone

A solid or hollow object with a circular base that tapers to a point.
The child enjoyed his ice cream in a waffle cone.
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Sep 22, 2023

Core

The part of something that is central to its existence or character.
Honesty is a core value of our organization.
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Sep 22, 2023

Cone

The surface generated by a straight line, the generator, passing through a fixed point, the vertex, and moving along a fixed curve, the directrix.
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Core

A piece of magnetic material in an electromagnet or transformer.
The core of the transformer was made of iron.
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Cone

A right circular cone.
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Core

The central or innermost part
A rod with a hollow core.
The hard elastic core of a baseball.
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Cone

The figure formed by a cone, bound or regarded as bound by its vertex and a plane section taken anywhere above or below the vertex.
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Core

The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.
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Cone

Something having the shape of this figure
"the cone of illuminated drops spilling beneath a street lamp" (Anne Tyler).
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Core

The basic or most important part; the crucial element or essence
A small core of dedicated supporters.
The core of the problem.
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Cone

A unisexual reproductive structure of most gymnospermous plants, such as conifers and cycads, typically consisting of a central axis around which there are scaly, overlapping, spirally arranged sporophylls that bear either pollen-containing structures or ovules.
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Core

A set of subjects or courses that make up a required portion of a curriculum.
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Cone

A similar, spore-producing structure of club mosses, horsetails, and spikemosses.
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Core

(Electricity) A soft iron rod in a coil or transformer that provides a path for and intensifies the magnetic field produced by the windings.
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Cone

A reproductive structure resembling a cone, such as the female inflorescence of a hop plant or the woody female catkin of an alder.
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Core

(Computers) A obsolete form of memory consisting of an array of tiny doughnut-shaped masses of magnetic material.
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Cone

(Physiology) One of the photoreceptors in the retina of the eye that is responsible for daylight and color vision. These photoreceptors are most densely concentrated in the fovea centralis, creating the area of greatest visual acuity. Also called cone cell.
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Core

One of the magnetic doughnut-shaped masses that make up such a memory. Also called magnetic core.
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Cone

Any of various gastropod mollusks of the family Conidae of tropical and subtropical seas that have a conical, often vividly marked shell and that inject their prey with poisonous toxins, which can be fatal to humans. Also called cone shell.
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Core

The central portion of the earth below the mantle, beginning at a depth of about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) and probably consisting of iron and nickel. It is made up of a liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
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Cone

To shape (something) like a cone or a segment of one.
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Core

A similar central portion of a celestial body.
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Cone

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line. Category:en:Surfaces
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Core

A mass of dry sand placed within a mold to provide openings or shape to a casting.
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Cone

(geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
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Core

A reactor core.
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Cone

(topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
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Core

A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the interior of a mass by drilling or cutting.
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Cone

Anything shaped like a cone.
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Core

The base or innermost part, such as soft or inferior wood, surrounded by an outer part or covering, such as veneer wood.
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Cone

The fruit of a conifer.
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Core

(Archaeology) A stone from which one or more flakes have been removed, serving as a source for such flakes or as a tool itself.
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Cone

A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
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Core

(Anatomy) The muscles in the trunk of the human body, including those of the abdomen and chest, that stabilize the spine, pelvis, and shoulders.
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Cone

An ice cream cone.
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Core

To remove the core or innermost part from
Core apples.
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Cone

A traffic cone
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Core

To remove (a cylindrical sample) from something, such as a glacier.
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Cone

A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
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Core

To remove a cylindrical sample from (a glacier or soil layer, for example).
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Cone

(anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
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Core

To remove small plugs of sod from (turf) in order to aerate it.
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Cone

(slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
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Core

To form or build with a base or innermost part consisting of a different substance from that of the covering or outer part
A fiberglass boat deck that is cored with wood.
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Cone

(slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
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Core

Of basic importance; essential
“Virtually all cultures around the world use the word heart to describe anything that is core, central, or foundational” (Robert A. Emmons).
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Cone

(slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
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Core

(Anatomy) Of or relating to the muscles of the trunk of the human body
A core workout.
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Cone

(slang) A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
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Core

In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
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Cone

(category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
A cone is an object (the apex) and a natural transformation from a constant functor (whose image is the apex of the cone and its identity morphism) to a diagram functor. Its components are projections from the apex to the objects of the diagram and it has a “naturality triangle” for each morphism in the diagram. (A “naturality triangle” is just a naturality square which is degenerate at its apex side.)
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Core

The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
The core of an apple or quince
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Cone

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
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Core

The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
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Cone

A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
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Core

The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
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Cone

(transitive) To fashion into the shape of a cone.
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Core

The center or inner part of a space or area.
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Cone

(intransitive) To form a cone shape.
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Core

The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
The core of a subject
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Cone

(frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
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Core

A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
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Cone

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
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Core

Particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
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Cone

Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
Now had Night measured with her shadowy coneHalf way up hill this vast sublunar vault.
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Core

(engineering) 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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Cone

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
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Core

Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.
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Cone

A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
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Core

(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).
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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Cone

To render cone-shaped; to bevfl like whe circwlar segoent of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
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Core

(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
A floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
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Cone

Any cone-shaped artifact
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Core

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

A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
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Core

(military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
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.
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Cone

Cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
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Core

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

Visual receptor cell sensitive to color
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Core

(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
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Cone

Make cone-shaped;
Cone a tire
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Core

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.
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Cone

A surface or object resembling the geometric figure in shape.
Pine cones fell from the trees.
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Sep 22, 2023

Core

(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
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Cone

A conical utensil, container, or part.
She rolled the paper into a cone to fill it with popcorn.
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Sep 22, 2023

Core

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

A term in geometry representing a three-dimensional shape.
A cone has a base and a vertex.
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Core

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
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Cone

An object or formation resembling a cone in appearance.
The volcano spewed ash from its cone.
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Sep 22, 2023

Core

(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
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Core

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

(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
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Core

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
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Core

A miner's underground working time or shift.
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Core

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
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Core

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.
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Core

Forming the most important or essential part.
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Core

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
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Core

To cut or drill through the core of (something).
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Core

To extract a sample with a drill.
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Core

A body of individuals; an assemblage.
He was in a core of people.
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Core

A miner's underground working time or shift.
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Core

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
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Core

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
A fever at the core,Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
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Core

The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
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Core

The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; - also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.
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Core

The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
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Core

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
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Core

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

A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.
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Core

A sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.
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Core

The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.
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Core

The central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.
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Core

The central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.
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Core

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
He's like a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out.
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Core

To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
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Core

To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device. See core{8}.
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Core

The center of an object;
The ball has a titanium core
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Core

A small group of indispensable persons or things;
Five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
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Core

The central part of the Earth
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Core

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
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Core

A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
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Core

An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
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Core

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
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Core

The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
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Core

A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
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Core

Remove the core or center from;
Core an apple
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Core

The central, innermost, or most essential part of an object or entity.
The Earth has a solid inner core.
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Core

The tough central part of certain fruits.
She removed the core from the apple before eating it.
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Core

A central and often foundational part used for a specific purpose.
The core curriculum includes math, science, and English.
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FAQs

Can cone refer to parts of plants?

Yes, “cone” can describe certain structures in plants, like pine cones.
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Can the core be considered the most important part of something?

Yes, the “core” often represents the central, essential, or foundational part of something.
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Is a cone always solid?

No, a “cone” can be solid or hollow, like an ice cream cone.
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Can core refer to the central part of fruits?

Yes, “core” can refer to the central part of certain fruits containing seeds, like apples.
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Sep 22, 2023

Is the core always located in the center?

Generally, the “core” refers to the central or innermost part of something.
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Is a cone always a geometric shape?

No, the term “cone” can refer to any object or formation that resembles the geometric shape of a cone.
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Does a cone always taper to a point?

Typically, a “cone” is characterized by a base and a point, but in everyday language, it may refer to objects resembling this shape.
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Can a cone be used as a container?

Yes, a “cone” can be a container, such as an ice cream cone or a paper cone.
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Can core refer to foundational concepts in education or principles?

Yes, “core” can refer to fundamental principles, values, or subjects in education.
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Sep 22, 2023

Does the core have to be physical?

No, “core” can also refer to non-physical concepts, like core values or core principles.
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Can core denote the main component in technology or machinery?

Absolutely, “core” can refer to the main or essential component in technology, machinery, or equipment.
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Can the concept of cone be applied in anatomy or biology?

Yes, “cone” can refer to structures in anatomy or biology that have a conical shape, such as cone cells in the retina.
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Sep 22, 2023

Can the term cone have different meanings in different contexts?

Yes, “cone” can have varying meanings and refer to different objects or concepts in different contexts.
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Sep 22, 2023

Is a cone only a three-dimensional figure?

In geometry, a “cone” is a three-dimensional figure, but it can refer to two-dimensional representations or physical objects resembling this shape.
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Is the core always visible?

No, the “core” is often internal and may not be visible from the outside.
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Sep 22, 2023
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