core

«core» in Mova's school dictionary: the hard middle part of an apple or pear, with the seeds — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (core, cores); adjective (core — most important); verb (core, cores, cored, coring)

meaning for a pupil

1) The core is the hard middle part of an apple or pear, with the seeds. tree →

2) The core of the Earth is its very hot centre. tree →

3) The core of something is its most important or central part: the core of the problem. tree →

4) To core means to take out the core: core the apples. tree →

5) Core muscles are the muscles around your tummy and back that keep you steady. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, the Earth has layers: crust, mantle, outer core (liquid metal) and inner core (solid, hotter than the Sun's surface). In PE, core strength helps balance. At school, core subjects are the main ones — English, maths and science. In everyday life, apple cores go in the compost bin. Phrases: apple core, the Earth's core, core subjects, core values, to the core (completely), core strength.

examples

• Throw your apple core in the compost bin. tree →
• The Earth's inner core is made of iron and nickel. tree →
• Maths, English and science are core subjects. tree →
• Mum cored the apples before baking them. tree →
• Planks help make your core muscles strong. tree →
• Honesty is at the core of friendship. tree →
• He was a fan of the team to the core. tree →
• “But the core I will not eat!” cried Pinocchio in an angry tone. tree →

note

Countable: cores. Homophone: «corps» (a group of soldiers or workers, said «core»). Science: the core is the centre layer, the crust the outside — like an apple or a peach.

In the corpora

• Horns are different: a cow or goat keeps its horns for life, a bone core inside a cover of keratin.
• The inner core stays solid despite the heat because the enormous pressure of everything above squeezes it.
• Nobody has ever been to the mantle or the core; we know about them by studying how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.
• The Earth's magnetism comes from deep inside, where hot liquid iron swirls in the outer core like a giant dynamo.
• The Earth's magnetism is made by hot, liquid iron swirling in its outer core.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «core» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.