Implication and Core

noun

• Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
  • usage: "his resignation had political implications"
  • synonyms: deduction, entailment
• A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
  • usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
  • synonyms: significance, import
• An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
• A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
  • synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
• A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
  • usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

• (n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
• (n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

noun

• A small group of indispensable persons or things.
  • usage: "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
  • synonyms: nucleus, core group
• The center of an object.
  • usage: "the ball has a titanium core"
• The central part of the Earth.
• The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.
  • usage: "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
  • synonyms: kernel, substance, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty
• A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.
• An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality.
  • synonyms: Congress of Racial Equality
• The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.
  • synonyms: effect, essence, burden, gist
• Computer science. ( a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories)
  • usage: "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"
  • synonyms: magnetic core
• The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.
• A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.

verb

• Remove the core or center from.
  • usage: "core an apple"

• (v.t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
• (v.t.) To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
• (n.) The prtion 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.
• (n.) The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
• (n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
• (n.) A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
• (n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
• (n.) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
• (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.
• (n.) A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound.