CORE

18 6.0

An American civil rights group founded in 1942 that promotes racial equality

proper noun
/kɔr/

: CORE

During the 1960s, many students joined CORE to fight for civil rights across America.
Core Standards
Common Core
Core initiative

Examples

Then I volunteer at CORE, Fridays and Saturdays.

A Complete Unknown (2024)
George Simkins Jr: Operator, get me the office of CORE in New York City.

Fiction book (2002)
I was working at CORE and that was an incredible time.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
We were living with my aunt who was a member of Brooklyn CORE, Congress of Racial Equality, and immediately, I think about two weeks after arriving from Barbados, we were out on the picket lines because there was a huge civil disobedience where black people were protesting the fact that they were building a medical center in Brooklyn, the Downstate Medical Center, and they weren't hiring black people.

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)
At CORE, volunteers organized peaceful protests and educational programs to promote racial equality.
The history of CORE reflects the struggle for justice and equality in American society.

Synonyms

Congress of Racial Equality

vsCORE

4.4

A US civil rights group founded in 1942 to fight racial segregation

focuses on promoting racial equality rather than explicitly stating ending segregation

Idioms

to its core

4 5.6

In a way that changes someone or something very deeply and completely

rotten to the core

Offensive

4 8.1

Completely dishonest and morally bad in every part

Compounds

hard-core

11 6.5

Very loyal and dedicated to a group or cause

core group

10 3.5

A small group of people who are most important in a larger organization or activity

hard core

5 5.4

A small group of members who are very loyal and always support it

core strength

3 3.4

Strength in the muscles around your stomach and back that helps you stay steady and move

hard-core

3 7.5

Unwilling to change bad habits or beliefs

core drill

Specialized

1 6.1

A tool that cuts out a round piece from hard materials like concrete or rock

magnetic core

Archaic

1 8.6

A small ring in old computers that stores one piece of information

magnetic core memory

Archaic

1 8.3

A group of tiny magnetic rings used in old computers to store data

hard-core

Jargon

1 7.9

A game mode where death means permanent loss of progress

core bit

Specialized

7.8

A hollow cutting cylinder used in a drill to remove a sample of rock or concrete

core blower

Specialized

7.9

A machine that uses compressed air to pack sand into a box to make sand shapes for molds

core dump

Specialized

7.7

A file that shows what is in a computer's memory when a program crashes to help find errors

core histone

Specialized

8.3

A protein that DNA wraps around inside cells

core memory

Archaic

8.1

An old kind of computer storage that uses small magnetic rings to hold data

core memory

5.5

A very important thing someone remembers that shapes who they are and their choices

core shooter

Specialized

9.0

A machine that makes sand shapes for metal casting by blowing sand into a mold

core shooting machine

Specialized

9.7

A machine in a metal workshop that forces sand into a mould to make cores

demon core

Specialized

9.9

A small dangerous mass of radioactive metal used in early US tests that caused fatal accidents

Surface Forms

CORE main

Morphology

CORE = C + O + R + E

As an acronym formed from initial letters, 'CORE' does not allow learners to infer the meaning of the organization through ordinary English morphological composition.

Etymology

CORE is a short name made from the first letters of Congress of Racial Equality and it began in 1942 as an American civil rights organization. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the ordinary word 'core' meaning 'center', because the group was at the 'core' of many actions for racial equality, so today CORE refers to that organization.