Core vs. Base — What's the Difference?

The central or innermost part

The lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported

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

A conceptual structure or entity on which something draws or depends

The basic or most important part; the crucial element or essence

A place used as a centre of operations by the armed forces or others; a headquarters

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

A main or important element or ingredient to which other things are added

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

A substance capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt and water, or (more broadly) of accepting or neutralizing hydrogen ions.

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

The middle part of a bipolar transistor, separating the emitter from the collector.

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

The root or stem of a word or a derivative.

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.

A number used as the basis of a numeration scale.

A similar central portion of a celestial body.

Each of the four stations that must be reached in turn to score a run.

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

Use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something

A reactor core.

Situate at a specified place as the centre of operations

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

Without moral principles; ignoble

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

Denoting or befitting a person of low social class.

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

(of coins or other articles) not made of precious metal

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

The lowest or bottom part

To remove the core or innermost part from

The part of a plant or animal organ that is nearest to its point of attachment.

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

The point of attachment of such an organ.

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

A supporting part or layer; a foundation

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

A basic or underlying element; infrastructure

To form or build with a base or innermost part consisting of a different substance from that of the covering or outer part

The fundamental principle or underlying concept of a system or theory; a basis.

Of basic importance; essential

A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent

(Anatomy) Of or relating to the muscles of the trunk of the human body

The fact, observation, or premise from which a reasoning process is begun.

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

(Games) A starting point, safety area, or goal.

The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

(Baseball) Any one of the four corners of an infield, marked by a bag or plate, that must be touched by a runner before a run can be scored.

The heart or inner part of a physical thing.

A center of organization, supply, or activity; a headquarters.

The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.

The portion of a social organization, especially a political party, consisting of the most dedicated or motivated members.

The center or inner part of a space or area.

A fortified center of operations.

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

A supply center for a large force of military personnel.

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

A facial cosmetic used to even out the complexion or provide a surface for other makeup; a foundation.

Particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:

(Architecture) The lowest part of a structure, such as a wall, considered as a separate unit

(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

(Heraldry) The lower part of a shield.

Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.

(Linguistics) A morpheme or morphemes regarded as a form to which affixes or other bases may be added.

(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).

The side or face of a geometric figure to which an altitude is or is thought to be drawn.

(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

The number that is raised to various powers to generate the principal counting units of a number system. The base of the decimal system, for example, is 10.

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

The number raised to the logarithm of a designated number in order to produce that designated number; the number at which a chosen logarithmic scale has the value 1.

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

A line used as a reference for measurement or computations.

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

Any of a class of compounds whose aqueous solutions are characterized by a bitter taste, a slippery feel, the ability to turn litmus blue, and the ability to react with acids to form salts.

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

A substance that yields hydroxide ions when dissolved in water.

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.

A substance that can act as a proton acceptor.

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

A substance that can donate a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond.

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

The region in a transistor between the emitter and the collector.

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

The electrode attached to this region.

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

One of the nitrogen-containing purines (adenine and guanine) or pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine, and uracil) that occurs attached to the sugar component of DNA or RNA.

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

A bass singer or voice.

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

Forming or serving as a base

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Situated at or near the base or bottom

A miner's underground working time or shift.

(Chemistry) Of, relating to, or containing a base.

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Having or showing a lack of decency; contemptible, mean-spirited, or selfish.

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.

Being a metal that is of little value.

Forming the most important or essential part.

Containing such metals

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

(Archaic) Of low birth, rank, or position.

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

(Obsolete) Short in stature.

To extract a sample with a drill.

To form or provide a base for

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

To find a basis for; establish

A miner's underground working time or shift.

To assign to a base; station

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

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 supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.

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

The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

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.

A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

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.

The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.

A basic but essential component or ingredient.

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

A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

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.

(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

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.

(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

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.

Important areas in games and sports.

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.

A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.

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

(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

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

A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

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

(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

The center of an object;

(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

A small group of indispensable persons or things;

(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

The central part of the Earth

(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

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

(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.

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

(mathematics) radix.

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

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

(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

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

(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

Remove the core or center from;

In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

(music) bass

The smallest kind of cannon.

(archaic) The housing of a horse.

A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

(obsolete) An apron.

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

(aviation) base leg

(slang) freebase cocaine

The game of prisoners' bars.

Alternative form of BASE

(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).

To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

(slang) To freebase.

(obsolete) Low in height; short.

Low in place or position.

(obsolete) Of low value or degree.

(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.

Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.

Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.

(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.

(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.

Not classical or correct.

Obsolete form of bass

(legal) Not held by honourable service.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

Low in place or position.

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.

Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.

Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.

Not classical or correct.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.

The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.

The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; - applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

The chief ingredient in a compound.

A substance used as a mordant.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.

The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.

A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.

A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.

The smallest kind of cannon.

That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.

The basal plane of a crystal.

The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.

The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.

The housing of a horse.

A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

An apron.

The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

A rustic play; - called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.

Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.

To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; - used with on or upon.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.

To reduce the value of; to debase.

Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water;

Installation from which a military force initiates operations;

Lowest support of a structure;

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place;

The bottom or lowest part;

(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment;

A lower limit;

The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

A support or foundation;

The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed;

The most important or necessary part of something;

The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end

An intensely anti-western terrorist network that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist group; has cells in more than 50 countries

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed;

The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area;

The principal ingredient of a mixture;

A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit;

(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector

Use as a basis for; found on;

Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes

Assign to a station

Serving as or forming a base;

(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal;

Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);

Not adhering to ethical or moral principles;

Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality;

Illegitimate

Debased; not genuine;