Core vs. Heart — What's the Difference?

The central or innermost part

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the body, while carrying metabolic waste such as carbon dioxide to the lungs.

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

A hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles.

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

The central or innermost part of something

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

A conventional representation of a heart with two equal curves meeting at a point at the bottom and a cusp at the top.

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

The condition of agricultural land as regards fertility

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

Like very much; love

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

The chambered muscular organ in vertebrates that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system.

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 similarly functioning structure in invertebrates.

A similar central portion of a celestial body.

The area that is the approximate location of the heart in the body; the breast.

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

The vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities.

A reactor core.

The repository of one's deepest and sincerest feelings and beliefs

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

The seat of the intellect or imagination

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

Emotional constitution, basic disposition, or character

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

One's prevailing mood or current inclination

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

Capacity for sympathy or generosity; compassion

To remove the core or innermost part from

Love; affection

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

Courage; resolution; fortitude

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

The firmness of will or the callousness required to carry out an unpleasant task or responsibility

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

A person esteemed or admired as lovable, loyal, or courageous

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

The central or innermost physical part of a place or region

Of basic importance; essential

The core of a plant, fruit, or vegetable, such as a heart of palm.

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

The most important or essential part

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

A conventional two-lobed representation of the heart, usually colored red or pink.

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

A red, heart-shaped figure on certain playing cards.

The heart or inner part of a physical thing.

A playing card with this figure.

The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.

Hearts (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

The center or inner part of a space or area.

A card game in which the object is either to avoid hearts when taking tricks or to take all the hearts.

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

(Slang) To have great liking or affection for

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

(Archaic) To encourage; hearten.

Particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:

(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.

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

(uncountable) One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character.

Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.

(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).

Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete.

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

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

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

(archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

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

Memory.

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

(figurative) A wight or being.

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

A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.

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 playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.

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

(cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.

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

(figurative) The centre, essence, or core.

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.

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

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.

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

To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.

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

To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

A miner's underground working time or shift.

The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; - usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.

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.

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.

Forming the most important or essential part.

Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, - used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

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

One of the suits of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.

To extract a sample with a drill.

Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.

A miner's underground working time or shift.

To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

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.

The locus of feelings and intuitions;

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

The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions pump blood through the body;

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.

The courage to carry on;

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.

An area that is approximately central within some larger region;

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.

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

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

An inclination or tendency of a certain kind;

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.

A plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines;

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.

A firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal);

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.

A positive feeling of liking;

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 playing card in the major suit of hearts;

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

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

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

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

The center of an object;

A small group of indispensable persons or things;

The central part of the Earth

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

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

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

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

Remove the core or center from;