Core vs. Winding — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Core and Winding
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Core
The central or innermost part
A rod with a hollow core.
The hard elastic core of a baseball.
Winding
Something wound about a center or an object
An armature with its wire winding.
Core
The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.
Winding
The way in which something is wound.
Core
The basic or most important part; the crucial element or essence
A small core of dedicated supporters.
The core of the problem.
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Winding
One complete turn of something wound
Two windings of electrical tape.
Core
A set of subjects or courses that make up a required portion of a curriculum.
Winding
A curve or bend, as of a road.
Core
(Electricity) A soft iron rod in a coil or transformer that provides a path for and intensifies the magnetic field produced by the windings.
Winding
Twisting or turning; sinuous.
Core
(Computers) A obsolete form of memory consisting of an array of tiny doughnut-shaped masses of magnetic material.
Winding
Spiral.
Core
One of the magnetic doughnut-shaped masses that make up such a memory. Also called magnetic core.
Winding
Present participle of wind
Core
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.
Winding
Present participle of wind
Core
A similar central portion of a celestial body.
Winding
Something wound around something else.
Core
A mass of dry sand placed within a mold to provide openings or shape to a casting.
Winding
The manner in which something is wound.
Core
A reactor core.
Winding
One complete turn of something wound.
Core
A cylindrical sample of rock, ice, or other material obtained from the interior of a mass by drilling or cutting.
Winding
Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
Core
The base or innermost part, such as soft or inferior wood, surrounded by an outer part or covering, such as veneer wood.
Winding
(electrical) A length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
Core
(Archaeology) A stone from which one or more flakes have been removed, serving as a source for such flakes or as a tool itself.
Winding
Lapping.
Core
(Anatomy) The muscles in the trunk of the human body, including those of the abdomen and chest, that stabilize the spine, pelvis, and shoulders.
Winding
The act or process of winding (turning a boat etc. around).
Core
To remove the core or innermost part from
Core apples.
Winding
Twisting, turning or sinuous.
Core
To remove (a cylindrical sample) from something, such as a glacier.
Winding
Spiral or helical.
Core
To remove a cylindrical sample from (a glacier or soil layer, for example).
Winding
A call by the boatswain's whistle.
Core
To remove small plugs of sod from (turf) in order to aerate it.
Winding
A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.
To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the groveWith ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove.
Core
To form or build with a base or innermost part consisting of a different substance from that of the covering or outer part
A fiberglass boat deck that is cored with wood.
Winding
The material, as wire or rope, wound or coiled about anything, or a single round or turn of the material;
Core
Of basic importance; essential
“Virtually all cultures around the world use the word heart to describe anything that is core, central, or foundational” (Robert A. Emmons).
Winding
A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.
Core
(Anatomy) Of or relating to the muscles of the trunk of the human body
A core workout.
Winding
Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.
Core
In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
Winding
The act of winding or twisting;
He put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind
Core
The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
The core of an apple or quince
Winding
Marked by repeated turns and bends;
A tortuous road up the mountain
Winding roads are full of surprises
Had to steer the car down a twisty track
Core
The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
Winding
Of a path e.g.;
Meandering streams
Rambling forest paths
The river followed its wandering course
A winding country road
Core
The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
Core
The center or inner part of a space or area.
Core
The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
The core of a subject
Core
A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
Core
Particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
Core
(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
Core
Ellipsis of core memory; magnetic data storage.
Core
(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).
I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.
Core
(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
A floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
Core
The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
Core
(military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
In a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.
Core
A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
Core
(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
Core
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.
Core
(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
Core
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Core
A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
Core
(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
Core
A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
Core
(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
Core
(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
Core
A miner's underground working time or shift.
Core
: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Core
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.
Core
Forming the most important or essential part.
Core
To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
Core
To cut or drill through the core of (something).
Core
To extract a sample with a drill.
Core
A body of individuals; an assemblage.
He was in a core of people.
Core
A miner's underground working time or shift.
Core
A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
Core
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 fever at the core,Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
Core
The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
Core
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.
Core
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.
Core
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.
Core
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Core
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.
Core
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.
Core
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.
Core
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.
Core
The central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.
Core
To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.
He's like a corn upon my great toe . . . he must be cored out.
Core
To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.
Core
To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device. See core{8}.
Core
The center of an object;
The ball has a titanium core
Core
A small group of indispensable persons or things;
Five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
Core
The central part of the Earth
Core
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
Core
A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
Core
An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
Core
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
Core
The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
Core
A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
Core
Remove the core or center from;
Core an apple
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