sore

adj 1: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: {sensitive}, {tender}]

2: causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to

him"; "the painful process of growing up" [syn: {afflictive},

{painful}]

3: (informal) roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"-

Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early";

"mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: {huffy}, {mad}]

4: inflamed and painful; "his throat was raw"; "had a sore

throat" [syn: {raw}]

n : an open skin infection

core

1. {Main memory} or {RAM}. This term dates from the

days of {ferrite core memory}; now archaic most places outside

{IBM}, but also still used in the {Unix} community and by

old-time {hackers} or those who would sound like them.

Some derived idioms are quite current; "in core", for example,

means "in memory" ({paged in}, as opposed to "on disk", {paged

out}), and both {core dump} and the "core image" or "core

file" produced by one are terms in favour. Some varieties of

Commonwealth hackish prefer {store}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-03-03)

2. An {integrated circuit} design, usually for a

{microprocessor}, which includes only the {CPU} and which is

intended to form part of a complete circuit design which

incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as {cache},

{memory management unit}, I/O ports and timers.

The {ARM6}, {ARM7} and {ARM8} are examples.

3. A varient on {kernel} as used to describe

features built into a language as opposed to those provided by

{libraries}.

(1995-03-03)