Core and Surface

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Core noun - The seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions.

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Surface is an antonym for core in center topic.

Nearby Words: cored, coring

Surface noun - An outer part or layer.

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Core is an antonym for surface in topics: external, external part of something.

Nearby Words: surfaced, surfacing

soft	soft core	soft surface
stable	stable core	stable surface
solid	solid core	solid surface
original	original core	original surface
Other adjectives: true, outer, visible, small, actual, entire, real, large, inert, watery, inner, unstable, new, hot, planetary, rocky, last, molten, radioactive, frozen.

Relative to somebody standing on the Earth's surface, the core doesn't appear to move at all.

Source: Film / The Core
Tails lands on the constantly-shifting surface and jumps into a pit that leads into the core; he lands and enters the core after a few seconds of falling sideways.

Source: Alien Geometries
If the core "stopped spinning", it would appear to spin in the opposite direction relative to the Earth's surface.

Source: Film / The Core

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