different between gist vs kernel

English

Etymology

From Old French gist, from the verb gesir (“to lie down”), from Latin iace?. Compare French gésir or gîte (“lodging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

gist (plural gists)

1. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.
   • 1948, Carl Sandburg, Remembrance Rock, page 103,

     "Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson."

   • 1996, Nicky Silver, Etiquette and Vitriol, Theatre Communications Group 1996, p. 10:

     I was really just vomiting images like spoiled sushi (that may be an ill-considered metaphor, but you get my gist).

   • 2003, David McDuff, translating Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Penguin 2003 p. 183:

     I don't remember his exact words, but the gist of it was that he wanted it all for nothing, as quickly as possible, without any effort.

2. (law, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
3. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
   • 1601, Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History, 1st ed., book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:

     These Quailes have their set gists, to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set gists, to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]

Synonyms

• (most essential part): crux, quintessence; See also Thesaurus:gist
• (essential ground for action): gravamen
• (resting place): lair

Translations

Verb

gist (third-person singular simple present gists, present participle gisting, simple past and past participle gisted)

1. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.
   • 1873, Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association, session of the year 1872, at Boston, Massachusetts, page 201:

     There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, […]

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “gist”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• “gist” in Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed, 1856.
• gist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• GTis, ISTG, gits, stig, tigs

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: gist
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gest, gist, from Old Dutch *gest, *gist, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz.

Noun

gist f (plural gisten)

1. yeast

Derived terms

• biergist
• gisten
• gistzwam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of gisten
2. imperative of gisten

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of gissen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of gissen

Middle English

Noun

gist

1. Alternative form of gest

Old French

Verb

gist

1. third-person singular present indicative of gesir

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin i?stus, j?stus.

Adjective

gist m (feminine singular gista, masculine plural gists, feminine plural gistas)

1. right

Yola

Alternative forms

• jeist

Etymology

From Middle English juste.

Adverb

gist

1. just, just now

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of *kurn? (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn +? -le. Cognate with Yiddish ??????? (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l
• Homophone: colonel

Noun

kernel (plural kernels)

1. The core, center, or essence of an object or system.

   Synonyms: crux, gist

2. (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
3. (botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
4. (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
5. A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
6. (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

   Hyponyms: microkernel, unikernel

7. (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.

   Antonym: userland

8. (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.

9. (mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
10. (mathematics, linear algebra, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear map between vector spaces), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X ? Y, the set {x ? X : f(x) = 0}.

    Antonym: support

    Meronyms: root, zero

11. (mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
12. (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
13. (slang) The human clitoris.
    • 2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al, Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle

      Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel.

14. (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
    • 1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38(4) p 768.

      1. In every atom is an essential kernel which remains unaltered in all ordinary chemical changes and which possesses an excess of positive charges corresponding in number to the ordinal number of the group in the periodic table to which the element belongs.

Synonyms

• (core or essence): See also Thesaurus:gist

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

kernel (third-person singular simple present kernels, present participle kerneling, simple past and past participle kerneled)

1. To enclose within a kernel
2. To crenelate

Anagrams

• kleren

Hungarian

Etymology

From English kernel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?rn?l]
• Hyphenation: ker?nel
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

kernel (plural kernelek)

1. (computing) kernel (the central part of many computer operating systems)

   Synonym: rendszermag

Declension

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cernel, curnel, kernell, kirnel, karnel, kurnel, kurnele, kyrnel, kyrnell, cornel

Etymology

From Old English cyrnel, from Proto-Germanic *kurnilaz; equivalent to corn +? -el. Some forms are influenced by corn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rn?l/, /?kirn?l/, /?kurn?l/, /?k?rn?l/

Noun

kernel (plural kerneles)

1. A seed, grain or stone of a fruit, corn, or nut; a pepper corn.
2. (figuratively) The core or most important part of a thing.
3. (figuratively) The start of an enterprise or endeavour.
4. (anatomy) A organ responsible for production of substances.
5. (medicine) A distended organ or growth.
6. (rare) A small pebble or rock; a flake of salt.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: kernel
• Scots: kirnel; churnel

References

• “kirnel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

Old French

Alternative forms

• crenel

Etymology

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Noun

kernel m (oblique plural kerneaus or kerneax or kerniaus or kerniax or kernels, nominative singular kerneaus or kerneax or kerniaus or kerniax or kernels, nominative plural kernel)

1. crenel (space in a battlement from which weapons may be used on an incoming enemy)

Descendants

• ? English: crenel
• French: créneau

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (crenel, supplement)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English kernel.

Noun

kernel m (plural kernels)

1. (computing) kernel (central part of certain operating systems)

   Synonym: núcleo