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heart
English
Alternative forms
- hart, harte, hearte (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English herte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic *hert?, from Proto-Germanic *hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European *??r (“heart”). Doublet of cardia.
Most of the modern figurative senses (such as passion or compassion, spirit, inmost feelings, especially love, affection, and courage) were present in Old English. However, the meaning “center” dates from the early 14th century.
The verb sense “to love” is from the 1977 I ? NY advertising campaign.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??t/
- (General American) enPR: härt, IPA(key): /h??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
- Homophone: hart
Noun
heart (countable and uncountable, plural hearts)
- (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.
- (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
- 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
- "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
- Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943)
- 2008, "Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers," Quaker Action (magazine), vol. 89, no. 3, page 8:
- 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.
- Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
- Synonyms: bravery, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage
- c. 1679, William Temple, Essay
- The expelled nations take heart, and when they fled from one country, invaded another.
- Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
- (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
- Synonyms: honey, sugar; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
- c. 1596-99, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act V scene v[4]:
- My King, my Jove, I speak to thee, my heart!
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[5]:
- Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
Awake.
- Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 9–10:
- Certain unscrupulous men may call upon you here in your dressing-room. They will lavish you with flowers, with compliments, with phials of Hungary water and methuselahs of the costliest champagne. You must be wary of such men, my hearts, they are not to be trusted.
- Personality, disposition.
- (figuratively) A wight or being.
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i[6]:
- […] I would outstare the sternest eyes that look, / Outbrave the heart most daring on earth, / Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, / Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey, […]
- c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II scene i[6]:
- A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ? or sometimes <3.
- A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (figuratively) The centre, essence, or core.
- Synonyms: crux, gist; see also Thesaurus:gist
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See heart/translations § Noun.
Verb
heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)
- (transitive, humorous, informal) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. [from late 20th c.]
- Synonyms: love, less than three
- 2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, "The Heart Has Its Reasons", Commonweal
- We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.
- 2006, Susan Reinhardt, Bulldog doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to draw attention, Citizen-Times.com
- I guess at this point we were supposed to feel elated she'd come to her senses and decided she hearts dogs after all.
- 2008 January 30, "Cheese in our time: Blur and Oasis to end feud with a Stilton", The Guardian (London)
- The further we delve into this "story", the more convinced we become of one thing: We heart the Goss.
- 2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
- (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
References
Further reading
- heart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Earth, Erath, Harte, Herat, Herta, Taher, Terah, Thera, earth, hater, rathe, rehat, th'are, thare
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kernel
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)
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- Synonyms: crux, gist
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (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
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- Antonym: userland
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
- (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
- (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.
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (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.
- 2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al, Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
- (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.
- 1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38(4) p 768.
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)
- To enclose within a kernel
- To crenelate
Anagrams
- kleren
Hungarian
Etymology
From English kernel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?rn?l]
- Hyphenation: ker?nel
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
kernel (plural kernelek)
- (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)
- A seed, grain or stone of a fruit, corn, or nut; a pepper corn.
- (figuratively) The core or most important part of a thing.
- (figuratively) The start of an enterprise or endeavour.
- (anatomy) A organ responsible for production of substances.
- (medicine) A distended organ or growth.
- (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
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
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)
- 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 IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (crenel, supplement)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English kernel.
Noun
kernel m (plural kernels)
- (computing) kernel (central part of certain operating systems)
- Synonym: núcleo
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