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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
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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)
- 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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rye
English
Etymology
From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ry?e, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrug?ís.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian ???? (rož?) and Latvian rudzi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophone: wry
Noun
rye (countable and uncountable, plural ryes)
- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder. [from 8th c.]
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained. [from 14th c.]
- Rye bread. [from 19th c.]
- (US, Canada) Rye whiskey. [from 19th c.]
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 159:
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Coordinate terms
- (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat
Derived terms
- ryegrass
Translations
Anagrams
- -ery, -yer, Rey, Yer, e'ry, eyr, yer, yre
Middle English
Alternative forms
- rie, reye, reyghe, reyhe, ruye
Etymology
From Old English ryge, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?(?)/
Noun
rye (plural ryes)
- rye (Secale cereale)
Descendants
- English: rye
- Scots: ry
- Yola: ree
References
- “r?e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
rye f (definite singular rya, indefinite plural ryer, definite plural ryene)
- rya
Related terms
- ru
References
- “rye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- yre
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