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Kernel   /kˈərnəl/   Listen
noun
Kernel  n.  
1.
The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. "'A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel"
2.
A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
3.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
4.
The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.



verb
Kernel  v. i.  (past & past part. kerneled or kernelled; pres. part. kerneling or kernelling)  To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kernel" Quotes from Famous Books



... Centrality. — N. centrality, centricalness[obs3], center; middle &c. 68; focus &c. 74. core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration &c. (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry. center of gravity, center ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... garden lying in a lull Between the mountains and the mountainous sea, I know not where, but which a dream diurnal Paints on my lids a moment till the hull Be lifted from the kernel And Slumber fed to me. Your foot-print is not there, Mnemosene, Though it would seem a ruined place and after Your lichenous heart, being full Of broken columns, caryatides Thrown to the earth and fallen forward on their jointless knees, And urns funereal altered into dust Minuter than the ashes ...
— Second April • Edna St. Vincent Millay

... last laugh, though it choke me. And what's death, To set us twittering? I'll be no frightened squirrel: Scarting and scolding never yet scared death: When he's a mind to crack me like a nut, I'd be no husk: still ripe and milky, I'd have him Swallow the kernel, and spit out the shell, Before all's shrivelled to black dust. But, tombstones, What's turned my thoughts to death? It's these white walls, After a day in the open. When I came, At first, these four walls seemed to close in on me, As though ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

... beauty and pure joy, by giving form to angelic beings, by interpreting Mariolatry in all its charm and pathos, and by rousing deep sympathy with our Lord in His Passion, painting lent efficient aid to piety. Yet painting had to omit the very pith and kernel of Christianity as conceived by devout, uncompromising purists. Nor did it do what the Church would have desired. Instead of riveting the fetters of ecclesiastical authority, instead of enforcing mysticism ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... with so many a good cast, his heart is a kernel of death in him now; the groaning of the great hero is a sickness to me, though it is I that have well ...
— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie


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