KERNEL
\kˈɜːnə͡l], \kˈɜːnəl], \k_ˈɜː_n_əl]\
Definitions of KERNEL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
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a single whole grain of a cereal; "a kernel of corn"
By Princeton University
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
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a single whole grain of a cereal; "a kernel of corn"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
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The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
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To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
By Oddity Software
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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. See Illust. of Endocarp.
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A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
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The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
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To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
By Noah Webster.
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A grain or seed; the eatable substance of a nut or fruit stone; the part of anything which is most full of meaning.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; a grain or corn; the seed of pulpy fruit; the central part of anything; a nucleus; the essential point; a hard concretion in the flesh.
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To harden or ripen into kernels.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The substance contained within the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit; the central part of anything; a small mass around which other matter is concreted; in bot., the embryo enclosed in the seminal integuments.
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To harden or ripen into a kernel.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A seed. A morbid formation of rounded form in any part of the body, as an enlarged gland; the nucleus or core. [Old Eng.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, English, Latin] A little grain or corn ; hence, any thing included in a shell, husk, or integument ; - the seed of pulpy fruit, as the apple ;- the edible part of a nut ; - a small mass around which other matter is concreted ; a nucleus ; the central part of any thing.
