Kernel - English meaning

noun

The essential facts or principles of a subject or skill.

Usage examples:

I learnt the basics of programming on a course

adjective

Forming an essential foundation or starting point; fundamental.

Usage examples:

Certain basic rules must be obeyed

adjective

Having the properties of a base, or containing a base; having a ph above 7.

Usage examples:

These salts yield basic solutions comparable in strength with the mineral alkalis

noun

A load, typically a heavy one.

Usage examples:

And laying my heavy burden in the safe hands of the luggage compartment i went to my seat and was g…

verb

Load heavily.

Usage examples:

She walked forwards burdened with a wooden box

noun

A duty or responsibility that is hard to bear

Usage examples:

I don’t want to be a burden on my children., he was burdened with debts.

noun

The tough central part of various fruits, containing the seeds.

Usage examples:

A pineapple core

verb

Remove the tough central part and seeds from (a fruit).

Usage examples:

Peel and core the pears

combining form

Denoting types of rock or dance music, typically those with an aggressive or extreme style.

Usage examples:

Emocore

noun

The decisive or most important point at issue.

Usage examples:

The crux of the matter is that attitudes have changed

proper noun

The smallest constellation (the cross or southern cross), but the most familiar one to observers in the southern hemisphere. it contains the bright star acrux, the ‘jewel box’ star cluster, and most of the coalsack nebula.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation crux.

Usage examples:

The star beta crucis

noun

The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.

Usage examples:

Conflict is the essence of drama

noun

The basic meaning or importance of something

Usage examples:

The essence of punk was a revolt against both the sound and the system of popular music., in essenc…

noun

A thing that is absolutely necessary.

Usage examples:

We only had the bare essentials in the way of equipment

adjective

Absolutely necessary; extremely important.

Usage examples:

It is essential to keep up-to-date records

adjective

(of a disease) with no known external stimulus or cause; idiopathic.

Usage examples:

Essential hypertension

noun

A central or primary rule or principle on which something is based.

Usage examples:

Two courses cover the fundamentals of microbiology

adjective

Forming a necessary base or core; of central importance.

Usage examples:

The protection of fundamental human rights

noun

Basic financial facts that show whether a business and its shares, etc. or an economy and its currency, are strong and successful

Usage examples:

Share prices have risen across asia as fundamentals improve., global uncertainty is unlikely to bec…

noun

The substance or general meaning of a speech or text.

Usage examples:

It was hard to get the gist of pedro's talk

verb

Engage in chat or gossip.

Usage examples:

I need a good friend i can always gist with

noun

The main subject, without details, of a piece of information

Usage examples:

The gist of what she said was that i didn’t know what i was talking about.

noun

Wheat or any other cultivated cereal used as food.

Usage examples:

He now had two patches of grain and maize while apricots, cherries, plums and quince hung heavily f…

verb

Give a rough surface or texture to.

Usage examples:

Her fingers were grained with chalk dust

noun

A seed from a plant, esp. a grass such as wheat, or the crop from such a plant

Usage examples:

[ c ] wheat and rye are two common grains used in making bread., [ u ] grain is one of the main exp…

noun

A hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. in vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles.

Usage examples:

It rises to a peak, called the systolic pressure, at the height of the contraction of each heartbea…

verb

Like very much; love.

Usage examples:

I totally heart this song

noun

A long white-fleshed gourd with green skin, which is eaten as a vegetable.

Usage examples:

Other specialist bags have been developed especially for salads and vegetables including even marro…

noun

A friend, companion, or workmate (often used as a form of address).

Usage examples:

Come here, marrer, we need to talk

noun

The soft, fatty tissue in the center of bones

noun

The flesh of an animal, typically a mammal or bird, as food (the flesh of domestic fowls is sometimes distinguished as poultry ).

Usage examples:

Pieces of meat

noun

The flesh of an animal when it is used for food

Usage examples:

Get a pound of chopped meat from the supermarket on your way home.

noun

The basic facts of a situation

Usage examples:

Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of the actual building costs.

noun

The crux or central point of a matter.

Usage examples:

The nub of the problem lies elsewhere

noun

The most important or basic part of something

Usage examples:

What do you think is the nub of the problem?

noun

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

verb

Butt (someone) with one's head.

Usage examples:

I thought he was going to nut me in the face

abbreviation

(in the uk) national union of teachers.

noun

The spongy white tissue lining the rind of oranges, lemons, and other citrus fruits.

Usage examples:

Remove the rind and white pith from the lemons and then cut the flesh into very thin slices, removi…

verb

Remove the pith from.

Usage examples:

Peel and pith the oranges

noun

The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.

Usage examples:

He was the quintessence of political professionalism

noun

The most typical example

Usage examples:

An american football game is the quintessence of machismo.

noun

The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

Usage examples:

Cut open the peppers and remove the seeds

verb

Sow (land) with seeds.

Usage examples:

The shoreline is seeded with a special grass

noun

A small, usually hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow

Usage examples:

A good defense lawyer knows how to plant these little seeds of doubt in the minds of jurors., we se…

noun

Hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material.

Usage examples:

The houses are built of stone

verb

Throw stones at.

Usage examples:

Three vehicles were stoned and torched

noun

The hard, solid substance found in the ground that is often used as a building material, or a small piece of this substance

Usage examples:

[ u ] the museum was made of stone., [ c ] he wore a ring with a black stone on his little finger.,…

noun

A particular kind of matter with uniform properties.

Usage examples:

A steel tube coated with a waxy substance

noun

A material with particular physical characteristics

Usage examples:

The pesticide contains a substance that is toxic to insects., surprisingly, these filmmakers opted …