Nut vs. Kernel
Nutnoun
A hard-shelled seed.
Nutnoun
A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
Nutnoun
(slang) A crazy person.
Nutnoun
(slang) The head.
Nutnoun
Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
Nutnoun
The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
Nutnoun
A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
Nutnoun
On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
Nutnoun
En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
Nutnoun
An extravagantly fashionable young man.
Nutnoun
A testicle.
Nutnoun
Semen, ejaculate.
Nutnoun
Orgasm male, ejaculation, release of semen
Nutnoun
(colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
Nutnoun
(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
Nutnoun
The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare t=the best possible hand available.
Nutnoun
The tumbler of a gunlock.
Nutnoun
(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
Nutverb
(mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
Nutverb
To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
Nutverb
To ejaculate.
Nutnoun
The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
Nutnoun
A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of 1st Bolt.
Nutnoun
The tumbler of a gunlock.
Nutnoun
A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
Nutnoun
Testicles.
Nutverb
To gather nuts.
Nutnoun
usually large hard-shelled seed
Nutnoun
Egyptian goddess of the sky
Nutnoun
a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
Nutnoun
half the width of an em
Nutnoun
a whimsically eccentric person
Nutnoun
someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction;
Nutnoun
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;
Nutverb
gather nuts
Kernelnoun
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
Kernelnoun
(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
Kernelnoun
(botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
Kernelnoun
The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
Kernelnoun
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
Kernelnoun
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
Kernelnoun
(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
Kernelnoun
(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
Kernelnoun
(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
Kernelnoun
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}.
Kernelnoun
For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
Kernelnoun
The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
Kernelnoun
(slang) The human clitoris.
Kernelnoun
(chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
Kernelnoun
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.
Kernelnoun
A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
Kernelnoun
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
Kernelnoun
The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
Kernelverb
To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Kernelnoun
the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;
Kernelnoun
a single whole grain of a cereal;
Kernelnoun
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
Kernelnoun
a softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell
Kernelnoun
the seed and hard husk of a cereal, especially wheat
Kernelnoun
the central or most important part of something
Kernelnoun
the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management, and security.
Kernelnoun
denoting a basic unmarked linguistic string.
