What is the difference between grain and kernel?
grain | kernel |
(uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley.
(uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, eg buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
(countable) A single seed of grain.
(countable, uncountable) The crops from which grain is harvested.
(uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
(countable) A single particle of a substance.
(countable) A very small unit of weight, in England equal to 1/480 of an ounce troy, 0.0648 grams or, to be more exact, 64.79891 milligrams (0.002285714 avoirdupois ounce). A carat grain or pearl grain is 1/4 carat or 50 milligrams. The old French grain was 1/9216 livre or 53.11 milligrams, and in the mesures usuelles permitted from 1812 to 1839, with the livre redefined as 500 grams, it was 54.25 milligrams.
(countable) A former unit of gold purity, also known as carat grain , equal to "carat" (karat).
(materials) A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.
* Milton
* Quoted by Coleridge, preface to Aids to Reflection
The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.
(in the plural) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called
(botany) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.
Temper; natural disposition; inclination.
* Hayward
To feed grain to.
To make granular; to form into grains.
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
(tanning) To remove the hair or fat from a skin.
(tanning) To soften leather.
To yield fruit.
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant.
A tine, prong, or fork.
# One of the branches of a valley or river.
# An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
#* 1770 : Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains'' — journal of Stephen Forwood (gunner on ), 4 May 1770, quoted by Parkin (page 195).
# A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
(founding) A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
(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.
(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, algebra) Those elements, in the domain of a function, which the function maps to zero.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between grain and kernel
is that grain is the harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley while kernel is the core, center, or essence of an object or system.As a verb grain
is to feed grain to.grain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grain, grein, from (etyl) . Compare English corn.Noun
- We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
- a grain of wheat
- The fields were planted with grain .
- Cut along the grain of the wood.
- a grain of sand
- a grain of salt
- all in a robe of darkest grain
- doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain .
- (Knight)
- brothers not united in grain
Derived terms
* against the grain * grain of saltSee also
* cerealVerb
(en verb)- (Gower)
Etymology 2
See .Noun
(en noun)External links
* *Anagrams
* ----kernel
English
Noun
(en noun)- the kernel of an argument
- The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
- If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
- 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 .