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Kernel vs Rind - What's the difference?

kernel | rind |

As nouns the difference between kernel and rind

is that kernel is the core, center, or essence of an object or system while rind is tree bark or rind can be an iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.

As a verb rind is

to remove the rind from.

kernel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
  • the kernel of an argument
  • 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.
  • The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
  • (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.
  • If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
  • (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.
  • * 2014 , Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al'', ''Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
  • 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 .

    Antonyms

    * (computing) userland * (algebra) support

    Meronyms

    * (algebra) root, zero

    Derived terms

    * cokernel * kernel function * kernel hacker * kernel of truth * kernel space * kernelization

    rind

    English

    (wikipedia rind)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rind?. Cognate with (etyl) Rinde.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • tree bark
  • A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sweetest nut hath sourest rind .
  • * Milton
  • Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
  • The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind "
  • * 1939 , Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance , London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
  • Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
  • * 1940 , Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941 , published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p. 99:
  • April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This , when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]
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  • * 2010 , (David Stubbs), Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010 , O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p. 12:
  • [About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
    Derived terms
    * immortal rind * pork rind
    See also
    * peel * skin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the rind from.
  • Etymology 2

    Cognate with Flemish (rijne), Low German ryn.

    Alternative forms

    * rynd * rine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill
  • Anagrams

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