Kennel vs. Kernel — What's the Difference?

A kennel is a structure or shelter for dogs or cats. Used in the plural, the kennels, the term means any building, collection of buildings or a property in which dogs or cats are housed, maintained, and (though not in all cases) bred.

A softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell

A shelter for a dog.

The central or most important part of something

A pack of dogs, especially hounds.

A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.

An establishment where dogs are bred, trained, or boarded.

The usually edible seed inside the hard covering of a nut or fruit stone.

The lair of a wild animal, such as a fox.

The central or most important part; the core

A gutter along a street.

A small amount of something, especially when potentially developing into something else

To place or keep in or as if in a kennel.

The core, center, or essence of an object or system.

To take cover or lie in or as if in a kennel.

(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.

A house or shelter for a dog.

(botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.

A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.

The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.

The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

The hole of a fox or other animal.

(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

(obsolete) The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.

(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.

(obsolete) A puddle.

(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.

(transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.

(intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

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}.

(transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.

The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).

A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.

(slang) The human clitoris.

A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs.

(chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.

The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.

To enclose within a kernel

To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

To crenellate

To put or keep in a kennel.

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.

Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog

A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.

Put up in a kennel;

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.

To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;

A single whole grain of a cereal;

The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;