Kernel vs. Shell — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Kernel and Shell
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Kernel
A softer, usually edible part of a nut, seed, or fruit stone contained within its shell
The kernel of a walnut
Pine kernels
Shell
The hard protective outer case of a mollusc or crustacean
Cowrie shells
The technique of carving shell
Kernel
The central or most important part of something
This is the kernel of the argument
Shell
An explosive artillery projectile or bomb
Shell holes
The sound of the shell passing over, followed by the explosion
Kernel
A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.
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Shell
Something resembling or likened to a shell because of its shape or its function as an outer case
Baked pastry shells filled with cheese
Pasta shells
Kernel
The usually edible seed inside the hard covering of a nut or fruit stone.
Shell
The metal framework of a vehicle body.
Kernel
The central or most important part; the core
"The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services" (Sinclair Lewis).
Shell
A light racing boat.
Kernel
A small amount of something, especially when potentially developing into something else
Detected a kernel of anger in his remarks.
Shell
An inner or roughly made coffin.
Kernel
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
The kernel of an argument
Shell
The hand guard of a sword.
Kernel
(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
Shell
Each of a set of orbitals around the nucleus of an atom, occupied or able to be occupied by electrons of similar energies
In a multi-electron atom, the lowest energy shells fill up first
An electron descending from one shell to a lower one emits an X-ray
Kernel
(botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
Shell
Short for shell program
Kernel
The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
Shell
Bombard with shells
Several villages north of the security zone were shelled
Kernel
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
Shell
Remove the shell or pod from (a nut or seed)
They were shelling peas
Shelled Brazil nuts
Kernel
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
The Linux kernel is open-source.
Shell
The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as insects, turtles, and most mollusks.
Kernel
(computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
Shell
A similar outer covering on a nut or seed.
Kernel
(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
Shell
A similar outer covering on certain eggs, such as those of birds and reptiles; an eggshell.
Kernel
(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
Shell
The material that constitutes such a covering.
Kernel
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}.
If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
Shell
An external, usually hard, protective or enclosing case or cover.
Kernel
For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
Shell
A framework or exterior, as of a building.
Kernel
The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
Shell
A thin layer of pastry.
Kernel
(slang) The human clitoris.
Shell
The external part of the ear.
Kernel
(chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
Shell
The hull of a ship.
Kernel
To enclose within a kernel
Shell
A light, long, narrow racing boat propelled by rowers.
Kernel
To crenellate
Shell
A small glass for beer.
Kernel
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.
'A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel
Shell
An artillery projectile containing an explosive charge.
Kernel
A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
Shell
A metal or cardboard case containing the charge and primer for a piece of firearms ammunition, especially one also containing shot and fired from a shotgun.
Kernel
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
Shell
An attitude or a manner adopted to mask one's true feelings or to protect one from perceived or real danger
Embarrassed, she withdrew into a shell.
Kernel
The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
Shell
A set of electron orbitals having nearly the same energy and sharing the same first quantum number.
Kernel
To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Shell
Any of the stable states of other particles or collections of particles (such as the nucleons in an atomic nucleus) at a given energy or small range of energies.
Kernel
The inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone;
Black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell
Shell
A usually sleeveless and collarless, typically knit blouse.
Kernel
A single whole grain of a cereal;
A kernel of corn
Shell
A thin, usually waterproof or windproof outer garment for the upper body.
Kernel
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
Shell
(Computers) A program that works with the operating system as a command processor, used to enter commands and initiate their execution.
Shell
A company or corporation created by a second company or corporation for the purposes of facilitating a particular transaction, especially one that is intended to be concealed.
Shell
To remove the shell of; shuck
Shell oysters.
Shell
To remove from a shell
Shell peas.
Shell
To separate the kernels of (corn) from the cob.
Shell
To fire shells at; bombard.
Shell
To defeat decisively.
Shell
(Baseball) To hit the pitches of (a pitcher) hard and with regularity
Shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning.
Shell
To shed or become free of a shell.
Shell
To look for or collect shells, as on a seashore
Spent the day shelling on Cape Cod.
Shell
A hard external covering of an animal.
Shell
The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.
Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.
Shell
(by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
Shell
(entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
Shell
The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
Shell
The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
Shell
The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
Shell
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.
Shell
(botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
Shell
The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
Shell
A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
Shell
(in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
Shell
(geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
Shell
(weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
Shell
(weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
Shell
(weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
Shell
(architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
Shell
A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
Shell
A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
Shell
(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
Shell
(music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
Shell
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shell
The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
Shell
(nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shell
(nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
Shell
(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
Shell
(figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
Shell
(figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
The setback left him a mere shell; he was never the same again.
Shell
An emaciated person.
He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.
Shell
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.
Shell
(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
Shell
(business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.
Shell
A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
Shell
(engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
Shell
(phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
Shell
A person's ear.
Can I have a quick word in your shell?
Shell
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
Shell
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
The guns shelled the enemy trenches.
Shell
(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
Shell
(intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shell
(intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
Nuts shell in falling.
Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
Shell
To switch to a shell or command line.
Shell
To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
Shell
(topology) To form a shelling.
Shell
A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
Think him as a serpent's egg, . . .And kill him in the shell.
Shell
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
Shell
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse or by percussion, by means of which the projectile is burst and its fragments scattered. See Bomb.
Shell
The case which holds the powder, or charge of powder and shot, used with breechloading small arms.
Shell
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house.
Shell
A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one.
Shell
An instrument of music, as a lyre, - the first lyre having been made, it is said, by drawing strings over a tortoise shell.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Shell
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
Shell
The husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is often used as a substitute for chocolate, cocoa, etc.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Shell
A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood or with paper; as, a racing shell.
Shell
Something similar in form or action to an ordnance shell;
Shell
A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
Shell
A gouge bit or shell bit.
Shell
To strip or break off the shell of; to take out of the shell, pod, etc.; as, to shell nuts or pease; to shell oysters.
Shell
To separate the kernels of (an ear of Indian corn, wheat, oats, etc.) from the cob, ear, or husk.
Shell
To throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town.
Shell
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
Shell
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk; as, nuts shell in falling.
Shell
To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.
Shell
Ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
Shell
The material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
Shell
Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
Shell
The hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
Shell
The exterior covering of a bird's egg
Shell
A rigid covering that envelops an object;
The satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice
Shell
A very light narrow racing boat
Shell
The housing or outer covering of something;
The clock has a walnut case
Shell
A metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
Shell
The hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc
Shell
Use explosives on;
The enemy has been shelling us all day
Shell
Fall out of the pod or husk;
The corn shelled
Shell
Hit the pitches of hard and regularly;
He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning
Shell
Look for and collect shells by the seashore
Shell
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict;
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
We beat the competition
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Shell
Remove from its shell or outer covering;
Shell the legumes
Shell mussels
Shell
Remove the husks from;
Husk corn
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