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Kernel vs. Stone — What's the Difference?

Kernel vs. Stone — What's the Difference?

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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

Stone

Hard solid non-metallic mineral matter of which rock is made, especially as a building material
The houses are built of stone
High stone walls

Kernel

The central or most important part of something
This is the kernel of the argument

Stone

A piece of stone shaped for a purpose, especially one of commemoration, ceremony, or demarcation
A memorial stone
Boundary stones

Kernel

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

A hard seed in a cherry, plum, peach, and some other fruits.

Kernel

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

Stone

A unit of weight equal to 14 lb (6.35 kg)
I weighed 10 stone

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).

Stone

A natural shade of whitish or brownish-grey
Stone stretch trousers

Kernel

A small amount of something, especially when potentially developing into something else
Detected a kernel of anger in his remarks.

Stone

Throw stones at
Two people were stoned to death
Policemen were stoned by the crowd

Kernel

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

Stone

Remove the stone from (a fruit).

Kernel

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

Stone

Build, face, or pave with stone
The honey-stoned, eighteenth-century city

Kernel

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

Stone

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

Kernel

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

Stone

Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination
Sandstone.
Soapstone.

Kernel

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

Stone

A small piece of rock.

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.

Stone

A piece of rock that is used in construction
A coping stone.
A paving stone.

Kernel

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

Stone

A gravestone or tombstone.

Kernel

(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.

Stone

A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.

Kernel

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

Stone

A milestone or boundary.

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.

Stone

A gem or precious stone.

Kernel

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

Stone

Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.

Kernel

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

Stone

(Botany) The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.

Kernel

(slang) The human clitoris.

Stone

(Medicine) A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.

Kernel

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

Stone

Pl. stone Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).

Kernel

To enclose within a kernel

Stone

(Printing) A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

Kernel

To crenellate

Stone

Relating to or made of stone
A stone wall.

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

Stone

Made of stoneware or earthenware.

Kernel

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

Stone

Complete; utter. Often used in combination
A stone liar.
Stone-deaf.

Kernel

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

Stone

Completely; utterly
Stone cold.
Standing stone still.

Kernel

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

Stone

To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.

Kernel

To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

Stone

To remove the stones or pits from.

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

Stone

To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.

Kernel

A single whole grain of a cereal;
A kernel of corn

Stone

To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

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

Stone

(Sports) To block a shot taken by (an opponent). Used of a goalie.

Stone

(Obsolete) To make hard or indifferent.

Stone

(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.

Stone

A small piece of stone, a pebble.

Stone

A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

Stone

(British) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds (≈6.3503 kilograms), formerly used for various commodities (wool, cheese, etc.), but now principally used for personal weight.

Stone

(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
A peach stone

Stone

(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.

Stone

(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon and go.

Stone

A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

Stone

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.

Stone

A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.

Stone

(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.

Stone

(obsolete) A testicle.

Stone

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing.

Stone

(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
She got stoned to death after they found her.

Stone

(transitive) To wall with stones.

Stone

(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).

Stone

(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.

Stone

To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. Usually in passive

Stone

To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.

Stone

(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities.

Stone

Constructed of stone.
Stone walls

Stone

Having the appearance of stone.
Stone pot

Stone

Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.

Stone

(AAVE) Used as an intensifier.
She is one stone fox.

Stone

(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it.
Stone butch; stone femme
Pillow princess

Stone

As a stone used with following adjective.
My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.

Stone

(slang) Absolutely, completely used with following adjectives.
I went stone crazy after she left.
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.

Stone

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
They had brick for stone, and slime . . . for mortar.

Stone

A precious stone; a gem.

Stone

Something made of stone. Specifically: -

Stone

The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
Lend me a looking-glass;If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,Why, then she lives.

Stone

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

Stone

A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
Should some relenting eyeGlance on the where our cold relics lie.

Stone

One of the testes; a testicle.

Stone

The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

Stone

A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.

Stone

Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
I have not yet forgot myself to stone.

Stone

A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; - called also imposing stone.

Stone

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Stone

To make like stone; to harden.
O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.

Stone

To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

Stone

To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

Stone

To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Stone

A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter;
He threw a rock at me

Stone

Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust;
That mountain is solid rock
Stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries

Stone

Building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose;
He wanted a special stone to mark the site

Stone

A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
He had the gem set in a ring for his wife
She had jewels made of all the rarest stones

Stone

The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed;
You should remove the stones from prunes before cooking

Stone

An avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds;
A heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone

Stone

United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

Stone

United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893)

Stone

United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989)

Stone

United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as Chief Justice (1872-1946)

Stone

United States architect (1902-1978)

Stone

A lack of feeling or expression or movement;
He must have a heart of stone
Her face was as hard as stone

Stone

Kill by throwing stones at;
Adulterers should be stoned according to the Koran

Stone

Remove the pits from;
Pit plums and cherries

Stone

Of any of various dull tannish-gray colors

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