KERNEL Synonyms

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

• the center of an object

• the central part of the Earth

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories

• the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

• a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

• remove the core or center from

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

• the locus of feelings and intuitions

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• the courage to carry on

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines

• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)

• a positive feeling of liking

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it

• the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the idea that is intended

• material of a particular kind or constitution

• considerable capital (wealth or income)

• content communicating a message; what something is about

• the property of holding together and retaining its shape

• a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties

• in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• serving as an essential component

• a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

• the positively charged dense center of an atom

• a small group of indispensable persons or things

• (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

• any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

• the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the most important point

• a small conspicuous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus

• the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food

• the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region

• a low-lying region in central France

• a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure

• a place where some particular activity is concentrated

• the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the object upon which interest and attention focuses

• a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process

• a building dedicated to a particular activity

• move into the center

• direct one's attention on something

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values

• the quality or state of being inward or internal

• preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)

• the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones

• any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

• very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones

• large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• a small lump or protuberance

• a small piece

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• remove the pith from (a plant)

• a quantity of money

• a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers

• the final aggregate

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• the whole amount

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• be a summary of

• determine the sum of

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• with complete faith