egg vs kernel

egg

noun
  • Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell. 

  • A foolish or obnoxious person. 

  • A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg. 

  • A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender. 

  • A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia. 

  • A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury. 

  • A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg. 

  • The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food. 

  • An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. 

  • One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes". 

  • Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes. 

  • A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). 

verb
  • To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape. 

  • To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something). 

  • To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish. 

  • To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds. 

  • To encourage, incite, or urge (someone). 

kernel

noun
  • The human clitoris. 

  • The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons. 

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

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

  • A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat. 

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

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

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

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

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

  • A function used to define an integral transform. 

  • The core engine of any complex software system. 

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

  • 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}. 

verb
  • To enclose within a kernel 

  • To crenellate 

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