Seed vs. Kernel

Difference Between Seed and Kernel

Seednoun

A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

Seeds considered as a group

a farmer buying seed.

Kernelnoun

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).

Seednoun

The seed-bearing stage of a plant

The grass is in seed.

Kernelnoun

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

detected a kernel of anger in his remarks.

Seednoun

A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish

released scallop seed in the bay.

Kernelnoun

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

the kernel of an argument

Seednoun

An egg or cocoon of certain insects

silkworm seed.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

(Medicine) A form of a radioactive isotope that is used to localize and concentrate the amount of radiation administered to a body site, such as a tumor.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

A source or beginning; a germ

the seed of an idea.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

A small amount of material used to start a chemical reaction.

Kernelnoun

(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.

Seednoun

A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

A cell that disperses, especially a cancer cell that spreads from a primary tumor to another location in the body.

Kernelnoun

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

The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.

Seednoun

Offspring; progeny.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

Family stock; ancestry.

Kernelnoun

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.

Seednoun

Sperm; semen.

Kernelnoun

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

Seednoun

(Sports) A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank

a top seed.

Kernelnoun

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

Seedverb

To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.

Kernelnoun

(slang) The human clitoris.

Seedverb

To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.

Kernelnoun

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

Seedverb

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

Kernelnoun

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

Seedverb

To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development

a bioreactor seeded with bacteria.

Kernelnoun

a single whole grain of a cereal;

a kernel of corn

Seedverb

To disperse to, as cancer cells

organs seeded by circulating tumor cells.

Kernelnoun

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

the gist of the prosecutor's argumentthe heart and soul of the Republican Partythe nub of the story

Seedverb

To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example)

a needle biopsy that seeded cancer cells into adjacent tissue.seed stem cells onto collagen gels.

Seedverb

(Meteorology) To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.

Seedverb

To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.

Seedverb

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

Seedverb

To help (a business, for example) in its early development.

Seedverb

To sow seed.

Seedverb

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

Seedverb

(Medicine) To disperse and often multiply, as cancer cells.

Seedadjective

Set aside for planting a new crop

seed corn.seed potatoes.

Seedadjective

Intended to help in early stages

provided seed capital for a fledgling business.

Seednoun

(countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.

If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

Seednoun

A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Seednoun

(uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.

The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

Seednoun

(uncountable) Semen.

A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

Seednoun

A precursor.

the seed of an idea; which idea was the seed (idea)?

Seednoun

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

Seednoun

The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)

The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

Seednoun

The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)

The rookie was a surprising top seed.

Seednoun

Initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)

If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

Seednoun

Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)

The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.

Seednoun

Offspring, descendants, progeny.

the seed of Abraham

Seednoun

Race; generation; birth.

Seednoun

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Seedverb

(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.

I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

Seedverb

(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Seedverb

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.

A venture capitalist seeds young companies.The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.