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4-letter words (3 found)

KERN,NERK,RENK,

3-letter words (5 found)

ERK,ERN,KEN,NEK,REN,

2-letter words (4 found)

EN,ER,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 13 words from kern according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of kern

kern ekrn kren rken erkn rekn kenr eknr kner nker enkr nekr krne rkne knre nkre rnke nrke ernk renk enrk nerk rnek nrek

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word kern. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in kern.

Definitions and meaning of kern

kern

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kɝn/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.

Alternative forms

  • kirn, curn (Scotland)

Noun

kern (countable and uncountable, plural kerns)

  1. (obsolete or dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
  2. (obsolete or dialect) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
  3. (obsolete or dialect) The harvest home.
  4. (obsolete or dialect) A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
Derived terms
  • kern-baby
Related terms
  • kernel

Etymology 2

From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.

Alternative forms

  • kerne

Noun

kern (plural kerns)

  2. (hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.

Verb

kern (third-person singular simple present kerns, present participle kerning, simple past and past participle kerned)

  1. (typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
Derived terms
  • kern pair
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern. Doublet of quaternion.

Alternative forms

  • kerne

Noun

kern (plural kerns)

  1. (archaic or historical) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
  2. (obsolete or Ireland) A boor; a low person.
  3. (obsolete, UK) An idler; a vagabond.

Etymology 4

Noun

kern (plural kerns)

  1. Alternative form of quern

Etymology 5

Noun

kern (plural kerns)

  1. A churn.

References

Anagrams

  • Renk, nerk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kerne, from Old Dutch *kerno, from Proto-Germanic *kernô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-n-on-, *ǵr̥h₂nóm, related to *kurną (“corn, grain”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛrn/
  • Hyphenation: kern
  • Rhymes: -ɛrn

Noun

kern f (plural kernen, diminutive kerntje n)

  1. nucleus, physical core
  2. (physics) nucleus (of an atom)
  3. (physics, in compounds) nuclear -
    Synonyms: nucleair, atoom-
  4. (geology, astronomy) core (of the Earth, or any other celestial body)
  5. the essence, core, crux of something
  6. (mathematics) kernel (of a function)
    • 1976, "Het eindexamen wiskunde II 1976", in Euclides. Maandblad voor de didactiek van de wiskunde. Orgaan van de Nederlandse Vereniging van Wiskundeleraren, vol. 52, issue 7, Wolters-Noordhoff, 274.
      Te bewijzen: er bestaat een k waarvoor beeldruimte en kern van Ak samenvallen.
      To be demonstrated: a k exists for which the image space and kernel of Ak coincide.
    • 2005, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Vakantiecursus 2005. De schijf van vijf, 55.
  7. settlement, built-up area.
  8. (politics, Suriname) party cell; group of activists of a political party at neighbourhood or village level

Derived terms

References

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kurnan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 285

French

Etymology

From Dutch kernkabinet (“core cabinet”).

Noun

kern m (plural kerns)

  1. (Belgium; with indefinite article) A committee of senior politicians; select committee
    • Ce mercredi, un kern ministériel devrait acter définitivement la possibilité pour les jeunes de 12-15 ans de se faire vacciner contre le coronavirus en Belgique. [1]
  2. (Belgium; with definite article and/or capitalised) The cabinet consisting of the Prime Minister of Belgium and their deputies
    • Le Premier ministre est, en premier lieu, le chef du gouvernement. Cela implique qu'il préside le Conseil des ministres et le cabinet ministériel restreint (le "kern"), qu'il se concerte avec ses ministres et secrétaires d'État, qu'il examine leurs dossiers et recherche des solutions en cas de problèmes. [2]

Synonyms

  • conseil des ministres restreint
  • kern ministriel

Further reading

Conseil des ministres restreint on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish ceithern (“band or troop of soldiers or fighting men”).

Noun

kern m (genitive singular kern, plural kernyn)

  1. (military) soldier, infantryman, yeoman
  2. (chess) pawn

Synonyms

  • (soldier, pawn): sidoor

Mutation

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ceithern”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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