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单词 kerne
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
kern1  (kûrn),USA pronunciation [Print.]
n. 
    1. Printinga part of the face of a type projecting beyond the body or shank, as in certain italic letters.

    v.t. 
    1. Printingto form or furnish with a kern, as a type or letter.
    2. Printingto remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) in preparation for printing.
    • French carne corner of type Latin cardin- (stem of cardō) hinge
    • 1675–85

kern2  (kûrn),USA pronunciation n. [Engin.]
  1. Civil Engineeringthe central area of any horizontal section of a wall, column, etc., within which the resultant forces of all compressive loads must pass if there is to be only compression at that point.
  • German Kern kernel; see kern4

kern3  (kûrn),USA pronunciation n. [Archaic.]
  1. British Termsa band of lightly armed foot soldiers of ancient Ireland.
  2. British Terms(in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands) a soldier.
  3. British Termsan Irish peasant, esp. a crude or boorish one.
Also, kerne. 
  • Irish ceithern band of foot soldiers; compare cateran
  • Middle English kerne 1325–75

kern4  (kûrn),USA pronunciation [Brit. Dial.]
v.i. 
    1. Botany, British Terms(of a tree or plant) to produce or form kernels, hard grain, or seed.

    v.t. 
    1. British Termsto cause to granulate, esp. to granulate salt.
    2. British Termsto cover with crystalline grains of salt;
      salt (meat).

    n. 
    1. British Terms[Obs.]a kernel, as of a nut;
      a grain, as of sand or wheat.
    • 1275–1325; Middle English kirnen, kerne (verb, verbal); akin to kirnelen to develop into seed; see kernel

kern5  (kûrn),USA pronunciation v.t., v.i., n. [Scot. and North Eng.]
  1. Scottish Termschurn.

kern6  (kûrn),USA pronunciation n. [Scot. and North Eng.]
  1. Scottish Termskirn2.

Kern  (kûrn),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Jerome (David), 1885–1945, U.S. composer.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
kern, kerne /kɜːn/ n
  1. the part of the character on a piece of printer's type that projects beyond the body
Etymology: 17th Century: from French carne corner of type, projecting angle, ultimately from Latin cardō hinge
kern /kɜːn/ n
  1. a lightly armed foot soldier in medieval Ireland or Scotland
  2. archaic a loutish peasant
Etymology: 14th Century: from Middle Irish cethern band of foot soldiers, from cath battle
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