miolo — meaning in English
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English meaning
- core noun The central or most essential part of something.
- kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
- marrow noun The soft, fatty tissue inside bones that produces blood cells.
- pith noun The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
Senses
miolo is used for these senses in English:
- core The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- core (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- kernel (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- kernel (mathematics, algebra, loosely, of a morphism f between algebraic structures) The set of elements of the domain of f which are mapped to an identity element.
- marrow (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- pith (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of a loaf of bread.
core — full definition
- noun The central or most essential part of something.
- noun The hard central part of certain fruits, containing the seeds.
- adj Forming the most important or fundamental part of something.
- verb To remove the core from a piece of fruit.
kernel — full definition
- noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
- noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
- noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.