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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

  1. noun The central or most essential part of something.
  2. noun The hard central part of certain fruits, containing the seeds.
  3. adj Forming the most important or fundamental part of something.
  4. verb To remove the core from a piece of fruit.

kernel — full definition

  1. noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
  2. noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
  3. noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.

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