kern

FREQ #21330

n. 核, 颗粒, 仁 vt.vi. 结果实 [计] 出格字母, 出格部分, 压缩字距

发音

UK /kɜːn/
其它
US /kɝn/

词形变化

kerns 复数 kerned kerning kerns 三单 kerns kerning 现在分词 kerned 过去式 kerned 过去分词

别名

kirn curn kerne

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A corn; grain; kernel.

    可数 方言 废旧 不可数
  2. 2.

    The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.

    可数 方言 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    The harvest home.

    可数 方言 废旧 不可数
  4. 4.

    A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.

    可数 方言 废旧 不可数
  5. 1.

    Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.

    媒体 印刷
  6. 1.

    A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.

    古体 历史
  7. 2.

    A boor; a low person.

    爱尔兰 废旧
  8. 3.

    An idler; a vagabond.

    英国 废旧
  9. 1.

    Alternative form of quern.

  10. 1.

    A churn.

v.
  1. 1.

    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.

    媒体 印刷

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

type
动词

上位词 8

offer waste remove provide supply render furnish get rid of

相关短语

Kern County kern supper kern suppers churn supper

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary