| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Kern.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb kern.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (kern) | 1. Furnish with a kern.[Wordnet]. 2. Remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters).[Wordnet]. 3. To form with a kern.[Websters]. 4. To harden, as corn in ripening.[Websters]. 5. To take the form of kernels; to granulate.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: kerning, kerned, kerns, kerner, kerners, kerningly and kernedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Having part of the face projecting beyond the body or shank; -- said of type.[Websters]
2. Being jagged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being tongued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being projected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being corbelled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being throated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being ridged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being crested or plumed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being hobnailed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being toothed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "KERNED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: kern
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] An Irish footman or foot-soldier.. | 2: [Noun] In English laws, an idle person or vagabond.. | 3: [Noun] A hand-mill consisting of two stones, one of which is turned by the hand; usually written quern, which see.. | 4: [Noun] A churn.. | 5: [Verb] To harden, as corn in ripening.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Geography | Kern is geographically located in Austria. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 47.416667 degrees North latitude and 13.3 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Publishing & Graphic Arts | Any part of the face that extends over the side of the type, often found on letters F and J. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Technology | The portion of the face of a unit of type that extends beyond the edge of its body to overlap an adjacent character (example: the lowercase italic f in many typefaces). Kerning is also refers to the practice in typesetting of backspacing to tuck one character into another to avoid the appearance of irregular spacing in a line. Pairs of letters close-fitted in this way include AT, AV, Ta, Wa, etc. The term is also used in typesetting for the practice of reducing the space between characters to make copy fit a given line length. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; often used as a term of contempt. Quotation c.1599: "O, then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers." — Henry V: Ac.3 Sc7, Wm. Shakespeare. (references) | 2: [Noun] In hot-metal printing, a kern is any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter. (references) | 3: [Verb] (intransitive) To perform a kerning adjustment. (references) | 4: [Verb] (transitive) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs), particularly in a proportional font (printing). (references) |
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Common Expressions: kern
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Anna Kern | Anna Kern was a SS overseer at a concentration camp during World War II. (references) | ||
| Cache Creek, Kern County, California | Cache Creek is a dry wash which carries flashfloods from Tehachapi, California, USA into the Mojave desert during infrequent rains. A small settlement where the dry wash enters the desert is also known as Cache Creek. Cache Creek settlement is located at the intersection of Randsburg Cutoff and California State Highway 58. (references) | ||
| David J. Kern | David Kern, an officer of the United States Navy, was the first commanding officer of USS Virginia (SSN-774). (references) | ||
| Jerome David Kern | United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jerome Kern | United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Jim Kern | James Lester Kern (born March 15 1949 Gladwin, Michigan - ) was a pitcher with a 13 year career from 1974 to 1986. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers all of the American League and the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies both of the National League. (references) | ||
| Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern | Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (April 6, 1833-July 7, 1917) was a Dutch linguist. (references) | ||
| John W. Kern | John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 - August 17, 1917) was a U.S. Democratic politician from Indiana. Born in Alto, Indiana, Kern studied law at the University of Michigan. He began to practice law in Kokomo, Indiana, where he served as city attorney (1871-1884). He was elected to the Indiana state senate in 1893, serving for four years, serving at the same time as assistant U.S. Attorney for Indiana. From 1897 to 1901 he was city solicitor of Indianapolis, and was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1900 and 1904. In 1908, he was the Democratic vice presidential candidate on William Jennings Bryan's third run for the presidency. In 1910, he was elected to the United States Senate. He was defeated for reelection in 1916, and died soon after in Asheville, North Carolina. (references) | ||
| Kern Canyon slender salamander | The Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus) is a plethodontid salamander similar to the Tehachapi slender salamander. It is considered a threatened species in California, and is found only in the forested regions of the southern Sierra Nevada range south of the Lower Kern River. Much of the salamander's habitat is in the Sequoia National Forest between Bakersfield and Lake Isabella. (references) | ||
| Kern River | The Kern River is a river in eastern California in the United States, approximately 155 mi (249 km) long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield. Fed by snowmelt near Mount Whitney, the river passes through scenic canyons in the mountains and is a popular destination for whitewater rafting and kayaking. It formerly emptied into the now-dry Buena Vista Lake at the southern end of the Central Valley, but it is now entirely diverted for irrigation leaving it with no natural outlet. (references) | ||
| Otto Kern | Otto Kern (February 14, 1863 - January 31, 1942) was a German linguist and former professor of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. From 1922 to 1934 was one of the two chairmen of the Society of Friends of the University of Hamburg. He originally studied classical philology and archaeology at the Universities of Berlin and Goettingen and attained a doctorate of philosophy in 1888. (references) | ||
| Wonder Acres, Kern County, California | Wonder Acres is a settlement in Kern County, California, USA, 4 miles (6 km) east of Cache Creek, at the intersection of California State Highway 14 and California City Blvd. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: KERNED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Kerned stone | Mining | Corn. Sand blown off the seashore into the country and concreted there. (references) | |
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