Kennel, Kernel

“I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another.

I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.” –Scott Frederick Turow

Kennel is the dog’s shelter, or a doghouse.

Like a house or home for human beings, kennel is the place for dogs but made by their masters or mistresses.

Kennel also functions as a verb: put a dog in a kennel. Some dog owners hire caretakers for dogs who can also kennel them. Otherwise, dogs have to be kenneled by their owners.

Some avoid raising dogs because they do not have space to make a kennel.

Maintaining a kennel requires time, energy, money and effort.

“The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never required a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped.

Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.” –W C Fields

Kennel coal or cannel coal is a type of coal known for its high volatile content, and for its smoky luminous flame (like a candle).

Kernel has two distinct meanings: one refers to a seed in a plant and another to something important.
Kernel is part of a fruit that is edible.

Kernel is the edible part of a nut, seed, grain, fruit, fruit stone enclosed in a shell.

Botanically, the seed of sunflower is called kernel.

A kernel of corn plucked fresh from a field tastes great, and good unlike when it was refined.

Kernel also refers to something that is most important.

The kernel of concern is climate change for the global community.

Kernel means the essence of something, core, quintessence, fundamental, basic, pith, crux.

Kernel refers to something that is vital, important, core.

Kernels of imagination for creative persons in the creative field often comes from mundane or quotidian aspects of life.

Kernel is derived from Old English’s cyrnel which is a diminutive of corn seed and in Old Norse it is kjarni.

Kennel corn is the frozen or canned maize.

Kernel of truth is an idiom: is there a kernel of truth in climate change? Yes, the world is feeling it: erratic rain patterns!

By: Kovuuri G Reddy