| kin | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous |
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| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe |
| (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kinsperson |
| kina | (noun) the basic unit of money in Papua New Guinea | - |
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| kinaesthesia | (noun) the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc | Synonyms: feeling of movement, kinesthesia |
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| (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
| kinaesthesis | (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
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| kinaesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinesthetic |
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| kinaesthetically | (adverb) in a kinesthetic manner; by means of kinesthesia | Synonyms: kinesthetically |
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| kinanesthesia | (noun) inability to sense movement | - |
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| kinase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme | - |
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| kind | (adjective) having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior | - |
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| (adjective) tolerant and forgiving under provocation | Synonyms: tolerant |
| (adjective) agreeable, conducive to comfort | Synonyms: genial |
| (noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: form, sort, variety |
| kinda | (adverb) to some (great or small) extent | Synonyms: kind of, rather, sort of |
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| kindergarten | (noun) a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school | - |
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| kindergartener | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartner, preschooler |
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| kindergartner | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, preschooler |
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| kindhearted | (adjective) having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition | Synonyms: kind-hearted |
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| kindheartedness | (noun) sympathy arising from a kind heart | Synonyms: kind-heartedness |
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| kindjal | (noun) a kind of short sword or dagger with a slightly curved blade, probably originated in Chechnya. | - |
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| kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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| (verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
| (verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
| kindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, ignited |
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| kindliness | (noun) friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition | Synonyms: helpfulness |
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| kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| (adverb) in a kind manner or out of kindness | - |
| kindness | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: benignity |
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| (noun) the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic | - |
| (noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: forgivingness |
| kindred | (adjective) related by blood or marriage | - |
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| (adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: akin |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe |
| kine | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cattle, cows, oxen |
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| kinematics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass | - |
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| kinescope | (noun) a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen | Synonyms: picture tube, television tube |
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| kinesiology | (noun) the branch of physiology that studies the mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement | - |
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| kinesis | (noun) a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation | - |
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| kinesthesia | (noun) the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc | Synonyms: feeling of movement, kinaesthesia |
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| (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
| kinesthesis | (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement |
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| kinesthetic | (adjective) of or relating to kinesthesis | Synonyms: kinaesthetic |
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| kinesthetically | (adverb) in a kinesthetic manner; by means of kinesthesia | Synonyms: kinaesthetically |
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| kinesthetics | (noun) the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body | Synonyms: kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, muscle sense, sense of movement |
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| kinetic | (adjective) relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith | - |
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| (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energising, energizing |
| (adjective) characterized by motion | - |
| kinetics | (noun) the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies | Synonyms: dynamics |
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| kinetochore | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: centromere |
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| kinetosis | (noun) the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle | Synonyms: motion sickness |
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| kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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| king | (noun) (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | - |
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| (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king | - |
| (noun) a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward | - |
| (noun) a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom | Synonyms: male monarch, Rex |
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) a male competitor who holds a preeminent position | - |
| (noun) the husband or widower of a queen | - |
| (noun) preeminence in a particular category or group or field | - |
| kingbird | (noun) large American flycatcher | Synonyms: Tyrannus tyrannus |
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| kingbolt | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingpin, swivel pin |
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| kingcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, cowslip, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| kingdom | (noun) a basic group of natural objects | - |
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| (noun) a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state | - |
| (noun) the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia | - |
| (noun) the domain ruled by a king or queen | Synonyms: realm |
| (noun) a country with a king as head of state | - |
| (noun) a domain in which something is dominant | Synonyms: land, realm |
| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kingfisher | (noun) nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish | - |
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| kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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| kinglike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kingly |
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| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| kingpin | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingbolt, swivel pin |
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| (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: headpin |
| (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: bigwig, top banana |
| kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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| kingwood | (noun) Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | Synonyms: Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree |
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| (noun) handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork | - |
| kinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: cytokinin |
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| kink | (noun) a difficulty or flaw in a plan or operation | - |
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| (noun) an eccentric idea | - |
| (noun) a person with unusual sexual tastes | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: twirl, twist |
| (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, rick, wrick |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, curve |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink up |
| kinkajou | (noun) a kind of gray-brown lemur (Perodicticus potto) | Synonyms: Perodicticus potto, potto |
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| (noun) arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail | Synonyms: honey bear, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto |
| kinky | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: perverted |
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| (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, nappy |
| (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, offbeat, quirky, way-out |
| kino | (noun) East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning | Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium |
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| (noun) a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning | Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum |
| kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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| kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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| (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |
| kinsman | (noun) a male relative | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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