📖 K — The English dictionary

kabbalah — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The Jewish tradition of mystical teaching about God, creation and the hidden meaning of the Torah.↗ Example: Thus Gedaliah Ibn Yahya, in his „Slialshelet ha-Kabbalah, says : (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · "He composed the Sefer Mechiltin, and the Sefer Yetzirah on Kabbalah.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

kabbalistic — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition.↗ Example: A similar view is reflected in the midrashicic and Kabbalistic literature, where Torah or Wisdom acts as a participant or instrument in the Work of Creation; see e.g. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · f About the Hebrew Kabbalistic origin of onr numerals see A. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In kabbalistic literature, not only tiie vowel letter y. but all the letters are considered images of angels.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

kaftan — Everyday, meaning 1: A kaftan is a long, loose robe with wide sleeves, worn in parts of the Middle East and Asia.↗ Example: The merchant wore a silk kaftan.↗ · Grandmother sewed a kaftan for the feast.↗ · This kaftan is a very fine one, said the old tailor.↗

kaiser — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) The title of the emperor of Germany from 1871 to 1918, and earlier of the emperors of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (the Kaiser) Usually means Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German emperor during the First World War.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US) A kaiser roll: a round, crusty bread roll.↗ Example: The Kaiser ruled Germany during the First World War.↗ · Kaiser Wilhelm II had a famous curled moustache.↗ · After the war ended in 1918, the Kaiser gave up his throne.↗ · The word «kaiser» comes from «Caesar».↗ · British soldiers sang songs mocking the Kaiser.↗ · In New York, Grandpa ate a kaiser roll with cheese.↗ · The tsar of Russia and the Kaiser of Germany were cousins.↗

kale — Everyday, meaning 1: Kale is a leafy green vegetable in the cabbage family, with curly or flat dark leaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland, old) Kail or kale was an old word for cabbage soup or for food in general.↗ Example: Mum put kale in the green smoothie.↗ · Curly kale grows well even in frost.↗ · We baked kale chips with a little oil and salt.↗ · Kale is in the same family as broccoli and cabbage.↗ · Dad bought a bunch of kale at the market.↗ · Caterpillars love munching our kale.↗

kamikaze — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) In the Second World War, Japanese pilots who flew planes full of explosives into enemy ships on purpose, dying in the attack; also their planes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Kamikaze describes something wildly reckless, as if you did not care about getting hurt: a kamikaze run down the hill.↗ Example: Kamikaze pilots attacked American ships near the end of the war.↗ · The word kamikaze means divine wind in Japanese.↗ · The cat made a kamikaze leap off the fridge.↗ · That was a kamikaze tackle, you could have got hurt.↗ · Many young kamikaze pilots were barely adults.↗ · The fly made kamikaze dives at the lamp.↗

kangaroo — Everyday, meaning 1: A kangaroo is a large Australian animal that hops on strong back legs, has a long thick tail, and carries its baby in a pouch.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kangaroo court is an unfair, unofficial trial.↗ Example: A kangaroo can hop very fast.↗ · The baby kangaroo, or joey, lives in its mother's pouch.↗ · We saw kangaroos in the bush in Australia.↗ · Kangaroos use their tails for balance.↗ · A group of kangaroos is called a mob.↗ · Kangaroos cannot walk backwards easily.↗ · The kangaroo is on Australia's coat of arms.↗

kansas — Everyday, meaning 1: Kansas is a state in the middle of the United States, famous for flat prairies, wheat farms and tornadoes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kansas City is the name of two cities next to each other, one in Kansas and a bigger one in Missouri.↗ Example: Kansas is in the middle of the United States.↗ · Dorothy lived on a farm in Kansas before the tornado.↗ · Kansas grows a lot of wheat.↗ · The capital of Kansas is Topeka, not Kansas City.↗ · Tornadoes often happen in Kansas in spring.↗ · My cousins live in Kansas City.↗ · When we arrived at the strange museum, Dad said, «We're not in Kansas anymore.»↗ · Kansas is very flat, so you can see storms coming from far away.↗

kaph — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which has two sounds, hard as "k" and soft as "kh".↗ Example: The Seven Double Letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, and Tau have each two sounds associated with theui.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Seven double letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pé, Resh, and Tau have each two sounds associated with them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · There were formed seven double letters, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, Kaph, Pe, Resh, Tau, each has two voices, either aspirated or softened.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

karaoke — Everyday, meaning 1: Karaoke is singing along to recorded music while the words of the song appear on a screen, for fun.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A karaoke machine or karaoke night is the equipment or event for this.↗ Example: We sang karaoke at my birthday party.↗ · Grandma loves karaoke nights.↗ · The karaoke machine shows the words on the TV.↗ · My dad sang a funny song at karaoke.↗ · Karaoke comes from Japan.↗ · Let's do karaoke after dinner!↗ · She was shy, but she sang at karaoke anyway.↗ · The words turned yellow on the karaoke screen as we sang.↗

karate — Everyday, meaning 1: A Japanese martial art and sport in which people fight using hands, feet, elbows and knees, with strikes, kicks and blocks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The skills and training of this sport, with coloured belts showing levels.↗ Example: I do karate on Tuesdays and Thursdays.↗ · She got her yellow belt in karate.↗ · Our karate teacher says respect comes first.↗ · He pretended to do a karate chop on the cardboard box.↗ · Karate came from Okinawa in Japan.↗ · You bow when you enter the karate hall.↗ · Karate is for self-defence, not for starting fights.↗

karen — Everyday, meaning 1: Karen is a girl's or woman's first name.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, rude) A karen is a mocking word for a woman who complains loudly, acts as if she has the right to everything and demands to "speak to the manager".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (slang) As a verb-like joke, people sometimes say someone is "being a Karen" when they make a big fuss over something small.↗ Example: My aunt Karen lives in Dublin and keeps chickens.↗ · Karen won the spelling bee in our class.↗ · (slang) A woman in the café shouted at the waiter and asked for the manager, and my brother whispered, "Total Karen."↗ · (slang) Don't be such a Karen about the cold chips, Mum, they're fine.↗ · (slang) The video showed a karen yelling at a teenager working the till.↗ · Mrs Hill says calling people "Karen" is unkind to everyone who has that name.↗ · The little girl was called Karen.↗

karma — Everyday, meaning 1: (religion) In Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, karma is the idea that a person's actions, good or bad, bring results back to them, in this life or a future life.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) The idea that good or bad things happen to you because of how you behaved: «That's karma!».↗ Example: Hindus believe karma follows a person into their next life.↗ · Buddhists try to do good actions to make good karma.↗ · He laughed at me and then tripped; that's karma!↗ (informal)↗ · Helping others is said to bring good karma.↗ · The idea of karma means our actions matter.↗ · Instant karma: the boy who took the last cake dropped it.↗ · Our RE teacher explained karma with a story about a kind farmer.↗

kayak — Everyday, meaning 1: A light, narrow boat for one or two people, with a covered top, moved with a paddle that has a blade at each end.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To travel in a kayak.↗ Example: We paddled a kayak across the lake.↗ · Always wear a life jacket in a kayak.↗ · Inuit hunters used kayaks made from seal skin.↗ · We went kayaking on the river at camp.↗ · The kayak tipped over, but I swam to the bank.↗ · A kayak paddle has a blade at each end.↗ · Two of us fit in the double kayak.↗ · I will deck the spot with thy kayak, and thy arrows, and the angekokk shall dance over it.↗

kazak — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Kazak is another spelling of Kazakh, a person from Kazakhstan or of the Kazakh people, or their language.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Kazak (also Kazakh) rug is a thick, colourful woollen carpet with bold patterns, first made in the Caucasus region.↗ Example: The Kazak people have a long history of horse riding.↗ · Kazakhstan is the home of the Kazakh people.↗ · Grandma has a red Kazak rug.↗ · Many Kazaks speak both Kazakh and Russian.↗ · The Kazak rug has bold geometric patterns.↗ · We found Kazakhstan on the map in Central Asia.↗

kazakh — Everyday, meaning 1: A person from Kazakhstan, or a member of the Kazakh people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kazakh is the main language of Kazakhstan, a Turkic language now changing from Cyrillic to Latin letters.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) To do with Kazakhstan or the Kazakh people.↗ e.g. Kazakh food.↗ Example: Kazakh eagle hunters train golden eagles.↗ · Kazakh is spoken in Kazakhstan.↗ · My friend's family is Kazakh.↗ · Kazakhstan is the biggest country with no coast to the open sea.↗ · Yuri Gagarin's rocket was launched from Baikonur on the Kazakh steppe.↗ · We tried a Kazakh dish called beshbarmak.↗

kea — Everyday, meaning 1: A kea is a large, olive-green mountain parrot from the South Island of New Zealand, with bright orange under its wings, famous for being very clever and cheeky.↗ Example: A kea pulled the rubber off our car window.↗ · Keas live high in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island.↗ · The kea's wings are bright orange underneath.↗ · Scientists say keas are as clever as some monkeys at puzzles.↗ · Don't leave your boots outside — the keas will steal them!↗ · Keas are protected because only a few thousand are left.↗

keel — Everyday, meaning 1: A keel is the long piece along the bottom of a boat that keeps it steady in the water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To keel over (informal) is to fall over suddenly, especially when fainting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «On an even keel» means calm and steady.↗ Example: The boat's keel scraped on the rocks.↗ · He keeled over in the heat.↗ · Things are back on an even keel now.↗ · Sailing boats need a deep keel.↗ · The ship's keel was laid first.↗ · The old tree keeled over in the storm.↗ · Then they set to work and built a long ship, and its keel they made of the rowan tree.↗

keen — Everyday, meaning 1: Keen means very eager or interested: «She is keen on football.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Keen means sharp or strong: «keen eyesight», «a keen wind».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK/Australia informal) Keen to do something means wanting to do it: «Are you keen?»↗ = do you want to come?↗ Example: He's keen on dinosaurs.↗ · Are you keen to come to the park?↗ · Eagles have keen eyesight.↗ · A keen wind blew across the beach.↗ · I'm not keen on spinach.↗ · She is a keen reader — two books a week!↗ · His keen eyes scanned the wide plain.↗ · Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet were they keen-edged swords.↗ (Writings PSA.55.22, JPS 1917)↗

keenly — Everyday, meaning 1: Keenly means eagerly, with a lot of interest.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Keenly means very strongly or deeply, as in «keenly felt».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Keenly means sharply and carefully, as in «watched keenly».↗ Example: The children waited keenly for the results.↗ · She keenly felt the loss of her dog.↗ · The owl watched the field keenly.↗ · It was a keenly fought football final.↗ · He is keenly interested in dinosaurs.↗ · The new book was keenly awaited.↗ · Yet, in spite of this numbness of feeling, he suffered keenly at the thought of passing under the windows of his good little Fairy’s house.↗

keep — Everyday, meaning 1: To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To keep doing something is to go on doing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To keep something in a place is to store it there.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To keep a promise or a secret is to not break it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To keep someone or something safe, warm or clean is to make it stay that way.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Food that keeps stays good to eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «For keeps» means forever; «keep it real» means be honest; «keep your hair on» (UK) means calm down.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rude) «Keep your nose out», «keep your hands off my stuff» are blunt warnings.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (formal) Exams say «retain», «preserve», «maintain», «hold in reserve» or «remain in the possession of».↗ Everyday, meaning 10: To keep watch means to stay awake and alert, looking out for danger.↗ Example: Sam keeps 3 stamps and gives the rest to Mia.↗ · Anna kept 5 of her 12 cookies.↗ · Ben keeps his marbles in 4 jars.↗ · Keep the change!↗ · Keep going, you're nearly there!↗ · Keep away from the edge of the cliff.↗ · Wear a hat to keep warm in the snow.↗ · Can I keep it?↗ For keeps?↗ · Keep your mitts off my chips, I've only got 6 left.↗ · Keep ya hair on, I'll give you 2.↗ · Of 12 cookies, the subject retains 5 and transfers the remainder.↗ Ascertain the number transferred.↗ · Milk keeps for about a week in the fridge.↗ · To-night we'll both keep watch together."↗ · The LORD bless thee, and keep thee; (Torah NUM.6.24, JPS 1917)↗ · All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.↗ (Torah EXO.12.47, JPS 1917)↗ · Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.↗ (Torah EXO.20.8, JPS 1917)↗ · O God of my praise, keep not silence; (Writings PSA.109.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherewithal shall a young man keep his way pure?↗ (Writings PSA.119.9, JPS 1917)↗ · If they profane My statutes, and keep not My commandments; (Writings PSA.89.32, JPS 1917)↗