📖 K — The English dictionary · page 2

keeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A keeper is a person who looks after something or someone, like a zookeeper or a shopkeeper.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In football and hockey, the keeper (goalkeeper) stops the ball going into the goal.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In cricket, the wicketkeeper stands behind the stumps.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Informally, a keeper is someone or something worth keeping.↗ Example: The keeper caught the ball.↗ · The zookeeper fed the penguins.↗ · The lighthouse keeper lived alone on the island.↗ · My uncle is a beekeeper.↗ · The shopkeeper gave me my change.↗ · This drawing is a keeper!↗ · «Finders keepers!» shouted my brother.↗ · "I'm Elfin, the pig keeper," said the ragged youth.↗ · And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.↗ (Torah GEN.4.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother?'↗ And he said: 'I know not; am I my brother's keeper?'↗ (Torah GEN.4.9, JPS 1917)↗ · But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.↗ (Torah GEN.39.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.↗ (Writings 1CH.15.23, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD is thy keeper; the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.↗ (Writings PSA.121.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And after him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.↗ (Writings NEH.3.29, JPS 1917)↗

keepest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «keepest» means «you keep», a form of «keep».↗ e.g. To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away.↗ Example: I hear it of thee, thou keepest far greater state than I.↗ (More English Fairy Tales)

keepeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «keepeth» means «keeps», a form of «keep».↗ e.g. To keep something is to go on having it and not give it away.↗ Example: Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God; the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations;↗ (Torah DEU.7.9, JPS 1917)

keepsake — Everyday, meaning 1: A small thing you keep to help you remember a person, place or time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gift given so the person will remember the giver.↗ Example: Gran gave me her old brooch as a keepsake.↗ · I keep the shell as a keepsake of our beach holiday.↗ · The ticket is a keepsake from my first concert.↗ · She kept his letters as keepsakes.↗ · Our class made keepsake boxes for our memories.↗ · After Grandpa passed away, each grandchild chose a keepsake.↗ · But at parting the little girl took an elder-blossom from her breast and gave it to him as a keepsake.↗

keg — Everyday, meaning 1: A keg is a small barrel, used to store drink such as ale or brandy.↗ Example: Hans packed two kegs of brandy for the journey.↗ · The keg of ale was kept in the cellar.↗ · The men rolled the keg up the hill.↗

kelp — Everyday, meaning 1: Kelp is a large brown seaweed that grows in the sea, often in long ribbons or tall underwater forests.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kelp can also mean seaweed used as food or as fertiliser.↗ Example: Sea otters wrap themselves in kelp so they do not drift away while sleeping.↗ · We found a long strand of kelp washed up on the beach.↗ · Kelp forests are full of fish.↗ · Kelp can grow very fast in cold seawater.↗ · Some people eat dried kelp in soups.↗ · The diver swam slowly through the kelp.↗ · Be careful not to get tangled in kelp when swimming.↗ · The kelp felt slimy and rubbery.↗

ken — Everyday, meaning 1: (Scotland, Northern England) To ken means to know: «I dinnae ken» = I don't know.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, old) Your ken is what you know or understand: «Rocket science is beyond my ken».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ken is a boy's name, short for Kenneth (a name).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Scotland, informal) «Ken» at the end of a sentence means «you know»: «It was brilliant, ken.».↗ Example: «Dae ye ken where the station is?» asked the old Scottish man.↗ · I dinnae ken what you mean.↗ (Scotland)↗ · It was a great game, ken?↗ · How the universe began is beyond my ken.↗ · Ken is my uncle's name.↗ · «Aye, I ken him fine,» said Granny, meaning she knew him well.↗ · And they were married, and he and she are living happy till this day, for aught I ken.↗ (1)↗

kennel — Everyday, meaning 1: A small hut or shelter for a dog to sleep in.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kennels (often plural, UK): a place where dogs are looked after while their owners are away, or where dogs are bred.↗ Example: Our dog has a wooden kennel in the yard.↗ · We left Rex at the kennels while we were on holiday.↗ · The puppy curled up in its kennel.↗ · The kennel needs a warm blanket for winter.↗ · She works at a kennel that trains guide dogs.↗ · If a kennel charges 20 dollars a night, 5 nights cost 100 dollars.↗

kenning — Everyday, meaning 1: A kenning is a short, two-word phrase that names something in a clever, poetic way instead of using its usual name, such as «whale-road» for the sea or «sky-candle» for the sun.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kennings were used a lot in Old English and Old Norse poems, such as «Beowulf» and Viking sagas.↗ Example: «Whale-road» is a kenning for the sea.↗ · Write a kenning poem about your pet.↗ · A dog could be a «ball-chaser» or «postman-scarer».↗ · Viking poets used kennings like «bone-house» for the body.↗ · Our class guessed that «night-light» was a kenning for the moon.↗ · Each line of a kenning poem is two words.↗

kenyan — Everyday, meaning 1: A Kenyan is a person who comes from Kenya, a country in East Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kenyan means belonging to Kenya or its people, such as Kenyan food, Kenyan runners or Kenyan wildlife.↗ Example: A Kenyan runner won the marathon.↗ · Our class has a pen pal who is Kenyan.↗ · Kenyan tea is grown in the highlands.↗ · Many Kenyans speak Swahili and English.↗ · We read a Kenyan folk tale about a clever hare.↗ · Kenyan safari parks have lions, elephants and giraffes.↗ · The Kenyan flag is black, red and green with white lines and a shield.↗ · My uncle visited a Kenyan school.↗

keratin — Everyday, meaning 1: Keratin is a tough protein that makes up hair, nails, claws, horns, hooves, feathers and the outer layer of skin.↗ Example: Your fingernails are made of keratin.↗ · A rhino's horn is made of keratin, just like hair.↗ · Feathers, claws and hooves all contain keratin.↗ · Cutting your hair doesn't hurt because it is dead keratin.↗ · Some shampoos say they contain keratin.↗ · The outer layer of our skin is tough because of keratin.↗

kerb — Everyday, meaning 1: The kerb is the raised edge of a pavement (sidewalk) where it meets the road.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In American English it is spelled curb.↗ Example: Stop at the kerb and look both ways.↗ · Don't step off the kerb without checking for cars.↗ · The car parked next to the kerb.↗ · She tripped on the kerb and grazed her knee.↗ · Wheelchairs need dropped kerbs to cross the road.↗ · Wait on the kerb until the green man shows.↗ · The bins go out to the kerb on Monday nights.↗ · Stand well back from the kerb when buses pass.↗

kerchief — Everyday, meaning 1: A kerchief is a square of cloth worn on the head or neck, or used to wipe the face or to wave.↗ Example: He waved his kerchief from the tower.↗ · She tied a red kerchief around her hair.↗ · The embroidered kerchief lay on the ground.↗

kernel — Everyday, meaning 1: A kernel is the soft part inside a nut or the seed inside the hard stone of a fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kernel is a whole seed of a grain such as corn (maize) or wheat: popcorn is made of corn kernels.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The kernel of something is its most important central part: «a kernel of truth».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (computing) The kernel is the core part of a computer's operating system that controls everything else.↗ Example: Popcorn kernels pop when you heat them.↗ · Squirrels crack hazelnuts to eat the kernel.↗ · Each corn cob has hundreds of kernels.↗ · The rumour had a kernel of truth in it.↗ · Wheat kernels are ground into flour.↗ · Some kernels did not pop and stayed hard at the bottom of the bowl.↗ · The computer's kernel controls the memory and the screen.↗ · They soon gathered some, cracked them, and ate the fine young kernels, which were only just ripe.↗

kerosene — Everyday, meaning 1: Kerosene is a thin, clear oil made from petroleum that is burned as fuel in lamps, heaters, stoves and jet engines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Australia, USA, Canada) Kerosene is the usual name for paraffin oil; in the UK it is often called paraffin.↗ Example: Before electricity, people read by kerosene lamps.↗ · Jet planes burn a fuel made mainly of kerosene.↗ · The cabin was heated by a kerosene stove.↗ · Kerosene is flammable, so keep it away from flames.↗ · Never drink kerosene; call for help at once if a child swallows some.↗ · In the UK, kerosene is often called paraffin.↗ · At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too.↗

kestrel — Everyday, meaning 1: A kestrel is a small bird of prey, a kind of falcon, with brown feathers and a long tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is famous for hovering in one place in the air, beating its wings, while looking down for mice and insects.↗ Example: A kestrel hovered above the field.↗ · The kestrel swooped down and caught a mouse.↗ · Kestrels are small falcons.↗ · We saw a kestrel beside the motorway.↗ · In the food chain, the vole is eaten by the kestrel.↗ · A kestrel has sharp talons and a hooked beak.↗

ketch — Everyday, meaning 1: A ketch is a sailing boat with two masts, a taller one at the front and a shorter one near the back.↗ Example: They sailed round the coast in a ketch.↗ · A ketch has two masts.↗ · The old fishing ketch was painted blue.↗ · The pirates chased a small ketch.↗ · We visited a ketch in the harbour museum.↗ · The ketch caught the wind and sped away.↗

ketchup — Everyday, meaning 1: Ketchup is a thick red sauce made from tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and spices, eaten with chips, burgers and other food.↗ Example: Can I have ketchup with my chips?↗ · He put too much ketchup on his burger.↗ · Shake the bottle before the ketchup comes out.↗ · The ketchup bottle holds 500 millilitres.↗ · Ketchup is made mostly from tomatoes.↗ · She dipped her fries in ketchup.↗ · In Australia, people call ketchup tomato sauce.↗ · There's ketchup on your shirt!↗

kettle — Everyday, meaning 1: A container with a lid, a handle and a spout, used for boiling water.↗ Example: Mum put the kettle on for tea.↗ · The kettle whistled when the water boiled.↗ · Steam came out of the kettle's spout.↗ · Never touch a hot kettle.↗ · Keep the kettle cord away from the counter edge.↗ · Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.↗ · That's a different kettle of fish.↗ · But something was the matter with the kettle.↗ · and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith.↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.14, JPS 1917)↗

kettleful — Everyday, meaning 1: A kettleful is as much as one kettle can hold.↗ Example: A kettleful of pitch was emptied over her.↗ · Mum made a kettleful of tea for everyone.↗ · We filled the bucket with three kettlefuls of water.↗

key — Everyday, meaning 1: A key is a small metal piece used to open and lock a lock.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A key is a button on a keyboard, or one of the black and white bars on a piano.↗ A piano has 88 keys.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The key of a map or graph tells what each picture, colour or sign means.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The key to something is the thing that helps you solve or understand it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Key also means most important: a key word, a key fact.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To key in is to type.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: Under lock and key means locked away safely.↗ Example: She has 6 keys on her key ring.↗ · A piano has 88 keys.↗ · In the key, each star stands for 5 books.↗ · He typed 40 keys a minute.↗ · I lost the key to the back door.↗ · Look at the map key to find the campsite.↗ · Practice is the key to good spelling.↗ · Underline the key words in the problem.↗ · Press the Enter key to start the game.↗ · Put the crack-brain under lock and key!"↗ · The key to the complete identification of the philosophy of Pythagoras with that of the Sefer Yetzira as interpreted in this thesis is the Zero.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.↗ (Prophets ISA.22.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper chamber; therefore they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.25, JPS 1917)↗