📖 K — The English dictionary · page 3

keyboard — Everyday, meaning 1: A keyboard is the set of keys with letters, numbers and symbols that you press to type into a computer, tablet or phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A keyboard is the row of black and white keys on a piano.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A keyboard is an electronic musical instrument with piano keys.↗ Example: Type your name using the keyboard.↗ · Press the space bar to put a space between words.↗ · Hold down shift to make a capital letter.↗ · I am learning to play the keyboard.↗ · The piano keyboard has black and white keys.↗ · The keyboard shortcut to copy is Ctrl and C.↗ · Keep drinks away from the keyboard.↗

keyhole — Everyday, meaning 1: A keyhole is the small hole in a lock where you put the key.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Keyhole surgery is an operation done through very small cuts, using a camera.↗ Example: He put the key in the keyhole and turned it.↗ · Alice looked through the keyhole and saw a beautiful garden.↗ · Light shone through the keyhole.↗ · It is rude to listen at the keyhole.↗ · Grandpa had keyhole surgery on his knee.↗ · The keyhole was too dark to find in the night.↗ · Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole.↗

keypad — Everyday, meaning 1: A keypad is a small set of buttons with numbers and sometimes letters, used to type a code or number, like on a phone, a calculator, a microwave or a door lock.↗ Example: Type the code into the keypad to open the door.↗ · Cover the keypad when you enter your PIN.↗ · The microwave has a keypad for setting the time.↗ · Press 1 on the keypad for help.↗ · The calculator keypad has bigger buttons than the phone.↗ · The school gate has a keypad lock.↗ · My finger slipped on the keypad and I typed the wrong number.↗

keystone — Everyday, meaning 1: A keystone is the central wedge-shaped stone at the top of an arch that holds all the other stones in place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A keystone is the most important part of a plan, idea or system, which everything else depends on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) A keystone species is an animal or plant that its whole ecosystem depends on, like sea otters or beavers.↗ Example: The keystone at the top holds the whole arch together.↗ · When the builders put in the keystone, they could remove the wooden frame.↗ · Sea otters are a keystone species because they eat sea urchins that destroy kelp forests.↗ · Reading is the keystone of learning.↗ · Beavers are a keystone species that build dams and make ponds.↗ · Pennsylvania is known as the Keystone State.↗

kg — Everyday, meaning 1: Kg is the short way to write kilogram, a unit for how heavy something is.↗ 1 kg is 1000 grams.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kg is the same for one or many: 1 kg, 5 kg.↗ Example: A bag of rice weighs 5 kg.↗ · Apples cost 3 dollars per kg.↗ · The box weighs 12 kg and the lid 1 kg.↗ · 2 kg = 2000 g.↗ · A bag of sugar is about 1 kg.↗ · My suitcase weighs 20 kg.↗ · Half a kilogram is 500 g, written 0.5 kg.↗ · The baby weighed 3 kg when she was born.↗

khaki — Everyday, meaning 1: Khaki is a dull yellow-brown or greenish-brown colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Khaki is a strong cotton cloth of this colour, used for army uniforms.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US) Khakis are trousers made of this cloth.↗ Example: Soldiers wore khaki uniforms.↗ · Dad wore his khaki shorts on holiday.↗ · Mix brown and green to make khaki.↗ · He bought a pair of khakis for school.↗ · Khaki is hard to spot among dry grass.↗ · The explorer wore a khaki hat.↗

khan — Everyday, meaning 1: A khan was a ruler or king among the Mongols, Turks and other peoples of Central Asia; the most famous is Genghis Khan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Khan is a common family name in South Asia and elsewhere (a name).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A khan was also an inn where travelling merchants and their camels stayed, on old trade routes like the Silk Road.↗ Example: Genghis Khan led the Mongols across Asia.↗ · The khan's horsemen rode faster than any army.↗ · Kublai Khan ruled China from Beijing.↗ · Marco Polo visited the court of the Great Khan.↗ · Traders rested at a khan on the Silk Road.↗ · My friend's surname is Khan.↗

khanate — Everyday, meaning 1: A khanate is a land or state ruled by a khan, a ruler of Mongol or Turkic peoples.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It also means the power or rule of a khan.↗ Example: The Mongol Empire split into several khanates.↗ · The Crimean Khanate lasted for more than three hundred years.↗ · Each khanate had its own khan.↗ · Our history book shows a map of the Golden Horde khanate.↗ · The khanate collected taxes from the towns it ruled.↗ · Moscow was once forced to pay tribute to a khanate.↗ · Kazan was the capital of a khanate.↗

khanty — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) The Khanty are an Indigenous people who live in western Siberia, in Russia, near the Ob River.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Khanty is also the name of their language, related to Hungarian.↗ Example: The Khanty live in western Siberia.↗ · Some Khanty families still herd reindeer.↗ · The Khanty language is distantly related to Hungarian.↗ · The Khanty catch fish in the cold rivers.↗ · We read a Khanty folk tale in class.↗ · Oil drilling has changed Khanty land.↗

khmer — Everyday, meaning 1: The main people of Cambodia in South-East Asia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The language of Cambodia, with its own alphabet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) To do with the Khmer people, their language or their old empire, which built Angkor Wat.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (history) The Khmer Rouge: a cruel government that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and killed very many people.↗ Example: Most people in Cambodia speak Khmer.↗ · Angkor Wat was built by the Khmer Empire.↗ · Khmer script has curly letters.↗ · My classmate's family is Khmer and they celebrate Khmer New Year in April.↗ · The Khmer Rouge caused terrible suffering in the 1970s.↗ · We tasted Khmer food at the festival.↗

khufu — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Khufu was a king (pharaoh) of ancient Egypt, about 4,500 years ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as his tomb, so it is often called the Pyramid of Khufu.↗ Example: Khufu was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt.↗ · The Great Pyramid was built for Khufu.↗ · The Greeks called Khufu «Cheops».↗ · Khufu's pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.↗ · Thousands of workers built Khufu's tomb.↗ · Only one small statue of Khufu has ever been found.↗

ki — Everyday, meaning 1: (Japanese, Korean) Ki is a word for life energy or inner strength, used in martial arts like aikido and karate; in Chinese it is «qi» or «chi».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «ki» is also a piece of longer words such as «kick», «kite» or «ski».↗ Example: In aikido, the teacher tells us to focus our ki.↗ · «Ki» is the Japanese word for life energy.↗ · The Chinese word «qi» means something similar.↗ · Breathe slowly and feel your ki, the sensei said.↗ · «Ki» is the first part of «kite».↗ · Some Scrabble players use «ki» to get points.↗

kick — Everyday, meaning 1: To hit something with your foot.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a person or animal: to move the legs strongly: babies kick, horses kick.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A noun: a hit with the foot: a free kick, a penalty kick.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Kick off: to start a football match, or to start anything.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Informal: a feeling of fun or excitement: «I get a kick out of it».↗ Example: Kick the ball to me!↗ · The match kicks off at three.↗ · He scored with a free kick.↗ · Don't stand behind a horse — it might kick.↗ · Kick your legs when you swim.↗ · It's not okay to kick people.↗ · The baby kicked its feet.↗ · She kicked up a fuss about her dinner.↗ · It made Peter kick instead of stab.↗ · But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.↗ (Torah DEU.32.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore kick ye at My sacrifice and at Mine offering, which I have commanded in My habitation; and honourest thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel My people?↗ (Prophets 1SA.2.29, JPS 1917)↗

kicker — Everyday, meaning 1: A kicker is a player who kicks the ball, especially in American football or rugby, to score points or kick it far.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) The kicker is a surprising twist or extra fact at the end, often an unpleasant one.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A kicker is a person or animal that kicks.↗ Example: The kicker scored the winning goal in the last second.↗ · The rugby team's best kicker took the conversion.↗ · The trip was cancelled, and the kicker was we'd already packed.↗ · Watch out, that horse is a kicker.↗ · And here's the kicker: the treasure was fake!↗ · The kicker practises every day.↗

kid — Everyday, meaning 1: A kid is a child or a young person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kid is a young goat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To kid is to joke or tease in a friendly way; «just kidding» means «I was joking».↗ Example: There were 30 kids at camp.↗ · 18 kids went home.↗ · Each kid got 2 apples.↗ · How many kids stayed at camp?↗ · The kids played soccer after school.↗ · The goat had two kids in the spring.↗ · I'm just kidding, I didn't really eat your cake!↗ · Kids under 5 ride the bus for free.↗ · Are you kidding?↗ That's amazing!↗ · She ordered from the kids' menu.↗ · The Kid knew there was little hope for him.↗ · Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.↗ (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'↗ (Torah EXO.34.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.↗ (Torah GEN.27.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.'↗ (Prophets JDG.13.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.↗ (Prophets 1SA.16.20, JPS 1917)↗ · If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids, beside the shepherds' tents.↗ (Writings SNG.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

kidnap — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) To take a person away by force or by tricking them, and keep them against their will, often to demand money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, UK) The crime of kidnapping.↗ Example: The villain planned to kidnap the princess.↗ · Never get into a stranger's car, even if they say your mum sent them.↗ · The police rescued the kidnapped boy within a day.↗ · The kidnappers asked for a ransom of one million dollars.↗ · In the book, pirates kidnap the hero and take him to sea.↗ · The news reported a failed kidnap attempt.↗ · My little brother «kidnapped» my teddy, but I got it back!↗ · “Captain,” said Smee, “could we not kidnap these boys’ mother and make her our mother?”↗

kidnapper — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who takes someone away by force or tricks and keeps them as a prisoner, often to demand money.↗ Example: The kidnappers asked for a huge ransom.↗ · The police caught the kidnapper.↗ · In the story, the children escaped from the kidnappers.↗ · Never go anywhere with a stranger.↗ · The kidnapper wore a mask.↗ · The detective tracked down the kidnappers.↗

kidney — Everyday, meaning 1: Your kidneys are two bean-shaped organs in your lower back that clean your blood by removing waste and extra water, which leaves the body as urine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kidney is the kidneys of animals used as food.↗ Example: Your kidneys filter waste out of your blood.↗ · Most people have two kidneys.↗ · Kidney beans are shaped like kidneys.↗ · Drink plenty of water to help your kidneys.↗ · My uncle gave his sister a kidney to save her life.↗ · Steak and kidney pie is a traditional British food.↗ · But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah LEV.9.10, JPS 1917)↗ · and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.↗ (Torah LEV.9.19, JPS 1917)↗ · and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.↗ (Torah LEV.3.10, JPS 1917)↗