📖 K — The English dictionary · page 5

kindled — Everyday, meaning 1: Kindled means set alight; kindled is the past form of kindle.↗ Example: Between them they kindled a fire.↗ · His woodpile was not yet kindled.↗ · The king's wrath was kindled against Noureddin.↗ · And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed.↗ (Torah NUM.12.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD'S anger was kindled in that day, and He swore, saying: (Torah NUM.32.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Israel joined himself unto the Baal of Peor; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.↗ (Torah NUM.25.3, JPS 1917)↗ · My heart is turned within Me, My compassions are kindled together.↗ (Prophets HOS.11.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.↗ (Prophets JDG.14.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.↗ (Writings PSA.106.18, JPS 1917)↗

kindling — Everyday, meaning 1: Kindling is small dry sticks and wood used to start a fire.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kindling is the action of setting a fire alight; it is the -ing form of kindle.↗ Example: Gather some dry kindling for the fire.↗ · We lit the kindling with a match.↗ · They spent the evening kindling a fire of driftwood.↗ · heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the flesh may be consumed; and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned; (Prophets EZK.24.10, JPS 1917)↗

kindly — Everyday, meaning 1: Kindly means in a kind, gentle and caring way: «She smiled kindly».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Kindly» is a formal way to say «please»: «Kindly close the door».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an adjective, kindly means kind and friendly: «a kindly old man».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Not take kindly to» means not like something.↗ Example: She kindly helped me carry my bags.↗ · The nurse spoke kindly to the frightened boy.↗ · Kindly wait here.↗ · Treat animals kindly.↗ · He kindly lent me his pencil.↗ · The kindly old lady gave us apples.↗ · The cat did not take kindly to the new puppy.↗ · Thank you kindly for the present.↗ · "Approach, my son," he said kindly.↗ · Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.'↗ And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.↗ (Torah GEN.50.21, JPS 1917)↗ · And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.49, JPS 1917)↗ · The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?↗ (Writings JOB.39.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.↗ (Prophets 2KI.25.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law: 'Go, return each of you to her mother's house; the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.↗ (Writings RUT.1.8, JPS 1917)↗

kindness — Everyday, meaning 1: Kindness is being friendly, caring and helpful to others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kindness is a kind act.↗ Example: Thank you for your kindness.↗ · Kindness costs nothing.↗ · She showed kindness to the new boy.↗ · Treat animals with kindness.↗ · Holding the door open is a small act of kindness.↗ · His kindness made her feel welcome.↗ · Our class did a week of kindness challenges.↗ · An act of kindness is well repaid.↗ · 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 he said: 'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray Thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.↗ (Torah GEN.24.12, JPS 1917)↗ · But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.↗ (Torah GEN.40.14, JPS 1917)↗ · She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is on her tongue.↗ (Writings PRO.31.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?'↗ (Prophets 2SA.16.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not; (Prophets 1SA.20.14, JPS 1917)↗

kindred — Everyday, meaning 1: Kindred are your family and relatives.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kindred means of the same kind or related in nature.↗ Example: It is good to be with one's own kindred again.↗ · He summoned all his kindred.↗ · Tritons and their kindred live in the sea.↗ · But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.↗ (Torah GEN.24.38, JPS 1917)↗ · But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'↗ (Torah GEN.24.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.'↗ (Torah NUM.10.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Ascribe unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe unto the LORD glory and strength.↗ (Writings 1CH.16.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not tell it.↗ (Writings EST.2.10, JPS 1917)↗ · All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.22.28, JPS 1917)↗

kine — Everyday, meaning 1: Kine is an old word for cows, used as the plural of cow.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Cows, or cattle.↗ Example: Heavy are the kine in the field.↗ · The farmer milked the kine every morning.↗ · Long ago the kine grazed by the river.↗ · And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.↗ (Torah GEN.41.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.↗ (Torah GEN.41.4, JPS 1917)↗ · thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.↗ (Torah GEN.32.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.↗ (Prophets 1SA.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast.'↗ (Prophets AMO.4.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them.↗ (Prophets 1SA.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.↗ (Torah GEN.41.20, JPS 1917) · You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.↗ (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) · And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.↗ (Torah GEN.41.4, JPS 1917)

kinetic — Everyday, meaning 1: Kinetic means about movement or caused by movement.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Kinetic energy is the energy an object has because it is moving; the faster or heavier it moves, the more kinetic energy it has.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Kinetic art is art with parts that move.↗ Example: A rolling ball has kinetic energy.↗ · As the roller coaster goes down, its kinetic energy increases.↗ · Wind turbines use the kinetic energy of moving air.↗ · When the car stops, its kinetic energy turns into heat in the brakes.↗ · We played with kinetic sand that flows like liquid.↗ · The museum has a kinetic sculpture that moves in the wind.↗ · A faster runner has more kinetic energy.↗

king — Everyday, meaning 1: A king is a man who rules a country, usually because his parent was king or queen before him.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A king is a playing card with a picture of a king, and the most important piece in chess.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A king is a man, animal or thing thought to be the best or most powerful of its kind («the lion is the king of the jungle»).↗ Example: The king wore a golden crown.↗ · Britain has a king, but Parliament makes the laws.↗ · In chess, you lose if your king is trapped.↗ · I have the king of hearts!↗ · The lion is called the king of the jungle, though it lives on grassland.↗ · The prince became king when his mother died.↗ · He thinks he is the king of the playground.↗ · We slept in a king-size bed at the hotel.↗ · And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.↗ (Torah GEN.26.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying: (Torah NUM.21.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.↗ (Torah EXO.1.8, JPS 1917)↗ · All the kings thirty and one.↗ (Prophets JOS.12.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the king hearkened unto them.↗ (Writings 2CH.24.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Then was the king's wrath assuaged.↗ (Writings EST.7.10, JPS 1917)↗

kingdom — Everyday, meaning 1: A kingdom is a country ruled by a king or queen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a kingdom is one of the biggest groups living things are sorted into, like the animal kingdom or the plant kingdom.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A kingdom can be an area that belongs to someone, like «the kitchen is Dad's kingdom».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A kingdom can also be a large group of things of the same kind, such as the mineral kingdom, which includes all the metals.↗ Example: The king ruled a large kingdom.↗ · The United Kingdom has a king.↗ · Lions belong to the animal kingdom.↗ · Mushrooms are in the fungi kingdom, not the plant kingdom.↗ · The princess saved the kingdom from the dragon.↗ · Long ago, England had several small kingdoms.↗ · The garden shed is Grandad's kingdom.↗ · My father reigned over six kingdoms.↗ · and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.↗ (Torah EXO.19.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.↗ (Torah GEN.10.10, JPS 1917)↗ · all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. — (Torah DEU.3.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.↗ (Prophets 1KI.1.46, JPS 1917)↗ · And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.2.46, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!↗ (Prophets ISA.13.4, JPS 1917)↗

kingfisher — Everyday, meaning 1: A kingfisher is a small, brightly coloured bird with a big head and a long sharp beak that dives into water to catch fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some kingfishers, such as the Australian kookaburra, are large and catch lizards and insects on land.↗ Example: A kingfisher dived into the river and caught a fish.↗ · We saw a flash of blue — a kingfisher!↗ · The kookaburra is a big kingfisher.↗ · Kingfishers nest in tunnels in riverbanks.↗ · The bullet train's nose was copied from a kingfisher's beak.↗ · Kingfishers need clean rivers with lots of small fish.↗

kinglet — Everyday, meaning 1: A kinglet is a little king, or a small, minor king.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kinglet is also a tiny bird with a golden crest.↗ Example: The Kinglet was not late for his appointment.↗ · The kinglet promised to keep his word.↗ · A tiny kinglet sat on the branch.↗

kingly — Everyday, meaning 1: Kingly means fit for a king, or like a king in looks or manner.↗ Example: He will be sitting in his kingly chair.↗ · The champion had a kingly bearing.↗ · The napkin was embroidered with a kingly crown.↗ · But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him; (Writings DAN.5.20, JPS 1917)↗

kingship — Everyday, meaning 1: Kingship is the position, rank or power of a king.↗ Example: He would not lend his son to gain the kingship of the world.↗ · The old man gave up his kingship.↗ · A task greater than any since he seized the kingship.↗

kinsfolk — Everyday, meaning 1: The people of your family and relatives, taken together.↗ Example: He called his kinsfolk together to talk.↗ · Her kinsfolk lived in the next valley.↗ · Connachar went to the green knoll with his band of kinsfolk.↗ · My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.↗ (Writings JOB.19.14, JPS 1917)↗

kinship — Everyday, meaning 1: Kinship is being related to someone by family: being part of the same family by birth or marriage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A feeling of being close to someone because you share something, like interests or troubles.↗ Example: Kinship was very important in the old Scottish clans.↗ · Ella felt a kinship with the other new pupils.↗ · The two tribes were joined by kinship and marriage.↗ · Gran looks after my cousin; it's called kinship care.↗ · There is a special kinship between twins.↗ · Sharing a hobby can create a strong kinship.↗ · Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.↗ (Torah GEN.49.5, JPS 1917)↗

kinsman — Everyday, meaning 1: A male relative, a man of your own family.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A male relative, a man of the same family.↗ Example: The king trusted his kinsman.↗ · My kinsman will bring the horses.↗ · Find Eidoel, the son of Aer, his kinsman.↗ · And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it.↗ (Torah NUM.27.11, JPS 1917)↗ · If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.↗ (Torah LEV.25.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And now is there not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens thou wast?↗ (Writings RUT.3.2, JPS 1917)↗ · So the near kinsman said unto Boaz: 'Buy it for thyself.'↗ And he drew off his shoe.↗ (Writings RUT.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. (Writings RUT.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it.↗ (Torah NUM.27.11, JPS 1917) · "Do bring them to life, kinsman," say their relatives.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.↗ (Torah LEV.25.25, JPS 1917)