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  • 51kind*/*/*/ — [kaɪnd] noun [C] I a type of person or thing Syn: sort I guess I m not the marrying kind.[/ex] The bridge is the largest of its kind in the world.[/ex] We ve all had disappointments of some kind.[/ex] There was no financial link between us of any …

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  • 52kind — I. /kaɪnd / (say kuynd) adjective 1. of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person. 2. having, showing, or proceeding from benevolence: kind words. 3. cordial; well meant: kind regards. 4. (sometimes followed by to) indulgent,… …

  • 53KIND — GERMANY (see also List of Individuals) 6.6.1801 Linda/D 9.3.1873 Saarbrücken/D Carl G. Kind appears to have been a technically gifted boy working in mining areas of Saxony from age thirteen. As early as in 1823 he was involved in drilling… …

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  • 54kind —    Formerly a well used vocative element, now mainly used in ‘kind sir,’ which often occurs in ‘Thank you, kind sir,’ uttered with mock coyness and humility by a woman to a man. ‘Kind’ usually has its modern meaning of ‘benevolent’ in Shakespeare …

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  • 55kind — This word has many meanings, among them class (a kind of preacher), subdivision of a category (that kind of orange), and, with of, rather or somewhat (kind of sorry). Kind is singular, so that one should not say these (or those) kind of shoes but …

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  • 56Kind — 1. a) Baby, Neugeborenes, Säugling; (schweiz.): Bébé; (geh., oft scherzh.): kleiner/neuer Erdenbürger, kleine/neue Erdenbürgerin; (fam.): Wurm; (veraltend): Wickelkind; (bes. Amtsspr.): Kleinkind, Kleinstkind. b) Kleiner, Kleine; …

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  • 57kind — {{11}}kind (adj.) friendly, deliberately doing good to others, from O.E. gecynde natural, native, innate, originally with the feeling of relatives for each other, from P.Gmc. *gakundiz natural, native, from *kunjam (see KIN (Cf. kin)), with… …

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  • 58kind — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sort, species, class, type, ilk, breed, character, nature. adj. kindly, kindhearted; gentle, tender, sympathetic, mild, friendly, obliging, benign, solicitous, lenient; helpful. See benevolence,… …

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  • 59kind — I. noun Etymology: Middle English kinde, from Old English cynd; akin to Old English cynn kin Date: before 12th century 1. a. archaic nature b. archaic family, lineage 2 …

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  • 60Kind — Die Zweige geben Kunde von der Wurzel. «Arabisches Sprichwort» Wir müssen wie die Kinder reden, wenn wir überleben wollen. Die Blauäugigen waren es seit je, die neue Wege fanden, nicht die Verblendeten. «Wolf Biermann, Welt» Kinder, die man nicht …

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