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kaiser
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noun
  1. An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962-1806), the Austrian Empire (1806-1918), and the German Empire (1871-1918).
  2. a person who exercises or tries to exercise absolute authority; autocrat.
Kay
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proper noun
  1. A surname derived from several Old and Middle English words; also adopted by immigrants whose surnames began with a K.
  2. (given name, male) derived from the surnames, or from a rare medieval given name ( as the Sir Kay of Arthurian legend ), Welsh Cai, Latinized as Caius, related to the modern male name Kai.
  3. (given name, female), short form of Katherine and other names beginning with a "K";popular as a middle name.
Keith
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proper noun
  1. A Scottish surname.
  2. (given name, male).
Kelly
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proper noun
  1. An Irish surname, Anglicized from the Gaelic í“ Ceallaigh
  2. (given name, female) derived from the surname, popular from the 1960s to the 1980s.
kemp
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noun
  1. Coarse, rough hair wool or fur.
Kennedy
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proper noun
  1. An Irish and Scottish surname, derived from the Gaelic í“ Ceannéidigh, "descendant of Head (ceann) + Ugly (éidigh) ".
  2. w:John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, US President.
  3. (given name, female) of modern American usage.
Kenny
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive of Kenneth
Kent
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proper noun
  1. A maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by Sussex, Surrey, London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
  2. (slang) A one pence piece. Named after the cheapest property in Monopoly (TM).
  3. A surname derived from the place name.
  4. (given name, male) transferred from the surname; of mostly American usage, but never popular.
Kern
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noun m (plural Kerns)
  1. A type of medieval Irish soldier
key
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noun
  1. An object designed to open and close a lock.
  2. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain the orientation between them.
  3. A crucial step or requirement.
the to solving this problem...
the to winning this game
  1. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart.
The says that A stands for the accounting department.
  1. One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, most of which generally correspond to a particular character.
Press the Escape .
  1. One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
  2. One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
  3. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
the of B-flat major
  1. A device used to transmit Morse code.
  2. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
  3. (computing): In a database, a field of a relation constrained to be unique.
  4. (computing): In a database, a field in a record that is used as a search argument (but is not necessarily unique).
  5. (computing): A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
  6. (basketball): The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the freethrow line, the freethrow lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
He shoots from the top of the .
  1. (slang): kilogram
verb
  1. To fit (a lock) with a key.
  2. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
  3. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
  4. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
  5. (computing): (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
Our instructor told us to in our user IDs.
  1. (colloquial) To use a key as a tool of convenience.
He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
adjective
  1. Indispensable.
He is the player for his soccer team.
He is the witness.
  1. Important, salient.
She makes several points
Keynes
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proper noun
  1. an English surname
  2. w:John Maynard Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, English economist
Khrushchev
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proper noun
  1. w:Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union as First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1964.
    • 1974, Freddie Mercury, "Killer Queen", Sheer Heart Attack.
    • : A built-in remedy for and Kennedy.
kid
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noun
  1. A young goat.
  2. Of a goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid
  3. kidskin, Kidskin.
  4. A young antelope.
  5. (colloquial) A child or young person.
King
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proper noun
  1. An English and Scottish surname; a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household
Kingston
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proper noun
  1. The capital of Jamaica.
  2. Any of various towns or cities in the UK, US, Canada or Australia.
Knight
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proper noun
  1. an English status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier
Knox
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proper noun
  1. a Scottish surname
  2. a male given name derived from the surname
  3. county in Maine
Koch
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proper noun
  1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.
kohl
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noun
  1. A dark powder (stibnite) used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries.
Koko
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proper noun
  1. A Khoisan language of Namibia and Botswana.
Kramer
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proper noun
  1. a surname derived from the German Krí¤mer
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