| kanone |
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noun
- an expert skier
| | | karate |
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noun
- An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
| | kayo |
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noun
- a knockout (in boxing)
verb to kayo
- To knock someone out, or render them unconscious or senseless
| | keeper |
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noun
- A person who keeps something.
- Finders keepers; losers weepers.
- (slang) Something worth keeping.
- You can throw out all the blurry photos, but the one with her and her daughter is certainly a .
- A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard.
- (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
- A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
- (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
| | kendo |
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noun kend�
- a Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.
| | key |
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noun
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- 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.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- the to solving this problem...
- the to winning this game
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart.
- The says that A stands for the accounting department.
- 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 .
- One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
- One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based
- the of B-flat major
- A device used to transmit Morse code.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing): In a database, a field of a relation constrained to be unique.
- (computing): In a database, a field in a record that is used as a search argument (but is not necessarily unique).
- (computing): A value that uniquely identifies an entry in an associative array.
- (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 .
- (slang): kilogram
verb
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (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.
- (colloquial) To use a key as a tool of convenience.
- He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
adjective
- Indispensable.
- He is the player for his soccer team.
- He is the witness.
- Important, salient.
- She makes several points
| | keyhole |
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noun - The hole in a lock where the key is inserted and turns
| | keystone |
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noun
- (architecture) The top stone of an arch.
| | kick |
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noun
- A hit or strike with the leg or foot or knee.
- A to the knee.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- The ballerina did a high and a leap.
- (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- I finally saw the show. What a !
- I think I sprained something on my latest exercise .
- (internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
- (figurative) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- The car had a nasty the whole way.
- The pool ball took a wild , up off the table.
verb (kicks, kicking, kicked, kicked)
- To strike or hit with, or raise one's foot or leg.
- Did you your brother?
- He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline .
- (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- (internet) To remove a participant from an online activity.
- He was kicked by "chanserv" for flooding.
adjective
- (context, music, in drumming) Pertaining to the foot, activated by a pedal, usually where a hit is caused by a pedal, as in kick-drum, double-kick, etc..
| | kickboard |
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noun
- A small, buoyant board used to support a swimmer's upper body and arms while allowing free kicking movements.
- The introductory swimming instructor carried a pile of kickboards to the pool for the children.
- On pianos and organs, a vertical panel located above the pedals.
- A mouse had gnawed a hole through the to nest inside the organ; she refused to use the pedals nearby.
- On doors, the vinyl panel at the bottom eight inches.
| | kickoff |
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noun
- (alternative spelling of, kick-off)
| | kickstand |
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noun
- A levered bar that can be folded down from the frame of a bicycle or motorcycle to prop it upright when not being ridden.
| | kill |
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noun
- The act of killing.
- The assassin liked to make a clean , and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The hunter delivered the with a pistol shot to the head.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The fox dragged its back to its den.
verb
- To put to death; to extinguish life.
- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- (transitive) To stop, cease, or render void.
- The editor decided to the story.
- ''The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
- (context, transitive, figurative) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- That night, she was dressed to .
- That joke always kills me.
- (transitive) To tell off severely.
- My boss will me if I'm late.
- When she finally got home her dad just about killed her.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- I'm just doing this to time.
- Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
- (context, transitive, figurative) To overpower or overwhelm.
- The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
| | klister |
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noun
- A soft wax used on skis especially for corn snow or crust.
| | knock |
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noun
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood
- I heard a on my door.
- An impact.
- He took a on the head.
- (rfv-sense) the act of hitting a tennis ball with a partner for warm up purposes
- (cricket) a batsman's innings.
- He played a slow but sure of 35.
verb
- To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
- Knock on the door and find out if they're home.
- To bump or impact.
- I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
- (rfv-sense) To hit a tennis ball with a practice partner to warm up before a match.
- (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
- Don't it until you've tried it.
- (rfv-sense) (colloquial) To feature a loud bass section.
| | KO |
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noun (KO's)
- (boxing) A knock out.
verb (KO's, KO'ing, KO'd)
- (transitive) (boxing) To knock somebody out, to render somebody unconscious.
- Joe KO'd the other boxer.
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