kind

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 kīnd

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
    — What kind of (a) person are you?
  2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
    — The opening served as a kind of window.
  3. One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. archaic
    — Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.
  4. Family, lineage. archaic
    — My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
  5. Manner. archaic
  6. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
    — in kind
    with goods or services instead of with money
  7. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
    — in kind
    in a similar manner
  8. Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
  9. The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
    — The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
  10. Food in a particular category. Caribbean,in-compounds
    — Fish kind was what she ate then.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
    — Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
  2. Affectionate.
    — a kind man; a kind heart
  3. Favorable.
    — Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe: / Go valiant Souldier, go before and charge / The fainting army of that foolish King.
  4. Mild, gentle, forgiving
    — The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
  5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
    — a horse kind in harness
  6. Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. obsolete
    — it becommeth sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind tast.

词形变化

kinds plural kinde alternative,obsolete kynd alternative,obsolete kynde alternative,obsolete kinder comparative kindest superlative kinde alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
genre sort type derivative generation offspring child
衍生词
any old kind of way blood kind breadkind error of the first kind error of the second kind first-of-its-kind five-of-a-kind five of a kind four of a kind four-of-a-kind grant-in-kind grant in kind in-kind in kind -kind kinda kind of kind of like many-kinded of a kind of its kind one kind one-of-a-kind one of a kind perpetual motion machine of the first kind perpetual motion machine of the second kind some kind of Stirling number of the second kind subkind three-of-a-kind three of a kind two-of-a-kind two of a kind underkind what kind of what kind of music do you like be cruel to be kind be kind, rewind kindful kindhearted kindish kindless kindly kindness kind regards kindship kindsome overkind totally kind day unkind would you be so kind as to you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
相关词
kin kindhood kindred kinship

词源

词源 1
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English cennan (“to bear, give birth”).
Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.
词源 2
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).
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