Word Finder - kind

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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

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This is a strange kind of tobacco.

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A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

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The opening served as a kind of window.

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One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

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Family, lineage.

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Manner.

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Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

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Equivalent means used as response to an action.

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I'll pay in kind for his insult.

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Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

The years had not been kind to him.

What kind of a job do you have now?

He taught that men ought to be kind even to their enemies.

Be kind, and use your wits.

Alex doesn't want this kind of life.

They were very kind to me.

It kind of leaves you in trouble either way, doesn't it?

Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very kind relation.

In those days, people had not learned to be kind to their enemies.

Jonathan said you were taking him to some kind of horse race tomorrow.

Maybe they knew what kind of bait to throw out.

Well, on the one hand, you would be kind of cheesed-off.

I think you are very kind and patient, and I love you very dearly.

The princess is too kind to wish to deprive me of the pleasure of spending the evening with you.

Kind of humbling, don't you think?

What kind of future could she offer a child?

For the first time, it crossed Carmen's mind that he was kind of cute.

She glanced around for some kind of weapon as they walked, and soon came up with a walking stick.

So they threw their sabots, a kind of clog shoe, into the machinery to break it—an act that gave us the word sabotage.

Chauvinistic, no doubt, but it was kind of nice to be looked after.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

I saw him many times after that, and he was always a good friend to me; indeed, I was thinking of him when I called Boston "the City of Kind Hearts."

But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like--people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past.

Kind of late for a walk, isn't it?

He said Alex was the kind of man who would crawl into bed with a woman on the first date.

They advanced in a great swarm, having been joined by many more of their kind, and they flew straight over Jim's head to where the others were standing.

What kind of comment was that to make about her brother?

Over time, we will feel that kind of confidence in this kind of system.

He has such a kind heart!

In answer to Rostov's renewed questions, Denisov said, laughing, that he thought he remembered that some other fellow had got mixed up in it, but that it was all nonsense and rubbish, and he did not in the least fear any kind of trial, and that if those scoundrels dared attack him he would give them an answer that they would not easily forget.

Oh, my brave, kind friends, and he leaned his head against the shoulder of one of the men like a child.

I figured that if Giddon was using a pseudonym, he would have to either do his banking with his own name or fill out some kind of paperwork to do business under another name.

Though nothing of the kind had happened to her she was regarded in that light, and had even herself come to believe that she had suffered much in life.

And she is such a grande dame, so kind, and evidently likes me so much.

He saw the kind faces of those whom he loved.

He, who made every one happy in a beautiful, unobtrusive way, was most kind and tender to Miss Sullivan and me.

As far as he knew, she made a habit of this kind of activity.

At one end of the field was a lean-to shelter with some kind of equipment stored under it.

In an era when cameras were cumbersome and the number of channels on TV could be counted on one hand with enough fingers left over to snap, very little video of any kind was seen.

Conversation of this kind, interesting to no one yet unavoidable, continued all through teatime.

I might enjoy that kind of banter with a real person I will never meet, talking to me from a distant state.

Natasha did not want to go, but could not refuse Marya Dmitrievna's kind offer which was intended expressly for her.

Was it some kind of rhetorical flourish, just words that sounded good?

But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.

The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being.

He frequented every kind of society, drank much, bought pictures, engaged in building, and above all--read.

And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether.

I did not know whether they had come to sow a crop of winter rye, or some other kind of grain recently introduced from Iceland.

On one of his estates the three hundred serfs were liberated and became free agricultural laborers--this being one of the first examples of the kind in Russia.

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.