Word Finder - kinds

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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.

I love all kinds of music.

They have all kinds of good stuff.

The conception will be made clearer when it is remembered that Aquinas, taught by the mysterious author of the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius, who so marvellously influenced medieval writers, sometimes spoke of a natural revelation, or of reason as a source of truths in themselves mysterious, and was always accustomed to say that reason as well as revelation contained two kinds of knowledge.

That subjected them to all kinds of trouble—not just a spanking, but police involvement, assuming they were older.

Besides, I have been told that "sociables" cost more than other kinds of bicycles.

I've been doing a lot of fishing, of both kinds this week.

We've got all kinds of clandestine technology.

The name is also applied to a special kind of wall-paper, which has an appearance almost like cloth, or, in the more expensive kinds, of velvet.

They'd figure the poor kid would get all kinds of razing in school and all.

Humans had their own kinds of healers.

Apparently he spent a lot of time on the back of a horse, riding his range in all kinds of weather - a fact that prompted more than one comment by townsfolk that he had wasted a good college education.

You get to meet all kinds of interesting people.

Most were either boots of various kinds or running shoes, but there were a few more stylish pairs.

Emotions of all kinds played across her face as the night progressed.

I've been on climbs in all kinds of weather, some all day, rappelling down at dusk, nearly in the dark, with wind and snow trying to blow me off the wall.

We have our own kinds of generators, ones that don't work nearly as well.

Look, I don't have those kinds of friends.

We have a few kinds of prepackaged sandwich meats, but there's a better variety at the counter.

It is estimated that Sardinia pays, in local and general, direct and indirect taxation of all kinds, 23,000,000 lire (920,000), a sum corresponding to 35.44 lire per head.

He then makes his Persian expedition; the Indian campaign gives occasion for descriptions of all kinds of wonders.

These movements are spoken of as different kinds of geotropic curvatures.

Communion is given in both kinds, as throughout the East; likewise, confirmation is administered directly after baptism.

Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria about 930, included "Nubi" among the six kinds of writing which he mentions as current among the Hamitic peoples, and "Nubi" also appears among a list of six writings mentioned in an ancient manuscript now in the Berlin Museum.

The rest are different kinds.

Do you know he already has all kinds of plans for my property?

The conceptions of "element," "compound" and "mixture" became more precise than they had been hitherto; in an element all the atoms are alike, in a compound all the molecules are alike, in a mixture there are different kinds of molecules.

Its most important industrial establishments are the mirror manufactory of St Gobain and the chemical works at Chauny, and the workshops and foundries of Guise, the property of an association of workpeople organized on socialistic lines and producing iron goods of various kinds.

The synod hears appeals and references from presbyteries; and by its discussions and decisions business of various kinds, if not settled, is ripened for consideration and final settlement by the general assembly, the supreme court of the Church.

Indian corn, quinoa, mandioca, possibly the potato, cotton and various fruits, including the strawberry, were already known to the aborigines, but with the conqueror came wheat, barley, oats, flax, many kinds of vegetables, apples, peaches, apricots, pears, grapes, figs, oranges and lemons, together with alfalfa and new grasses for the plains.

In their hurry to obtain wealth, this crowd of office-mongers from the provinces lent themselves to all kinds of bribery and corruption.

The silk fabrics of France hold the first place, particularly the more expensive kinds.

Besides the faculties there are a number of institutions, both state-supported and private, giving higher instruction of various special kinds.

The rules of the Scribes enumerated thirty-nine main kinds of work forbidden on the Sabbath, and each of these prohibitions gave rise to new subtilties.

Ritchie, " that, in the various dialogues in which Plato speaks of immortality, the arguments seem to be of different kinds, and most of them quite unconnected with one another.

There are also many kinds of game birds, pigeons, ducks, geese, plovers and quails.

There are about twenty kinds of night-lizards, and many which hibernate.

Frogs of many kinds are plentiful, the brilliant green frogs being especially conspicuous and noisy.

Australia is rich in snakes, and has more than a hundred different kinds.

Australia produces abundant quantities and nearly all varieties of fruits; but the kinds exported are chiefly oranges, pineapples, bananas and apples.

Tobacco thrives well in New South Wales and Victoria, but kinds suitable for exportation are not largely grown.

The exports of breadstuffs - chiefly to the United Kingdom - exceed six millions per annum, butter two and a half millions, and minerals of all kinds, except gold, six millions.

In old age they appear much ground down; particularly is this the case with women, who chew the different kinds of fibres, of which they make nets and bags.

Here, too, he published, in 1531, his most important work, the Chronica, Zeitbuch and Geschichtsbibel, largely a compilation on the basis of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), and in its treatment of social and religious questions connected with the Reformation, exhibiting a strong sympathy with heretics, and an unexampled fairness to all kinds of freedom in opinion.

Lastly, to pass over unnecessary details, the markings of various kinds to be observed on the lobes of the livers of freshly-slaughtered animals, which are due mainly to the traces left by the subsidiary hepatic ducts and hepatic veins on the liver surface, were described as "holes," "paths," "clubs" and the like.

Granite is the most widely spread of the crystalline rocks; but dikes of various kinds occur, and gneiss, schist and marble are also met with.

The principal jungle products are gutta and rubber of several varieties, and many kinds of rattan.

The Asiatic elephant; the seladang, a bison of a larger type than the Indian gaur; two varieties of rhinoceros; the honey bear (bruang), the tapir, the sambhur (rusa); the speckled deer (kijang), three varieties of mouse-deer (napoh, plandok and kanchil); the gibbon (ungka or wawa'), the siamang, another species of anthropoid ape, the brok or coco-nut monkey, so called because it is trained by the Malays to gather the nuts from the coco-nut trees, the lotong, kra, and at least twenty other kinds of monkey; the binturong (arctictis binturong), the lemur; the Asiatic tiger, the black panther, the leopard, the large wild cat (harimau akar), several varieties of jungle cat; the wild boar, the wild dog; the flying squirrel,.

On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.

The forests literally swarm with insects of all kinds, from cicadae to beautiful butterflies, and from stickand leaf-insects to endless.

The alternate leaves are more or less deeply sinuated or cut in many species, but in some of the deciduous and many of the evergreen kinds are nearly or quite entire on the margin.