A kind of
Translation- A kind of
- Kind Kind, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.]
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
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He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.'' --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7. [1913 Webster]
She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. [1913 Webster]
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39. [1913 Webster]
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
{A kind of}, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
{In kind}, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. [1913 Webster]
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. [1913 Webster]
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kind of — or[sort of] {adv. phr.}, {informal} Almost but not quite; rather. * /A guinea pig looks kind of like a rabbit, but it has short ears./ * /Bob was kind of tired when he finished the job./ * /The teacher sort of frowned but then smiled./ * /Mary… … Словарь американских идиом
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