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Definition: Kine |
KineNoun1. Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age: "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Kine (Heb. sing. parah, i.e., "fruitful"), mentioned in Pharaoh's dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes "buffaloes," which fed on the reeds and sedge by the river's brink. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Fine Arts | A motion-picture film made by photographing images on the face of the picture tube in a television monitor. . . . Also called kine (slang) and television recording. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: KineSynonyms: cattle (n), cows (n), oxen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Kine |
| English words defined with "kine": Kee, Kie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "kine": Goodman's Fields ♦ kinescope recording ♦ telerecording, television recording. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "kine": Ky. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Kine" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkmen (insult, offense). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Delegacija Svekineskog kongresa narodnih predstavnika NR Kine i grada Pekinga u Jugoslaviji (1957) Kine Smiles (1922) | |
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| "Kine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Kine" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 53.85% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 38.46% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "kine" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Kine | Last name | 200 | 33,509 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
da kine | 81 | kine starlee | 3 |
kine | 67 | hawaii kine | 3 |
hawaiian kine | 39 | concept kine | 3 |
105 kine | 13 | joke kine local | 3 |
da kine backpack | 9 | da kine go go pack | 2 |
bud kine | 8 | imm kine | 2 |
105 hawaiian kine | 7 | em hip hop kine kurd | 2 |
105.1 kine | 6 | da guide kine pack | 2 |
bail bond da kine | 6 | kine fm | 2 |
kine radio | 6 | 2 3 die kine roller | 2 |
local kine grind | 6 | da kine pack | 2 |
local kine grindz | 4 | da kine rag | 2 |
da kine bag | 4 | kine prepa | 2 |
kine trevor | 4 | da jet kine way | 2 |
hawaiin kine | 4 | hawaiian kine radio | 2 |
kine local recipe | 4 | hellebust kine | 2 |
105.1 hawaiian kine | 3 | 105 fm kine | 2 |
cookie kine school | 3 | da kine back pack | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "kine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ماشية (cattle, livestock). (various references) | |
Czech | Krávy. (various references) | |
Farsi | گاوان . (various references) | |
French | kiné (kinescope), cinégramme (kinescope recording), Bétail. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֱקר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Tehenek, tehén (bovine, bovine animal, cow). (various references) | |
Manx | maase (cattle), booaghyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inekay.(various references) | |
Spanish | Vacas (cattle). (various references) | |
Thai | โคหรือกระบือ (คำเก่า). (various references) | |
Turkish | Ýnekler. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai katefagon ai epta boeV ai aiscrai kai leptai taV epta boaV taV prwtaV taV kalaV kai eklektaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quae devoratis et consumptis prioribus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The whiche the rather deuowrid and wastid, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the .vij. leane and euell fauored kyne ate vpp the first .vij. fatt kyne |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the lean and the ill favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga vaca nga maniwang ug nga mangil-ad, misubad sa nahaunang pito ka vaca nga matambok: |
| Croatian | I sedam mršavih i ružnih krava proždru prvih sedam debelih krava. |
| Danish | og de magre og usle Køer åd de syv første, fede Køer; |
| Dutch | En die ranke en lelijke koeien aten die eerste zeven vette koeien op; |
| Finnish | Ja nämä laihat ja rumat lehmät söivät ne ensimmäiset, ne lihavat lehmät. |
| French | Les vaches décharnées et laides mangèrent les sept premières vaches qui étaient grasses. |
| German | Und die sieben mageren und häßlichen Kühe fraßen auf die sieben ersten, fetten Kühe. |
| Haitian Creole | Vye vach mèg yo manje bèl vach gra yo. |
| Hungarian | És elnyelék az ösztövér és rút tehenek, az elébbi hét kövér tehenet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sapi-sapi yang kurus itu memakan habis ketujuh sapi yang gemuk tadi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka oleh lembu yang kurus dan keji itupun habislah dimakannya akan ketujuh ekor lembu tambun yang naik mula-mula itu. |
| Italian | Le vacche magre e brutte divorarono le prime sette vacche, quelle grasse. |
| Maori | Na ka kainga nga kau e whitu o mua, nga mea momona, e nga kau kiroki, e nga mea kino: |
| Norwegian | Og de magre og stygge kyr åt op de syv første, fete kyr. |
| Portuguese | E as vacas magras e feias comiam as primeiras sete vacas gordas; |
| Rumanian | Vacile cele sfrijite wi slabe au mkncat pe cele wapte vaci dintki, cari erau grase. |
| Russian | Й УЯЕМЙ ФПЭЙЕ Й ИХ"ЩЕ ЛПТПЧЩ ТЕЦОЙИ УЕНШ ЛПТПЧ ФХЮОЩИ; |
| Spanish | Entonces las vacas flacas y feas devoraron a las siete primeras vacas gordas. |
| Swedish | Och de magra och fula korna åto upp de sju första, feta korna. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "kine": kinema, kinemas, kinematic, kinematical, kinematically, kinematics, kines, kinescope, kinescoped, kinescopes, kinescoping, kineses, kinesic, kinesics, kinesiologies, kinesiology, kinesis, kinestheses, kinesthesia, kinesthesias, kinesthesis, kinesthetic, kinesthetically, kinetic, kinetically, kineticist, kineticists, kinetics, kinetin, kinetins, kinetochore, kinetochores, kinetoplast, kinetoplasts, kinetoscope, kinetoscopes, kinetosome, kinetosomes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "kine": alkine, cytokine, lymphokine. (additional references) | |
Words containing "kine": alkines, balkiness, balkinesses, bulkiness, bulkinesses, buskined, cheekiness, cheekinesses, cockiness, cockinesses, corkiness, corkinesses, crankiness, crankinesses, creakiness, creakinesses, cytokines, cytokineses, cytokinesis, cytokinetic, diakineses, diakinesis, duskiness, duskinesses, dyskinesia, dyskinesias, dyskinetic, electrokinetic, electrokinetics, finickiness, finickinesses, flakiness, flakinesses, freakiness, freakinesses, friskiness, friskinesses, funkiness, funkinesses, gawkiness, gawkinesses, hokiness, hokinesses, huskiness, huskinesses, hydrokinetic, hyperkineses, hyperkinesia, hyperkinesias, hyperkinesis, hyperkinetic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-n" | |
-1 letter: ink, ken, kin. | |
-2 letters: en, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-n" | |
+1 letter: eikon, eking, enoki, inked, inker, inkle, kines, knife, koine, liken, minke, pekin, reink, skein. | |
+2 letters: alkine, deking, dinked, dinkey, eikons, enokis, finked, hankie, honkie, inkers, inkier, inkjet, inkles, intake, invoke, jerkin, jinked, jinker, junkie, kelvin, keying, kidney, kilned, kinase, kinder, kindle, kinema, kinged, kinked, kippen, kirned, kitten, knifed, knifer, knifes, knives, koines, likens, linked, linker, minkes, nicked, nickel, nicker, nickle, oinked, pekins, pinked, pinken, pinker, pinkey, pinkie, punkie, reinks, reknit, relink, sicken, silken, sinker, skeins, tinker, tinkle, unlike, welkin, winked, winker, winkle. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Bible Trace 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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