Ken vs Keg - What's the difference?
ken | keg |
Knowledge or perception.
Range of sight.
To know, perceive or understand.
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Addison
* Shakespeare
(slang, UK, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
English irregular verbs
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A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.
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To store in a keg.
* 2011 , Carla Kelly, Coming Home for Christmas (page 116)
* 2015 , Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew (page 228)
As a symbol ken
is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for kenya.As a noun keg is
a round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer.As a verb keg is
to store in a keg.ken
English
Etymology 1
Northern and Scottish dialects from (etyl) . The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.Noun
(-)Usage notes
In common usage a (fossil word), found only in the phrase .Coordinate terms
* (nautical range of sight) (l)Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Verb
- I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
- We ken them from afar.''
- 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Derived terms
* beken * foreken * kenned * kenning * misken * underken * unkennedReferences
* * * * *Etymology 2
Perhaps from kennel.Noun
(en noun)keg
English
(wikipedia keg)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* barrelDerived terms
* keg standVerb
- He gestured toward the empty chair and the other officers began passing him their kegged beef and ship's biscuit.
- Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.
