Ken vs Keno - What's the difference?
ken | keno |
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 gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
* 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 41:
As a symbol ken
is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for kenya.As a noun keno is
a gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.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)keno
English
Noun
(-)- Memories of this night are extremely hazy. All I have, for guide-pegs, is a pocketful of keno cards and cocktail napkins, all covered with scribbled notes.