Kim vs She - What's the difference?
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, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
* 1901 , Chapter 1
used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
* 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
* 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
), the most common Korean surname.
(personal) A female person or animal.
* , II.ix:
A ship.
(personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
(personal, nonstandard) .
* , Flow , 1990:
A female.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare:
* 2000 , Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1-2, page 189:
As a proper noun Kim
is a given name derived from surnames, a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.As a pronoun she is
a female person or animal.As a noun she is
a female.As an initialism SHE is
initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.kim
English
Alternative forms
* Gim (Korean surname )Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
- Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
- It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
she
English
(wikipedia she)Pronoun
- Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
- I asked Mary, but she''' said that '''she didn't know.
- She could do forty knots in good weather.
- She''' is a beautiful boat, isn't '''she ?
- She''' only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but '''she' s durable.
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make'' happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she''' has built, higher than any ' she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(en noun)- Pat is definitely a she .
- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
- A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.