Kin vs Lin - What's the difference?
kin | lin |
Race; family; breed; kind.
(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
* Francis Bacon
One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Kind; sort; manner; way.
Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
* 1840 , Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)
To desist (from something), stop.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To cease; leave off.
A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
A waterfall, or cataract.
A steep ravine.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between kin and lin
is that kin is pain while lin is flax or lin can be ling (fish).kin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) kin, kyn, ken, kun, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- You are of kin , and so a friend to their persons.
Derived terms
* akin * kind * kindred * kinfolk * kinship * kinsman * kinswoman * kith and kin * next of kinSee also
* kith * clanExternal links
*Adjective
(-)- It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Riemann)
- If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin .
Anagrams
* ink English three-letter words ----lin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From Irish or Gaelic.Alternative forms
* linn * lynNoun
(en noun)- a roaring lin