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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
*:I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
(label) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
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*:And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede // and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde
(senseid)Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
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Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.
Affectionate.
* Goldsmith
* Waller
Favorable.
mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
* Holland
Not good; unfavorable; negative.
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, title= Not suitable or fitting.
Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
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, title= Unhealthy.
Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
Evil; wicked.
Faulty; not functional.
(of food) , rotten, overripe.
(of breath) , foul.
(informal) Bold and daring.
(of a, need or want) Severe, urgent.
Badly.
(slang) error, mistake
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(countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
* {{quote-book, title=International Economics: Global Markets and Competition
, first=Henry
, last=Thompson
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=RQeYBbSlXLIC&lpg=PA97&dq=%22economic%20bad%22&pg=PA97v=onepage&q=%22economic%20bad%22&f=false
, page=97
, year=2011
, edition=3rd
, publisher=World Scientific
, passage=Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad . Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
}}
* {{quote-book, title=Economics
, author=William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LgaZaie5V1YC&lpg=PA4&dq=bads&pg=PA4v=onepage&q=bads&f=false
, page=4
, year=2011
, edition=9th
, publisher=Cengage Learning
, passage=An economic bad' is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of ' bads : pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.
}}
(rfm-sense) (slang) Fantastic.
(archaic) .
(British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
* 1876 , The Gloucester Journal'', Oct. 7, 1876, reported in William John Thomas, Doran (John), Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, ''Notes and Queries ,
As a noun kind
is child (young person).As a verb bad is
to simulate.kind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . See also kin.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
Usage notes
In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression in kind.Synonyms
* genre * sort * type * derivative (1) and/or (2) * generation * offspring * child * See alsoDerived terms
* in kind * kind of * kindaEtymology 2
From (etyl) , from cynd.Adjective
(er)- a kind''' man; a '''kind heart
- Yet was he kind , or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was his fault.
- O cruel Death, to those you take more kind / Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
- a horse kind in harness
- It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
- (Chaucer)
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* kindhearted * kindliness * kindly * kindnessExternal links
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*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----bad
English
(wikipedia bad)Etymology 1
From (etyl) bad, ).Adjective
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}
- Lard is bad'''' for you. Smoking is '''bad''' for you, too. Grapes are '''bad for dogs but not for humans.
Usage notes
The comparative badder and superlative baddest are nonstandard.Synonyms
* (not good) unfavorable, negative * * (not suitable or fitting) * * wicked, evil, vile, vicious * (not functional) faulty * (of food) rotten * (of breath) malodorous, foul * badass * (of a need or want) severe, urgent, dire (to be assigned) * false * spurious * disgusting * wrong * corrupt * ill * base * abandoned * vicious * abominable * detestable * deficient * inferior * lousy * off * poor * punk * substandard * unacceptable * ungodly * unsatisfactory * wanting * wretched * See alsoAntonyms
* good * right * worthy * competent * benevolent * true * honest * just * sincere * beneficial * advantageous * profitable * virtuous * reputable * upright * propitious * choice * excellent * exceptional * first-class * first-rate * premium * prime * superior * adequate * sufficientSee also
* astray * base * bum * contemptible * defective * despicable * dirty * execrable * faulty * flawed * inadequate * insufficient * lacking * lesser * low-grade * mediocre * par * reprehensible * scurrilous * second-rate * under * unspeakable * useless * valueless * villainous * worthlessDerived terms
* bad actor * bad apple * bad beat * bad blood * bad boy * bad breath * bad check * bad debt * baddie * bad egg * bad ending * bad eye * bad fairy * bad faith * bad for you * bad guy * bad hair day * bad hat * bad iron * bad joke * bad language * bad light * bad lot * bad luck * bad man * bad-mannered * bad manners * bad medicine * bad money * bad-mouth * badness * bad news * bad off * bad penny * bad-tempered * Bad Thing * bad to the bone * go bad * not bad * too badAdverb
- I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
Noun
(-)- Sorry, my bad !
Etymology 2
Probably identical to bad , etymology 1, above, especially in the sense "bold, daring".Adjective
(badder)- You is (SIC) bad , man!
- Also Bek is "bad " at Madden.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Verb
(head)Etymology 4
Verb
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- A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect c»me out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ' badding' ' walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial : to ' '''bad''' ' walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called » 'bannut,' and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ' Come an' ' bad the bannuts.'