Kind vs Chap - What's the difference?
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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
(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.
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, title= *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
* Steele
(Southern US) A child.
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
* Blackmore
* Lyly
(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
* T. Fuller
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
*1610 , , by Shakespeare
* Cowley
* Shakespeare
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
As nouns the difference between kind and chap
is that kind is child (young person) while chap is (dated|outside|uk|and|australia) a man, a fellow or chap can be a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin or chap can be (archaic) the jaw (often in plural).As a verb chap is
of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.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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* 1000 English basic words ----chap
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from in 16th century English.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}
- If you want to sell, here is your chap .
Usage notes
This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* chappie * chappoEtymology 2
Related to chip .Verb
(chapp)- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].
Derived terms
* chapped * chapstickNoun
(en noun)- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
Derived terms
* chappyEtymology 3
From Northern English .Noun
(en noun)- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .