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Nex vs Kex - What's the difference?

nex | kex |

As an adjective nex

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a proper noun nex

is an abbreviation for Navy Exchange, a department store chain operated by the United States Navy exclusively for current and former members of the United States Military, military families, allies of the United States, and certain other individuals.

As a noun kex is

the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.

nex

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (archaic)

    • Proper noun

  • (military, US) An abbreviation for Navy Exchange, a department store chain operated by the United States Navy exclusively for current and former members of the United States Military, military families, allies of the United States, and certain other individuals.
  • :I'm going to the Nex to do my Christmas shopping.
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    kex

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kix

    Noun

    (kexes)
  • The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
  • (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
  • (rare) A dry husk or covering.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
    • On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix .
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