A KIND OF

Definition: A KIND OF

A KIND OF

1. Something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: A KIND OF

You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

- Mr. Wentworth just told me to come in here and say that there was trouble at the mill, that's all - I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition! (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

He gets a kind of waxy build up in his ears. (Father Ted; writing credit: Graham Linehan; Arthur Mathews)

Hey, it's a kind of magic! (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen)

You see, we can become a kind of council. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

There's a kind of hush all over the world tonight (There's a Kind of Hush; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

I feel a kind of fear (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba)

A kind of world where Mom and Dad (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman)

You got a kind of walk that's just so fine (Precious Love; performing artist: Bob Welch; writing credit: Bob Welch)

My love must be a kind of blind love ("I Only Have Eyes for You"; performing artist: The Flamingos)

Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. (references; author: unknown)

A Kind of Loving (1962)

There's A Kind of Hush (performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

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Books

• Chicken Tommy & Other Stories: A Kind of History of Humboldt Twp., Illinois (reference)

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Taigichuan (Tai Chi), a kind of slow-motion martial art, is regarded as a healthy exercise ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

We must think of it as a kind of sign. Credit: Library of Congress.

A kind of jealousy of her daughter for one strange moment possessed her -- jealousy of youth and love and opening life : or the evening seemed to halo and caress her. Credit: Library of Congress.

That's it, young fellah, exactly! -- a kind of a thortful, sad look, as if money ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Ugly Americanism (ug'-li a-mer'-i-can-ism), n. a kind of hypocrisy where the richest country in the world talks about human rights while developing a neutron bomb / a WIN poster by Peg Averill. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is a kind of domestic conquest, with this difference, that an usurper can never have right on his side, it being no usurpation, but where one is got into the possession of what another has right to. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was looked on as sufficiently belonging to the place to make his merits and prospects a kind of common concern.

It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril.

He was a wretch, a kind of mendicant musician, a lazy ragamuffin, who beat her, and who left her, as she had taken him, with disgust.

The urging of that word judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

And a kind of insurance developed in these nights.

About noon I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle, drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.

The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.

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Health

Vaseline  is a kind of petrolatum, but is likely to irritate the eyes if applied. (references)

Pregnancy is a kind of “stress test” that often predicts future diabetic problems. (references)

During normal metabolism, the body produces a kind of molecule called a free radical. (references)

Business

Telecom companies like Elektrosvyaz Primorskogo Kraya, attract financing through issuing and selling a kind of securities to buyers seeking telephone services. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Human Rights Committee and other observers state that the police employ unwarranted deadly force against criminal suspects in a kind of uniformed vigilantism, or in some cases because criminals refused to pay police "commissions" or bribes to ignore criminal activity. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chinese 

�"飯 (a kind of food popular among believers in Islam), 太極劍 (a kind of traditional Chinese sword-play), 太極拳 (a kind of traditional Chinese shadowboxing), 仙草 (a kind of plant used as a medicinal herb in ancient times). (various references)

Finnish

nautintaoikeus (right of enjoyment, usufructuary right), käyttöoikeus (enjoyment, right to use). (various references)

French

usus (a kind of usufruct), droit d'usage continu (a kind of usufruct). (various references)

German

so eine, so ein (such a), eine art. (various references)

Guarani

sopa, paraguái. (various references)

Hungarian

-fajta, -féle. (various references)

Indonesian

sebangsa (a type of, sort of). (various references)

Italian

diritto di utenza (a kind of usufruct, personal right to make useof something belonging to another, right of user), diritto di usufrutto (a kind of usufruct, personal right to make useof something belonging to another, right of user), diritto di godimento (a kind of usufruct, personal right to make useof something belonging to another, right of user). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荻 (a kind of plant), �'�魚 (a kind of woman who pretends to be all sweet and innocent and naive), 浪花節 (a kind of sung narrative popular during Edo period, naniwabushi), 山女 (a kind of trout). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おぎ (a kind of plant), なにわぶし (a kind of sung narrative popular during Edo period, naniwabushi), かまとと (a kind of woman who pretends to be all sweet and innocent and naive), やまめ (a kind of trout). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay indkay ofay.(various references)

Portuguese

direito de uso (a kind of usufruct, personal right to make useof something belonging to another, right of user). (various references)

Scottish

sladhaigeadh (a kind of custard spread over bread), slabhagan (a kind of reddish sea-weed), sgeaunag (a kind of sea weed), murlag, murluinn (a kind of basket), meirneal (a kind of hawk), falmair (a kind of fish), dosdan (a kind of food given to horses), cuireall (a kind of pack-saddle), coiliobhar (a kind of gun). (various references)

Swedish

ett slags, en sorts. (various references)

Wolof

fonde (a kind of porridge). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: daikon.

-2 letters: danio.

-3 letters: akin, dank, dink, dona, fado, fain, fano, fido, find, fink, fino, foin, fond, ikon, info, kadi, kaif, kain, kaon, kina, kind, kino, koan, naif, naoi, nodi, oink.

-4 letters: ado, aid, ain, and, ani, dak, din, don, fad, fan, fid, fin, fon, ink, ion, kaf, kid, kif, kin, koa, koi, nod.