kine

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kine"

English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English kyn, kyne, equivalent to ky +‎ -en (plural ending), a double plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

kine

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of cow
   • 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:

     Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kine.

Derived terms

• kinepock
• kine-pox, kinepox
• kith and kine

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement, motion”), or directly from κινέω (kinéō, “I move, put in motion”).

Noun

kine (plural kines)

1. (physics, obsolete) A proposed unit of velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.
   • 1890, E/MJ, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 50, page 169:

     It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […]

   • 1888, The Electrical Engineer, volume 2, page 223:

     The Committee on Mechanical Nomenclature suggest the usage of the term Kine, Bole, and Barad thus:– 1 cm. per sec. = 1 kine.

   • 1888, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, volume 23, number 566, page 330:

     In what respect is the expression “a velocity of one kine,” better than “a velocity of one centimetre per second;”

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪni

Noun

kine (plural kines)

1. (television) Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).

Etymology 4

Noun

kine (plural kines)

1. (linguistics) In kinesics, any of the individual movements composing a kineme.

See also

• da kine
• kine bud

Anagrams

• Enki, Nike, inke

Fula

Noun

kine (Adamawa)

1. nose

References

• Oumaté, Hamham; Nouhou, Amadou; Pohlig, Annie W., 1991, Vocabulaire de base en quatre langues: wandala, fulfulde, français, anglais : Edition Provisoire

Hawaiian Creole

Noun

kine

1. a kind of, type of

   Da truck is small kine weird.

   The truck is a little bit weird.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

kine

1. (Early Scots) alternative form of kyn (“kin”)

Etymology 2

Noun

kine

1. alternative form of kyn (“cows”)

Salar

Noun

kine

1. alternative form of kiyne

Unami

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *kiᐧnyaᐧwi. Cognate with Munsee kíineew (“it is sharp”), Massachusett kēnai (“it is sharp”), Ojibwe giinaa (“it is sharp”), Malecite-Passamaquoddy kineyu (“it is sharp”).

Verb

kine (VII (inanimate-subject intransitive))

1. to be sharp

   Antonym: wikòn

Related terms

• kinanike
• kinhasu (inanimate intransitive verb)
• kinhikàn
• kinhàmën (transitive inanimate verb)
• kinikwte
• kinsu (animate intransitive verb)

References

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “kine”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project