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1: range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: {cognizance}] 2: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: {sight}] [also: {kent}, {kenning}, {kenned}]

1: United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) [syn: {Kesey}, {Ken Kesey}]

1: United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) [syn: {Kesey}, {Ken Elton Kesey}]

1: English film director (born in 1927) [syn: {Russell}, {Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell}]

1: fiber from an East Indian plant Hibiscus cannabinus [syn: {deccan hemp}] 2: valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation [syn: {kanaf}, {deccan hemp}, {bimli}, {bimli hemp}, {I...

1: a national park in Alaska having mountains and whale watching and ancient Indian copper mines

1: a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent [syn: {triamcinolone}, {Aristocort}, {Aristopak}]

1: a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant [syn: {Kendal green}]

1: a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant [syn: {Kendal}]

1: United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) [syn: {Edward Kendall}, {Edward Calvin Kendall}]

1: a nonparametric measure of partial correlation

1: a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings [syn: {tau coefficient of correlation}, {Kendall's tau}]

1: any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)

1: a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings [syn: {tau coefficient of correlation}, {Kendall rank correlation}]

1: English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917) [syn: {Sir John Cowdery Kendrew}]

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1: genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers [syn: {genus Kennedia}, {Kennedya}, {genus Kennedya}]

1: prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania [syn: {coral vine}]

1: hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers [syn: {scarlet runner}, {running postman}]

1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: {Jack Kennedy}, {John Fitzgerald Kennedy}, {JFK}, {President Kennedy}, {President John F. ...

1: a large airport on Long Island east of New York City [syn: {Kennedy}, {Kennedy Interrnational}]

1: a large airport on Long Island east of New York City [syn: {Kennedy}, {Kennedy International Airport}]

1: genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers [syn: {Kennedia}, {genus Kennedia}, {genus Kennedya}]

1: outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog [syn: {doghouse}, {dog house}] v : put up in a kennel; "kennel a dog" [also: {kennelling}, {kennelled}]

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1: United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio...

1: a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length [syn: {Heaviside layer}, {E layer}, {E region}]

1: battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston

1: United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-) [syn: {Clark}, {Kenneth Clark}]

1: United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-) [syn: {Clark}, {Kenneth Bancroft Clark}]

1: statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924) [syn: {Kaunda}, {Kenneth Kaunda}]

1: English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) [syn: {Grahame}]

1: statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (born in 1924) [syn: {Kaunda}, {Kenneth David Kaunda}]

1: United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957) [syn: {Roberts}]

1: a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River

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1: a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: {lotto}, {bingo}, {beano}]

1: introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) [s...

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1: east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals [syn: {tiger lily}, {devil lily}, {Lilium lancifolium}]

1: one of the major dialects of Old English [syn: {Jutish}] 2: a dialect of Middle English

1: a resident of Kentucky

1: a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses [syn: {Bluegrass State}, {KY}]

1: a variety of black bass [syn: {spotted black bass}, {Micropterus pseudoplites}]

1: valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures [syn: {Kentucky blueg...

1: valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures [syn: {Kentucky blue}...

1: handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute [syn: {bonduc...

1: an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky

1: flat-podded green bean [syn: {Kentucky wonder bean}]

1: flat-podded green bean [syn: {Kentucky wonder}]

1: small handsome round-headed deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye [syn: {gopherwood}, {Cladrastis lutea}, {Cladrastis kentukea}]

1: valuable meadow and pasture grass in Europe and especially central United States having tall stalks and slender bright green leaves; a chief constituent in lawn grass mixtures [syn: {Kentucky blueg...

1: a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya [syn: {Republic of Kenya}]

1: a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals [syn: {Marse...

1: of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people; "Kenyan mountains" n : a native or inhabitant of Kenya

1: monetary unit in Kenya

1: the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents [syn: {shilling}]

1: extinct primate having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors; fossils found in Kenya [syn: {genus Kenyapithecus}]

1: Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978) [syn: {Jomo Kenyata}]