kind
/kaɪnd/ noun A1- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. · What kind of (a) person are you?· What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. · The opening served as a kind of window.
- Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter. · in kind· I don't have any money but I can pay in kind by washing the dishes.
- Equivalent means used as response to an action. · in kind· I'll pay in kind for his insult.
- Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
- The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator. · The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
- Food in a particular category.
Plural kinds
From the library
She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts.
“It is kind of you to wear that,” said Boq.
Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
But the little woman evidently expected her to answer; so Dorothy said, with hesitation, “You are very kind, but there must be some mistake.
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