keep going
1: continue uninterrupted; "The disease will run on unchecked"; "The party kept going until 4 A.M." [syn: {run on}] 2: suffice for a period between two points; "This money will keep us going for anoth...
keep guard
1: watch over so as to protect; "We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves"; "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen" [syn: {stand guard}, {stand watch}, {stand sentinel}]
keep in line
1: control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; "She manipulates her boss"; "She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up"; "The teacher kn...
keep mum
1: refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" [syn: {close up}, {clam up}, {dummy up}, {shut up}, {belt up}, {button up}, {be quiet}] [ant: {open ...
keep note
1: maintain in the forefront of one's awareness; "He kept note of the location of the soldiers"
keep off
1: refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day" [syn: {avoid}] 2: refrain from entering or walking onto; "keep off the grass"; "s...
keep on
1: allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our gr...
keep one's distance
1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's eyes off}, {keep one's hands off}, {stay away}]
keep one's eyes off
1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's distance}, {keep one's hands off}, {stay away}]
keep one's eyes open
1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes peeled}, {keep one's eyes skinned}]
keep one's eyes peeled
1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes skinned}, {keep one's eyes open}]
keep one's eyes skinned
1: pay attention; be watchful; "Keep your eyes peeled for any policemen" [syn: {keep one's eyes peeled}, {keep one's eyes open}]
keep one's hands off
1: stay clear of, avoid; "Keep your hands off my wife!"; "Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous" [syn: {stand back}, {keep one's eyes off}, {keep one's distance}, {stay away}]
keep one's mouth shut
1: refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information; "Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!" [syn: {keep quiet}, {shut one's mouth}] [ant: {...
keep one's nose to the grindstone
1: work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" [syn: {plug away}, {peg away}, {slog}, {keep one's shoulder to the wheel}]
keep one's shoulder to the wheel
1: work doggedly or persistently; "She keeps plugging away at her dissertation" [syn: {plug away}, {peg away}, {slog}, {keep one's nose to the grindstone}]
keep open
1: retain rights to; "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger" [syn: {hold open}, {keep}, {save}]
keep out
1: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: {exclude}, {shut out}, {shut}] ...
keep pace
1: maintain the same pace; "The child cannot keep step with his big brother" [syn: {keep step}]
keep quiet
1: refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information; "Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!" [syn: {shut one's mouth}, {keep one's mouth shu...
keep step
1: maintain the same pace; "The child cannot keep step with his big brother" [syn: {keep pace}]
keep tabs on
1: keep a record on or watch attentively; "The government keeps tabs on the dissidents"
keep to oneself
1: shun the company of others; "The new student keeps to herself" 2: withhold information; "I kept your little secreto to myself all these years"
keep up
1: maintain a required pace or level; "He could not keep up and dropped out of the race" 2: lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negociations as long as possible"; "pr...
keeper
1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's keeper?" 2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn: {custodian}, {steward}]
keeping
1: conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" 2: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: {guardianship}, {safekeeping}] 3: the...
keepsake
1: something of sentimental value [syn: {souvenir}, {token}, {relic}]
keeshond
1: a spitz-type dog having a shaggy grayish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland [also: {keeshonden} (pl)]
Keflex
1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...
Keflin
1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...
Keftab
1: an oral cephalosporin (trade names Keflex and Keflin and Keftab) commonly prescribe for mild to moderately severe infections of the skin or ears or throat or lungs or urinary tract [syn: {cephalexi...
keg
1: the quantity contained in a keg [syn: {kegful}] 2: small cask or barrel
Kegel exercises
1: exercises for women designed to improve the ability to hold urine [syn: {pubococcygeus exercises}]
kegful
1: the quantity contained in a keg [syn: {keg}]
kei apple
1: vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits [syn: {kei apple bush}, {Dovyalis caffra}]
kei apple bush
1: vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits [syn: {kei apple}, {Dovyalis caffra}]
keister
1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside},...
Keith Rupert Murdoch
1: United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931) [syn: {Murdoch}, {Rupert Murdoch}]
Kekchi
1: a member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Kekchi people
Kekule
1: German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896) [syn: {Friedrich August Kekule}, {Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz}]
Kekule formula
1: a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached [syn: {benzene formula}, {benzene ring}, {benzene nucleus}]
Keller
1: United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion...
Kellogg
1: United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-19...
Kelly
1: United States circus clown (1898-1979) [syn: {Emmett Kelly}, {Weary Willie}] 2: United States film actress who retired when she married into the royal family of Monaco (1928-1982) [syn: {Grace Kell...
keloid
1: raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair [syn: {cheloid}]
kelp
1: large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
kelp greenling
1: common food and sport fish of western coast of North America [syn: {Hexagrammos decagrammus}]
kelpie
1: (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: {kelpy}] 2: an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears
kelpwort
1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kali}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}]
kelpy
1: (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders [syn: {kelpie}]
Kelt
1: a member of a European people who occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre-Roman times [syn: {Celt}]
kelter
1: in working order; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" [syn: {kilter}]
kelvin
1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: {K}] 2: British physicist who invented the Kelvin scale of temperature and pioneered undersea tele...
Kelvin scale
1: a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees [syn: {absolute scale}]
Kemadrin
1: drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in parkinsonism [syn: {procyclidine}]
Kemal Ataturk
1: Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) [syn: {Ataturk}, {Kemal Pasha}, {Mustafa Kemal}]
Kemal Pasha
1: Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) [syn: {Ataturk}, {Kemal Ataturk}, {Mustafa Kemal}]
kempt
1: (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard" [syn: {tidy}, {trim}]
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ken
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}]
Ken Elton 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 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}]
Ken Russell
1: English film director (born in 1927) [syn: {Russell}, {Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell}]
kenaf
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...
Kenalog
1: a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent [syn: {triamcinolone}, {Aristocort}, {Aristopak}]
Kendal
1: a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant [syn: {Kendal green}]
Kendal green
1: a green dye, often used to color cloth, which is obtained from the woad plant [syn: {Kendal}]
Kendall
1: United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972) [syn: {Edward Kendall}, {Edward Calvin Kendall}]
Kendall rank correlation
1: a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings [syn: {tau coefficient of correlation}, {Kendall's tau}]
Kendall test
1: any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)
Kendall's tau
1: a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings [syn: {tau coefficient of correlation}, {Kendall rank correlation}]
Kendrew
1: English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917) [syn: {Sir John Cowdery Kendrew}]
Kennedia
1: genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers [syn: {genus Kennedia}, {Kennedya}, {genus Kennedya}]
Kennedia coccinea
1: prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania [syn: {coral vine}]
Kennedia prostrata
1: hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with bright scarlet-pink flowers [syn: {scarlet runner}, {running postman}]
Kennedy
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. ...
Kennedy Interrnational
1: a large airport on Long Island east of New York City [syn: {Kennedy}, {Kennedy International Airport}]
Kennedya
1: genus of Australian woody vines having showy red or purplish flowers [syn: {Kennedia}, {genus Kennedia}, {genus Kennedya}]
kennel
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}]
Kennelly
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...
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
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}]
Kennesaw Mountain
1: battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Kenneth Bancroft Clark
1: United States psychologist (born in Panama) whose research persuaded the Supreme Court that segregated schools were discriminatory (1914-) [syn: {Clark}, {Kenneth 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}]
Kenneth David Kaunda
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}]
Kenneth Grahame
1: English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) [syn: {Grahame}]
Kenneth Kaunda
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}]
Kenneth Roberts
1: United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957) [syn: {Roberts}]
Kennewick
1: a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River
keno
1: a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: {lotto}, {bingo}, {beano}]
kenogenesis
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...
kentan
1: east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals [syn: {tiger lily}, {devil lily}, {Lilium lancifolium}]
Kentish
1: one of the major dialects of Old English [syn: {Jutish}] 2: a dialect of Middle English
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}]
Kentucky black bass
1: a variety of black bass [syn: {spotted black bass}, {Micropterus pseudoplites}]
Kentucky blue
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...
Kentucky bluegrass
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}...
Kentucky coffee tree
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...
Kentucky Derby
1: an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky yellowwood
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}]
Kentucy blue grass
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...
Kenya
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}]
Kenya fever
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...
Kenyan
1: of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people; "Kenyan mountains" n : a native or inhabitant of Kenya
Kenyan shilling
1: the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents [syn: {shilling}]
Kenyapithecus
1: extinct primate having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors; fossils found in Kenya [syn: {genus Kenyapithecus}]
Kenyata
1: Kenyan statesman and the first president of independent Kenya (1893-1978) [syn: {Jomo Kenyata}]
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