資料來源 : pyDict
以實物;以同樣的方式
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Kind \Kind\, n. [OE. kinde, cunde, AS. cynd. See {Kind}, a.]
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, Are led by
kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden.
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or
humankind. ``Come of so low a kind.'' --Chaucer.
Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7.
She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth.
Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the
kinds be fed. --Emerson.
3. Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety;
description; class; as, there are several kinds of
eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of
government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows
his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser.
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of
beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I
Cor. xv. 39.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the
matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not
rich men philosophers ? --Bacon.
{A kind of}, something belonging to the class of; something
like to; -- said loosely or slightingly.
{In kind}, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as
distinguished from its value in money.
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.
--Arbuthnot.
Syn: Sort; species; class; genus; nature; style; character;
breed; set.
資料來源 : WordNet®
in kind
adv : with something of the same kind; "she pays him back in kind"
[syn: {in a similar way}]