(superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
(superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
(superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
(superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
(a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
(a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
(a.) 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.
(v. t.) To beget.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
(5) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(6) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(7) Further, metastatic tumors were capable of being successfully grown in a high percentage of cases, which was comparable to the results obtained for other kinds of tumors.
(8) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
(9) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(10) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
(11) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
(12) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
(13) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(14) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(15) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
(16) This factor was named interleukin-8 (IL-8) since it is produced by various kinds of cells in response to inflammatory stimuli including LPS, IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and has pleiotropic effects on T lymphocytes and basophils as well as neutrophils.
(17) Both kinds of experiments show that 1, 25-(OH)2D3 has effects on embryonic bone which are typical for high concentrations of parathyroid hormone (PTH).
(18) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(19) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
(20) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
Makeshift
Definition:
(n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alton Sterling’s family give emotional statement after police killing Someone set up a makeshift podium in the parking lot and a public address system.
(3) When they reached the car, Amburn was heaved into the boot and driven all the way back to Roland's house by the Chiemsee lake, near the Austrian border, where he was kept locked in a makeshift basement cell for four days.
(4) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children play at a makeshift refugee camp in the village of Idomeni, northern Greece.
(6) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(7) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
(8) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(9) In the image above, Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015.
(10) A makeshift field hospital in the square was attacked with teargas.
(11) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(12) The 18-year-old Sheyi Ojo became the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool’s FA Cup history and João Carlos Teixeira was also on the scoresheet in the 3-0 victory as Klopp’s makeshift side secured a fourth-round tie at home to West Ham United.
(13) Vollmer died two weeks ago when a makeshift bomb exploded near his vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq.
(14) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(15) Those that do make it to makeshift camps in the town of Cox’s Bazaar are facing shortages of food and water, and some are suffering from severe malnutrition.
(16) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(17) It was originally three bedrooms, but after we makeshifted it – changing the closets into rooms and stuff like that – we ended up with about seven "bedrooms".
(18) At least 2 million people have been displaced within Syria, many sheltering in bombed-out buildings or makeshift camps.
(19) Outside the prefabricated hut that serves as his makeshift office stand crates containing those treasured bottles of soy sauce, including one from a limited edition to mark the firm's bicentenary in 2007.
(20) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.