What's the difference between kind and meek?

Kind


Definition:

  • (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?

Meek


Definition:

  • (superl.) Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.
  • (superl.) Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face.
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Meeken

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meek will play an instrumental role in the selection of a Project Canvas chief executive.
  • (2) Americano by James Meek At home, first thing, I prepare my secret vice.
  • (3) Meek, the former chief policy partner at Ofcom who MediaGuardian.co.uk revealed was joining the venture in July , is expected to announce Halton's appointment today.
  • (4) Even the RNC chair, Reince Priebus, who has been loth to alienate the mercurial Trump, weighed in meekly.
  • (5) The former England captain was widely blamed for the LA Galaxy’s disappointing season last term, as Bruce Arena’s side put up a meek defence of MLS Cup.
  • (6) If that was partially to intimidate the visitors, O’Neill’s teamsheet, at least, did not betray any meekness: the Irish manager’s decision to include Wes Hoolahan, whose only previous away start in the campaign had been in the inevitable win over Gibraltar, suggested a degree of boldness.
  • (7) It rarely is different.” I meekly say: “You may be right.
  • (8) Instead, vilify and humiliate anybody who challenges – however meekly – the status quo.
  • (9) Meek also revealed YouView was in "very early stage discussions" with major US studios over potentially providing content or full channels on the service.
  • (10) The straight lines of the Roman remains stood in contrast to meek and ugly village houses.
  • (11) Astrologers posit that babies born under each sign are bestowed with unique personality traits – rat-year babies are cautious, dragon babies resilient, dog babies intelligent, and sheep babies are considered meek.
  • (12) But there is little evidence that they are about to fade away meekly.
  • (13) Fouad asked with meek and apologetic smile if he could have our phones.
  • (14) However, the measure to help combined heat and power generation – an efficient way of cutting carbon emissions by reusing the heat from electricity generation – was not as green as it appeared, warned Graham Meeks, director of the Combined Heat and Power Association.
  • (15) "They want me to come back later," she says meekly.
  • (16) Russia champions the sovereignty of nations and then acts as if a neighbour’s borders do not exist.” She then meekly voted with everyone else in favour of the resolution.
  • (17) Kris Meeke of Northern Ireland had looked set for a challenge but skidded into a ditch on Sunday morning, which damaged the tyres on his Citroën DS3 and he slipped to sixth place.
  • (18) James Meek Guardian journalist and writer James Meek at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008 Photograph: Murdo Macleod JM Coetzee calls Tolstoy the exemplary master of authority, by which he means, I think, that he makes us trust what he tells us.
  • (19) He's the head of a crew of rappers including Ross, Meek Mill and Wale, named Maybach Music Group after Mercedes's notoriously expensive car, the man who likes to be called "the Boss" – pronounced "Bawse" – and the rapper who since his 2006 breakthrough hit Hustlin' has used his signature bellicose baritone to tell stories of drug dealing and murder that make Tony Montana sound like Alfie Moon.
  • (20) In this world, wives are meek-but-cheerful servants (Asda mum doesn't even get a proper chair to sit on during Christmas lunch; she has to perch at the side like a terrier begging for scraps) while their husbands are lazy, oblivious arseholes.