What's the difference between kine and kite?

Kine


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Cow
  • (n. pl.) Cows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The horrendous due process violations in the Paghman trial have only worsened the injustices of this terrible crime,” said Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch.
  • (2) Now you've taught a new generation about killing | Laksmi Pamuntjak Read more “The Jokowi government’s approach to human rights has been more rhetoric than reality, while serious rights abuses go unpunished,” said Phelim Kine, deputy director in HRW’s Asia division.
  • (3) Phelim Kine, a researcher for the New-York-based group Human Rights Watch, said the raid on Hu's house was linked to government anxiety over potential unrest before a coming leadership transition.
  • (4) Using this anti-KLP antibody preparation it was possible to show that at least one kine of keratin-like protein characteristic of the adult epidermis first appears within the larval epidermis during metamorphosis.
  • (5) "Human, electronic and internet surveillance will only tighten this year as the Chinese government seeks to identify, target and neutralise any potential public challenges to its grip on power," Kine said in an email.
  • (6) "They don't haul in everyone," said Phelim Kine, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
  • (7) Phelim Kine, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, said: "In terms of high-profile dissidents and activists, we haven't seen a case as serious as Gao's.
  • (8) "[The authorities] are becoming increasingly sophisticated in how they handle dissent," said Phelim Kine, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.
  • (9) Kine said Chinese rights activists were likely to face heightened police surveillance, harassment and detention in the runup to the Communist party congress that will inaugurate new leaders in the second half of the year.
  • (10) Phelim Kine, of Human Rights Watch, said: "The lesson of the last 48 hours is that expectations really need to be backed with concrete plans for delivery.
  • (11) "It is extremely ambiguous, but its timing suggests a possibly positive, symbolic shift in the Chinese government's stance on Chen Guangcheng and his future status," said Phelim Kine, of Human Rights Watch.
  • (12) "If these reports are accurate and Gao Zhisheng is alive and well, we are extremely relieved," added Kine, of Human Rights Watch.
  • (13) Phelim Kine, the Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, said the organisation was concerned that cases in Urumqi would echo those that followed unrest in Lhasa and other parts of the Tibetan plateau in 2008, with "flagrant abuses of international standards of due process" in what were little more than "summary trials".
  • (14) The harder, longer term part is ensuring his right under international law to return to China when he sees fit," said Phelim Kine, senior Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Kite


Definition:

  • (n.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily Milvinae, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
  • (n.) Fig. : One who is rapacious.
  • (n.) A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
  • (n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
  • (n.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry.
  • (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill.
  • (n.) The brill.
  • (v. i.) To raise money by "kites;" as, kiting transactions. See Kite, 6.
  • (n.) The belly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
  • (2) The methods consist of arterial ligation in 6 cases, end-to-end anastomosis in 5 cases, prosthesis or autogenous vein grafts in 9 cases, "Flying Kite" technique by muscular embolism in 5 cases, vascular embolism by means of the spring-coil in 14 cases, direct operation combined with vascular embolism in 1 case, and breaking blood stream by the balloon catheter at first, then embolism by the spring-coil through retrograde catheterization and finally removal of false aneurysm in 1 case.
  • (3) Controversy seems to follow autism like the tail on a kite,” says an editorial in the journal by Bryan H King of the University of Washington and Seattle children’s hospital.
  • (4) The Float Beijing project gets people to build simple kites with air-quality testing equipment.
  • (5) To solve the quiz, viewers had to calculate every possible number within the kites - which were different colours - including numbers within other written numbers, and numbers within digital numbers (displayed as if on a calculator).
  • (6) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
  • (7) Golnaz Esfandiari, who has a blog on the Radio Free Europe website, Persian Letters, writes in a recent post : "There were also gatherings for paintball, kite flying, and blowing bubbles.
  • (8) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (9) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
  • (10) Andy Thomas, who for the past 20 years has run Kites & Things, a toy and hobbies store a few hundred metres from the harbourside in the town's high street, said business had been difficult since 2008, when Northern Rock nearly went under.
  • (11) "Viewers then also had to work out the total of the numbers for the different coloured kites.
  • (12) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
  • (13) The most eye-catching of the kites that he flies – fixed-term parliaments, and a curbing of the power of the whips over the scrutiny of legislation – would make a big difference, but are wrapped in rather slippery language, so neither is a bankable pledge.
  • (14) The move comes after months of negotiations that have failed to persuade any major retailer to adopt the foundation's kite-mark standard.
  • (15) Case 1: A 12-year-old male suffered a severe headache followed by a generalized convulsion after he turned his head when he was flying a kite.
  • (16) The report calls for better conservation, especially following successful schemes to reintroduce or bolster populations such as the red kite and large blue butterfly.
  • (17) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (18) Even by the standards of the hardline Taliban, famous for their tight control on everything, from kite flying to music, when they ruled Afghanistan , the uniformed squads are oppressive, said Michael Semple, a fellow at Harvard University, an expert on the Taliban.
  • (19) Direct cutaneous arteries provide blood supply to the kite flap when the only dorsal metacarpal vessel of the first web space is in a deep situation.
  • (20) Critically, this will lead to a system of kite marking practice authority and expertise which has been successfully applied to working with the most at-risk children and families.

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