Ken

Definition: Ken

Ken

Noun

1. Range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken".

2. The range of vision; "out of sight of land".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Ken" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a sword", "to be healthy", "to be handsome".

Date "ken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Ken

Concealment

Behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery.

Knowledge

Verb: know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware; Adjective:- of; ween, weet, trow, have, possess.

Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics.

Crosswords: Ken

Afrikaan (be acquainted with, know), Finnish (who? he who, whoever), Hungarian (lubricate, oil, slush, to grease, to oil, to salve, to slush), Maya (to tell), Papiamen (that, which, who).

I'm sorry about my brother, Ken. I know he's insensitive (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

I used to like to play with my Ken and Barbie dolls (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.)

Ken Clawson told me he wrote the Canuck letter (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

Hey Ken, want to see my impersonation of Gandhi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Mr. Ken Andrews, of Leighton Road, Slough has concealed himself extremely well (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

Hi Ken! (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua)

Sure Ken! (Barbie Girl; performing artist: Aqua)

Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken (1974)

Satsujin ken 2 (1974)

The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972)

Kage o kiru ken (1967)

Kedamono no ken (1965)

Everything I Own (performing artist: Ken Boothe)

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Books

• Collected Works of Ken Wilber : Integral Psychology, Transformations of Consciousness, Selected Essays (reference)

• Ken Griffey Jr (reference)

• Ken Hom: Travels with a Hot Wok (reference)

• Ken Hom's Foolproof Chinese Cooking (reference)

• Ken Uston on Blackjack (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Ken Burns' America - Brooklyn Bridge (reference)

• Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns (reference)

• The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns (reference)

• Daniel Boone: Ken Tuck E (reference)

• Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Fletcher Henderson (reference)

• Baseball: A Film By Ken Burns - Original Soundtrack Recording [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• The Civil War - Traditional American Songs And Instrumental Music Featured In The Film By Ken Burns: Original Soundtrack Recording [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Very Best of Ken Dodd (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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"Typical road conditions" Truck traversing flooded road Triangulation party of Ken Crosby. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lt. Ken Perrin catching a few winks after a hard day installing a tide gauge Boston Whaler off WHITING. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

EC-130-E and SeniorAirman Ken Lockhart.

09/29/00 - WASHINGTON --Lt. Col. Ken, and Majs. Karl and Kevin Rozelsky, meet at the Pentagon to be pinned-on by the Air Force chief of staff. The brothers -- all Air Force Academy graduates -- followed different career paths, but have opted to make the A.

Ken York, DC Johnston County meets with local hog farmer to review animal waste management system. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Arlene Tugl and Ken Scheffey, NRCS, Soil Scientists checking for hydrophobic soils. Credit: USDA.

Ken Scheffey, NRCS, Soil Scientist checks for hydrophobic soils in the Santa Fe NF, NM afterthe Cerro Grande Fire. Credit: USDA.

Near Sheldon, Illinois, grower Joe Zumwalt applies a low-insecticide bait that is targeted against western corn rootworms feeding on and laying eggs in these soybeans. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Ken Hammond..

The petri dishes below show sterilization effects of negative air ionization on a chamber aerosolized with Salmonella enteritidis. The left sample is untreated; the right, treated. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Ken Hammond..

Public Lands Day goldpanning demonstration by Ken Gardner. Credit: Alisa Spafford.

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Health

Ken Judy remembers vividly the first signs that something was wrong. (references)

Civil Liberties

Trinidad and Tobago

In 1997 when Prime Minister Panday labeled Ken Gordon, head of a major media corporation, a "pseudo-racist" for editorials about the rise of the ruling UNC party, Gordon filed suit for libel. (references)

Afghanistan

After meeting in Pakistan with Canadian diplomats and Pakistani authorities, the Taliban on December 1 released Ken Hechtman, a Canadian journalist, who had been held captive in Spin Boldak by approximately 11 armed Taliban members. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

In late 1994 the government set up the Ogoni Civil Disturbances Special Tribunal to try prominent author and Ogoni activist Ken Saro-lh'iwa and others for their alleged roles in the killings of four prominent Ogoni politicians in May 1994. Saro-lh'iwa and 14 others pleaded not guilty to charges that they procured and counseled others to murder the politicians. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

On February 4, while addressing a rally in Kampala, Ken Lukyamuzi, opposition M.P. for Lubaga North, Kampala, urged the public to injure or kill any foreigners who attempted to vote in the March presidential elections. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "ken": beyond one's ken ♦ Ken Caryl ♦ Ken Elton Kesey ♦ Ken Kesey ♦ Ken Thompson ♦ out of ken ♦ Sedge ken ♦ that's beyond my ken. Additional references.

Ending with "ken": Kanagawa-ken.

Albanian

Di (be acquainted with, be privy to, can, cognize, come to know, consider, have, know, wot). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لا أعرفها. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Обсег На Зрение, Познание, Зная, �'иждам. (various references)

Chinese 

眼界 (scope). (various references)

Czech

Dosah Poznání. (various references)

Farsi 

پارچه پشمی سبزرنگ . (various references)

French

cela dépasse mes connaissances (that's beyond my ken). (various references)

Greek 

Ενοχλώ, �"νώση, Θέα. (various references)

Hungarian

Megismer (cognize, recognize, to come to know), Látótávolság (eyeshot, range of vision, sight reach, visual range), látókör (range of vision, scope), látóhatár (horizon), ismeretkör. (various references)

Indonesian

mengetahui (detect, know), mengenal (conversant, know, recognize). (various references)

Italian

Conoscenza (acquaintance, acquaintanceship, aquaintance, consciousness, contact, knowledge, privity), Comprensione (apprehension, comprehension, grasp, realisation, realization, sympathy, understanding, uptake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"数 (number of rooms, one ken in length or breadth), 一�" (one ken, one room, six feet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっけ�" (a glimpse, a house, a look, a matter, an item, first meeting, glance, one dog, one ken, six feet), け�"すう (number, number of houses, one ken in length or breadth). (various references)

Manx

harrish yn oayllys ain (beyond our ken). (various references)

Pig Latin

enkay.(various references)

Portuguese

reconhecer (accredit, acknowledge, admit, ascertain, avouch, avow, cognize, concede, confess, establish, feel, hallow, honor, honour, identify, know, notice, own, placatory, place, profess, recognize, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, take note, to recognize), conhecer (cognize, experience, have at one's fingertips, know, know how, to know, understand), alcance da vista. (various references)

Romanian

Sferã De Cunoştinţe, Orizont (everywhere else, level, purview, sight, sky, skyline), Cunoaşte (acquaint oneself with, be acquainted with, know, know how, meet, possess, recognize, see, taste). (various references)

Russian 

Кругозор, круг познаний, Знать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

znati (know, wot), znanje (attainment, know how, knowledge, lore, prudence), vidokrug (eyeshot, horizon, perspective, reach, sight, view). (various references)

Spanish

Conocido (acquaint, acquaintance, arrant, excerpt, famed, familiar, famous, known, learned, met, noted, recognized, well-known), Conocer (become acquainted, getting toknow, know, learn, meet, recognize, see, taste, tell). (various references)

Swedish

Synhåll (view, vision), Känna Igen (identify, know, recognize, spot, tell). (various references)

Thai

รู้. (various references)

Turkish

Tanımak (acknowledge, affiliate, be acquainted with, be recognizant of, charter, get to know, identify, know, legitimatize, legitimize, own, recognize, spot), Görüş Alanı (purview, view), Bilmek (be onto, be privy to, be up, be up to, be wise to, know, savvy, understand, wise up, wise up to, wit), Bilgi Alanı (bailiwick, field). (various references)

Ukrainian

Пізнавати, Кругозір, Коло Пізнання, Знати, Бути Знайомим. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tầm mắt (kent), phạm vi hiểu biết (kent). (various references)

cennan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ken": kenaf, kenafs, kench, kenches, kendo, kendos, kenned, kennel, kenneled, kenneling, kennelled, kennelling, kennels, kenning, kennings, keno, kenos, kenosis, kenosises, kenotic, kenotron, kenotrons, kens, kenspeckle, kent, kentledge, kentledges. (additional references)

Words ending with "ken": awaken, awestricken, awoken, bedarken, bespoken, betaken, betoken, blacken, bracken, broken, caretaken, chicken, darken, drunken, flanken, forespoken, foretoken, forsaken, godforsaken, halterbroken, harken, hearken, heartbroken, housebroken, kraken, liken, misspoken, misstricken, mistaken, oaken, outspoken, overtaken, partaken, pinken, plainspoken, preshrunken, quicken, reawaken, reawoken, respoken, restricken, retaken, rewaken, rewoken, schnecken, shaken, shrunken, sicken, silken, slacken, sleeken. (additional references)

Words containing "ken": akene, akenes, alikeness, alikenesses, alkene, alkenes, awakened, awakener, awakeners, awakening, awakens, barkentine, barkentines, bedarkened, bedarkening, bedarkens, betokened, betokening, betokens, blackened, blackener, blackeners, blackening, blackenings, blackens, bookend, bookends, brackens, brokenhearted, brokenly, brokenness, brokennesses, chickened, chickenhearted, chickening, chickenpox, chickenpoxes, chickens, childlikeness, childlikenesses, darkened, darkener, darkeners, darkening, darkens, dickens, dickenses, drunkenly, drunkenness, drunkennesses, flankens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akeen, ceen, cen, Cepn, Cnen, ek, ekm, ekn, iken, kaen, Kaeon, kanes, Kaon, kbn, ke, kean, kec, kedny, keeh, keem, keent, keex, Keh, kei, kek, kel, keln, kem, kena, kend, keng, Keni, Kenn, ker, ketn, keu, Keun, kev, kew, kez, khen, Khenj, kien, kij, kimn, kinn, kiq, kiv, kke, kleen, kn, kne, knean, knef, kneh, knev, knex, koen, kohn, Konh, kre, kreen, kren, krenz, kuen, kuni, kyen, kyn, uen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: en, ne.

+1 letter: kane, keen, keno, kens, kent, kern, kine, knee, knew, kune, neck, neuk, nuke.

+2 letters: akene, ankle, eikon, eking, enoki, ensky, inked, inker, inkle, kanes, keens, kenaf, kench, kendo, kenos, kerne, kerns, kines, knave, knead, kneed, kneel, knees, knell, knelt, knife, koine, krone, liken, minke, naked, necks, neuks, nuked, nukes, oaken, pekan, pekin, reink, skean, skeen, skein, skene, snake, sneak, sneck, taken, token, waken, woken.