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| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Kind of a. "He jumped into a kind of a chaise, and hurried off to the station." A kind of chaise would be better. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Crosswords: KIND OF A |
| English words defined with "KIND OF A": Class of a curve ♦ Pea berry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KIND OF A": Article redundant ♦ Deed, Duck Hook ♦ HORSE GODMOTHER ♦ screened coal, Sweet Taste ♦ THIRD. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Nothing in it. The kind of a face I could fall into (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden) Do you know what kind of a bomb it was (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman.) Are you some kind of a sadist (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;) What kind of a Mickey Mouse outfit would name their team The Ducks (Space Jam; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick) I understand you're pretty funny as a dee-jay and, well, comedy is kind of a hobby of mine (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) | |
Lyrics | It's kind of a special feeling (Cool Change; performing artist: Little River Band) I had to put up some kind of a fight (HONKY TONK WOMAN; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Some Kind of a Nut (1969) One Kind of a Friend (1915) | |
Song Titles | Kind of A Drag (performing artist: The Buckinghams) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | What kind of a prescription is this? : You don't need a pill for every ill- let the Doctor decide. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Kind of a lovely district this, isn't it? : what do you do when you want ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | That's it, young fellah, exactly! -- a kind of a thortful, sad look, as if money ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Milton Friedman | The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. |
O.w. Holmes | The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | what kind of a man was this |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Only 2% working in IT have a Ph.D. while 26% claim to have some kind of a diploma. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | Well, I defended Michael Jackson several times. I think this country with Michael Jackson uses him as kind of a scapegoat because we are a youth-crazy country. |
Dennis Miller | Gandhi was kind of a bastard in his teens. |
James Dobson | Obviously I think a lot of people were absolutely blind to the racism issue at that time. I was too young to be part of it. But looking back on what I read and what I know, Martin Luther King has to be seen as a kind of a hero. |
Mark Geragos | I would love to get into that, but we'll wait. We go back on Thursday, and maybe I'll come on Thursday and I'll give you kind of a blow-by-blow at that time. |
Sally Jessy Raphael | Kind of a base, bottom line, I would guess. And that's not all television, that's the need to be tabloid television, I think. It's either that or a plug your new book and let's have a lot of giggles, or plug your movie or whatever. |
Samantha Geimer | We were just talking. It is kind of a long drive. I was feeling a little more at ease and he seemed a little more pleasant than the first time. So it didn't take long for me to get comfortable with him. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The kind of a world we want depends on a broad policy of creating mutual incentives for restraint and for cooperation. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
theres a kind of a hush | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "KIND OF A"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | joku pöhkö (some kind of a nut). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | indkay ofay aay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-i-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: daikon. | |
-2 letters: danio. | |
-3 letters: akin, dank, dink, dona, fado, fain, fano, fido, find, fink, fino, foin, fond, ikon, info, kadi, kaif, kain, kaon, kina, kind, kino, koan, naif, naoi, nodi, oink. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, ain, and, ani, dak, din, don, fad, fan, fid, fin, fon, ink, ion, kaf, kid, kif, kin, koa, koi, nod. | |
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