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KEM

Date "KEM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

"KEM" is a common misspelling or typo for: kea, keg, kemp, kemps, ken, key.


Specialty Definition: KEM

DomainDefinition

Slang

Adj. Source: Thai friend. Definition: Salty. Context: Won nee chun gi kow pad pla kem."I ate salty fish fried rice today.". Social Source: Use among guy teenagers in Bangkok. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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

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Crosswords: KEM

Non-English Usage: "KEM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Turkish (bad, evil, haunted, sinister), Turkmen (defect, flaw), Vietnamese (creamery, ice-cream).

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Modern Usage: KEM

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Za kem zamuzhem pevitsa? (1988)

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

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Commercial Usage: KEM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ruam prawat katika kanlen kila chabap °Echian Kem khrang thi 13 : Bangkok kem, 1998 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: KEM

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Kenya

KEM provides equity and term financing, and particularly supports existing companies who wish to expand rather than start-up operations. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Imported meats, vegetables, and packaged foods are readily available from most stores in the Hero grocery store chain (locations through out Jakarta), at Sogo in the Plaza Indonesia/Grand Hyatt complex, and at Kem Chicks in the Kemang district. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: KEM

"KEM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "KEM" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: KEM

The following table summarizes the usage of "KEM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KemLast name17046,833
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KEM

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

kem

423

kem kemistry lyrics

4

kem kemistry

69

foto kem

4

call edit kem love lyrics radio

41

kem medical

3

kem card

37

kem poker card

3

kem playing card

33

auto kem part

3

call kem love

17

flo kem

3

kem lyrics

17

artist kem

3

kem port russia

16

kem owens

3

kem nazar

11

kem kewangan

3

kem music

10

home kem

3

kem tek.com

10

kem nunn

3

kem plastic playing card

9

arrow kem

3

kem vet

7

j kem

3

kem singer

6

chemistry kem

2

kem lac

5

flea kem spray vet

2

kem tek

5

kem res

2

kem manufacturing

5

artist kem music

2

aqua kem

4

by call kem love

2

0870528181 book cambodian cambodian dictionary english english hippocrene kem sos

4

kem tec

2

call kem love lyrics

4

kem motivasi

2

b kem r singer

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: KEM

Derivations

Words beginning with "KEM": kemp, kemps, kempt. (additional references)

Words containing "KEM": antileukemic, bakemeat, bakemeats, brakeman, brakemen, kakemono, kakemonos, leukemia, leukemias, leukemic, leukemics, leukemogeneses, leukemogenesis, leukemogenic, leukemoid, pikeman, pikemen, sokeman, sokemen, unkempt, yokemate, yokemates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: KEM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-k-m"

-1 letter: em, me.

 Words containing the letters "e-k-m"
 

+1 letter: kame, kemp, make, meek, merk, mike, moke.

 

+2 letters: kames, kelim, kemps, kempt, maker, makes, merks, miked, mikes, minke, mokes, samek, skelm, smeek, smerk, smoke.

 

+3 letters: bemock, comake, demark, embank, embark, embosk, hakeem, kelims, kermes, kermis, kinema, kismet, kummel, mackle, makers, makeup, marked, marker, market, masked, maskeg, masker, medaka, medick, meeker, meekly, meikle, mickey, mickle, mikveh, milked, milker, minkes, mirker, mocked, mocker, monkey, mopoke, mucked, mucker, muckle, murker, muskeg, musket, muskie, remake, remark, samekh, sameks, skelms, skymen, smeeks, smerks, smoked, smoker, smokes, smokey, unmake.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KEM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 45 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    .    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01000101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#69 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0045 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

453947

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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