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Definition: Kinesis |
KinesisNoun1. A movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "kinesis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Locomotor behavior not involving a steering reaction, but in which there may be a turning random in direction. It includes orthokinesis, the rate of movement and klinokinesis, the amount of turning, which are related to the intensity of stimulation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It means certainly a stasis and not a kinesis. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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 |
kinesis | 126 |
kinesis wheels | 35 |
kinesis keyboard | 9 |
kinesis fork | 6 |
kinesis power | 4 |
kinesis rim | 3 |
bike kinesis | 3 |
frame kinesis | 2 |
band kinesis | 2 |
audio kinesis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "kinesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hebrew | ת וע" (fluctuation, locomotion, motion, move, movement, moving, stir, traffic), יעות (mobility, motility, movability). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inesiskay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "kinesis": cytokinesis, diakinesis, hyperkinesis, karyokinesis, photokinesis, psychokinesis, telekinesis. (additional references) | |
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"Kinesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akinesia, Cynewise, Kalessi, kanosis, kansei, Kantelis, kenesis, kinased, kineses, kinesi, kinesia, kinesic, kinesin, Kinnevik, Kinseys, knesis, knosis, konsepsi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-k-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: niseis, seisin, siskin, skeins. | |
-2 letters: issei, kines, nisei, sikes, sines, sinks, skein, skies, skins. | |
-3 letters: inks, kens, kine, kins, kiss, ness, nisi, seis, sike, sine, sink, sins, skin, skis. | |
-4 letters: ens, ess, ink, ins, ken, kin, sei, sen, sin, sis, ski. | |
-5 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-k-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: ickiness, inkiness, kinesics. | |
+2 letters: bekissing, kaiserins, kingsides, kinkiness, milkiness, riskiness, silkiness, skinniest, slinkiest, spikiness, stinkiest, wineskins. | |
+3 letters: diakineses, diakinesis, dyskinesia, friskiness, ickinesses, inkinesses, kindliness, kingfishes, kingliness, kolinskies, quirkiness, sickliness, silkalines, silkolines, skimpiness, skinniness, slinkiness, stickiness, trickiness. | |
+4 letters: airsickness, asterisking, buttinskies, cytokinesis, distelfinks, dyskinesias, finickiness, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kineticists, kingfishers, kinkinesses, milkinesses, ministrokes, misspeaking, misstricken, pinkishness, prickliness, riskinesses, sickishness, silkinesses, singlestick, slickenside, spikinesses, telekinesis, tricksiness, triskelions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 69 6E 65 73 69 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .. -. . ... .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K i n e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0069 006E 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45758071857585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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