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ken    Audio Help   [ken] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, kenned or kent, ken·ning.
–noun
1.knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
2.range of sight or vision.
–verb (used with object)
3.Chiefly Scot.
a.to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing).
b.to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
4.Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
5.Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
6.British Dialect Archaic.
a.to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something).
b.to teach, direct, or guide (someone).
–verb (used without object)
7.British Dialect.
a.to have knowledge of something.
b.to understand.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME kennen to make known, see, know, OE cennan to make known, declare; c. ON kenna, G kennen; akin to can1]
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–noun
a male given name, form of Kendall or Kenneth.
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n.  
  1. Perception; understanding: complex issues well beyond our ken.
    1. Range of vision.
    2. View; sight.

v.   kenned or kent (kěnt), ken·ning, kens Scots

v.   tr.
  1. To know (a person or thing).
  2. To recognize.

v.   intr.
To have knowledge or an understanding.


[From Middle English kennen (influenced by Old Norse kenna, to know), from Old English cennan, to declare; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]

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ken  (v.)
"to know," Scot. dial., from O.E. cennan "make known, declare, acknowledge," originally "make to know," causative of cunnan "to become acquainted with, to know" (see can (v.)). The noun meaning "range of sight" (1590) is a nautical abbreviation of kenning.

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ken  (n.)
"house where thieves meet," 1567, vagabonds' slang, probably a shortening of kennel.

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noun
1. range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: cognizance
2. the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight

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ken
/ken/ 1. Ken Thompson
2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.
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/ken/ n.
1. [Unix] Ken Thompson, principal inventor of Unix. In the early days he used to hand-cut distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalized, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet, in particular) that without a last name `Ken' refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). See also demigod, Unix.
2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken.

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Ken Caryl, CO (CDP, FIPS 40377) Location: 39.57590 N, 105.11169 W
Population (1990): 24391 (8612 housing units)
Area: 24.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Can\, v. t. & i.

Note: [The transitive use is obsolete.] [imp. Could.] [OE. cunnen, cannen (1st sing. pres. I can), to know, know how, be able, AS. cunnan, 1st sing. pres. ic cann or can, pl. cunnon, 1st sing. imp. c[=u][eth]e (for cun[eth]e); p. p. c[=u][eth] (for cun[eth]); akin to OS. Kunnan, D. Kunnen, OHG. chunnan, G. k["o]nnen, Icel. kunna, Goth. Kunnan, and E. ken to know. The present tense I can (AS. ic cann) was originally a preterit, meaning I have known or Learned, and hence I know, know how. [root]45. See Ken, Know; cf. Con, Cunning, Uncouth.]

1. To know; to understand. [Obs.]

I can rimes of Rodin Hood. --Piers Plowman.

I can no Latin, quod she. --Piers Plowman.

Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. --Shak.

2. To be able to do; to have power or influence. [Obs.]

The will of Him who all things can. --Milton.

For what, alas, can these my single arms? --Shak.

M[ae]c[ae]nas and Agrippa, who can most with C[ae]sar. --Beau. & Fl.

3. To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.

Syn: Can but, Can not but. It is an error to use the former of these phrases where the sens requires the latter. If we say, "I can but perish if I go," "But" means only, and denotes that this is all or the worst that can happen. When the apostle Peter said. "We can not but speak of the things which we have seen and heard." he referred to a moral constraint or necessety which rested upon him and his associates; and the meaning was, We cannot help speaking, We cannot refrain from speaking. This idea of a moral necessity or constraint is of frequent occurrence, and is also expressed in the phrase, "I can not help it." Thus we say. "I can not but hope," "I can not but believe," "I can not but think," "I can not but remark," etc., in cases in which it would be an error to use the phrase can but.

Yet he could not but acknowledge to himself that there was something calculated to impress awe, . . . in the sudden appearances and vanishings . . . of the masque --De Quincey.

Tom felt that this was a rebuff for him, and could not but understand it as a left-handed hit at his employer. --Dickens.

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Ken

Kan\, v. t. To know; to ken. [Obs.] See Ken.

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Ken\, n. [Perh. from kennel.] A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.]

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Ken\, n. t. [imp. & p. p. Kenned; p. pr. & vb. n. Kenning.] [OE. kennen to teach, make known, know, AS. cennan to make known, proclaim, or rather from the related Icel. kenna to know; akin to D. & G. kennen to know, Goth. kannjan to make known; orig., a causative corresponding to AS. cunnan to know, Goth. kunnan. [root]45. See Can to be able, Know.]

1. To know; to understand; to take cognizance of. [Archaic or Scot.]

2. To recognize; to descry; to discern. [Archaic or Scot.] "We ken them from afar." --Addison

'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait. --Shak.

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