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   kaput
         adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: {done
                  for(p)}, {kaput(p)}, {gone(a)}]

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kbit
n
  1. a unit of information equal to 1000 bits [syn: kilobit, kbit, kb]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
keep out
v
  1. prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country"
    Synonym(s): exclude, keep out, shut out, shut
    Antonym(s): admit, include, let in
  2. remain outside
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kept
adj
  1. (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept"
    Synonym(s): unbroken, kept
    Antonym(s): broken, unkept
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
keypad
n
  1. a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard
    Synonym(s): computer keyboard, keypad
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kibit
n
  1. a unit of information equal to 1024 bits [syn: kibibit, kibit]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Keeve \Keeve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Keeved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Keeving}.]
      1. To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation.
  
      2. To heave; to tilt, as a cart. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Keep \Keep\ (k[emac]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Kept}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Keeping}.] [OE. k[?]pen, AS. c[?]pan to keep, regard,
      desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. copenere lover, OE.
      copnien to desire.]
      1. To care; to desire. [Obs.]
  
                     I kepe not of armes for to yelp [boast]. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let
            go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
            lose; to retain; to detain.
  
                     If we lose the field, We can not keep the town.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     That I may know what keeps me here with you.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are
                     considering, that would instruct us.   --Locke.
  
      3. To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to
            maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or
            tenor.
  
                     His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. --Milton.
  
                     Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
      Note: In this sense it is often used with prepositions and
               adverbs, as to keep away, to keep down, to keep from,
               to keep in, out, or off, etc. [bd]To keep off
               impertinence and solicitation from his superior.[b8]
               --Addison.
  
      4. To have in custody; to have in some place for
            preservation; to take charge of.
  
                     The crown of Stephanus, first king of Hungary, was
                     always kept in the castle of Vicegrade. --Knolles.
  
      5. To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard.
  
                     Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee. --Gen.
                                                                              xxviii. 15.
  
      6. To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to
            communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret.
  
                     Great are thy virtues . . . though kept from man.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      7. To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend.
  
                     And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the
                     garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. --Gen.
                                                                              ii. 15.
  
                     In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                                              --Carew.
  
      8. To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to
            keep books, a journal, etc.; also, to enter (as accounts,
            records, etc. ) in a book.
  
      9. To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the
            like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store.
  
                     Like a pedant that keeps a school.      --Shak.
  
                     Every one of them kept house by himself. --Hayward.
  
      10. To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to
            keep boarders.
  
      11. To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an
            assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc.
  
                     I keep but three men and a boy.         --Shak.
  
      12. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  
      13. To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to
            intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to
            keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession.
  
                     Both day and night did we keep company. --Shak.
  
                     Within this portal as I kept my watch. --Smollett.
  
      14. To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from
            or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to
            neglect; to be faithful to.
  
                     I have kept the faith.                     --2 Tim. iv.
                                                                              7.
  
                     Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great
                     command.                                          --Milton.
  
      15. To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as,
            to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.; hence, to haunt; to
            frequent. --Shak.
  
                     'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and
                     satyrs do it keep.                           --J. Fletcher.
  
      16. To observe duty, as a festival, etc.; to celebrate; to
            solemnize; as, to keep a feast.
  
                     I went with them to the house of God . . . with a
                     multitude that kept holyday.            --Ps. xlii. 4.
  
      {To keep at arm's length}. See under {Arm}, n.
  
      {To keep back}.
            (a) To reserve; to withhold. [bd]I will keep nothing back
                  from you.[b8] --Jer. xlii. 4.
            (b) To restrain; to hold back. [bd]Keep back thy servant
                  also from presumptuous sins.[b8] --Ps. xix. 13.
  
      {To keep company with}.
            (a) To frequent the society of; to associate with; as,
                  let youth keep company with the wise and good.
            (b) To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with
                  one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept
                  attentions from, with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]
                 
  
      {To keep counsel}. See under {Counsel}, n.
  
      {To keep down}.
            (a) To hold in subjection; to restrain; to hinder.
            (b) (Fine Arts) To subdue in tint or tone, as a portion
                  of a picture, so that the spectator's attention may
                  not be diverted from the more important parts of the
                  work.
  
      {To keep good} ([or] {bad}) {hours}, to be customarily early
            (or late) in returning home or in retiring to rest. -- {To
      keep house}.
            (a) To occupy a separate house or establishment, as with
                  one's family, as distinguished from boarding; to
                  manage domestic affairs.
            (b) (Eng. Bankrupt Law) To seclude one's self in one's
                  house in order to evade the demands of creditors. --
      {To keep one's hand in}, to keep in practice. -- {To keep
      open house}, to be hospitable. -- {To keep the peace} (Law),
            to avoid or to prevent a breach of the peace. -- {To keep
      school}, to govern, manage and instruct or teach a school, as
            a preceptor. -- {To keep a stiff upper lip}, to keep up
            one's courage. [Slang] -- {To keep term}.
            (a) (Eng. Universities) To reside during a term.
            (b) (Inns of Court) To eat a sufficient number of dinners
                  in hall to make the term count for the purpose of
                  being called to the bar. [Eng.] --Mozley & W.
  
      {To keep touch}. See under {Touch}, n.
  
      {To keep under}, to hold in subjection; hence, to oppress.
  
      {To keep up}.
            (a) To maintain; to prevent from falling or diminution;
                  as, to keep up the price of goods; to keep up one's
                  credit.
            (b) To maintain; to continue; to prevent from ceasing.
                  [bd]In joy, that which keeps up the action is the
                  desire to continue it.[b8] --Locke.
  
      Syn: To retain; detain; reserve; preserve; hold; restrain;
               maintain; sustain; support; withhold. -- To {Keep}.
  
      Usage: {Retain}, {Preserve}. Keep is the generic term, and is
                  often used where retain or preserve would too much
                  restrict the meaning; as, to keep silence, etc. Retain
                  denotes that we keep or hold things, as against
                  influences which might deprive us of them, or reasons
                  which might lead us to give them up; as, to retain
                  vivacity in old age; to retain counsel in a lawsuit;
                  to retain one's servant after a reverse of fortune.
                  Preserve denotes that we keep a thing against agencies
                  which might lead to its being destroyed or broken in
                  upon; as, to preserve one's health; to preserve
                  appearances.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kept \Kept\, imp. & p. p.
      of {Keep}.
  
      {Kept mistress}, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as
            his paramour.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Key \Key\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Keved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Keying}.]
      To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or
      wedges. --Francis.
  
      {To key up}.
      (a) (Arch.) To raise (the whole ring of an arch) off its
            centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.
      (b) (Mus.) To raise the pitch of.
      (c) Hence, fig., to produce nervous tension in.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Key \Key\ (k[emac]), n. [OE. keye, key, kay, AS. c[ae]g.]
      1. An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot
            or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to
            the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning
            in its place.
  
      2. An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or
            adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc.
  
      3. That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the
            means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a
            pianoforte, or of a typewriter.
  
      4. A position or condition which affords entrance, control,
            pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the
            key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence,
            that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve
            something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle;
            the key to a problem.
  
                     Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true
                     key of books.                                    --Locke.
  
                     Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. --Tennyson.
  
      5. That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make
            fast, or adjust to position.
  
      6. (Arch.)
            (a) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
            (b) The last board of a floor when laid down.
  
      7. (Masonry)
            (a) A keystone.
            (b) That part of the plastering which is forced through
                  between the laths and holds the rest in place.
  
      8. (Mach.)
            (a) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their
                  relative position; a cotter; a forelock. See Illusts.
                  of {Cotter}, and {Gib}.
            (b) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley,
                  coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative
                  turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more
                  frequently by its resistance to shearing, being
                  usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the
                  crank, pulley, etc.
  
      9. (Bot.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a
            wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; --
            called also {key fruit}.
  
      10. (Mus.)
            (a) A family of tones whose regular members are called
                  diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one
                  (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five,
                  subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or
                  two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are
                  temporary members of a key, under such names as [bd]
                  sharp four,[b8] [bd]flat seven,[b8] etc. Scales and
                  tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a
                  key.
            (b) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its
                  modulations are referred, and with which it generally
                  begins and ends; keynote.
  
                           Both warbling of one song, both in one key.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      11. Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or
            utterance.
  
                     You fall at once into a lower key.   --Cowper.
  
      {Key bed}. Same as {Key seat}.
  
      {Key bolt}, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is
            secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut.
  
      {Key bugle}. See {Kent bugle}.
  
      {Key of a position} [or] {country.} (Mil.) See {Key}, 4.
  
      {Key seat} (Mach.), a bed or groove to receive a key which
            prevents one part from turning on the other.
  
      {Key way}, a channel for a key, in the hole of a piece which
            is keyed to a shaft; an internal key seat; -- called also
            {key seat}.
  
      {Key wrench} (Mach.), an adjustable wrench in which the
            movable jaw is made fast by a key.
  
      {Power of the keys} (Eccl.), the authority claimed by the
            ministry in some Christian churches to administer the
            discipline of the church, and to grant or withhold its
            privileges; -- so called from the declaration of Christ,
            [bd]I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
            heaven.[b8] --Matt. xvi. 19.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kibed \Kibed\, a.
      Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as
      kibed heels. --Beau. & Fl.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Kaibito, AZ (CDP, FIPS 36640)
      Location: 36.58904 N, 111.11032 W
      Population (1990): 641 (186 housing units)
      Area: 41.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 86053
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