in kind
以實物;以同樣的方式
Kind, n.
1. Nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.]
He knew by kind and by no other lore. --Chaucer.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature,
Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. --Dryden.
2. Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. “Come of so low a kind.”
Every kind of beasts, and of birds. --James iii.7.
She follows the law of her kind. --Wordsworth.
Here to sow the seed of bread,
That man and all the kinds be fed. --Emerson.
3. Sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play,
And snows his power in variable kinds ! --Spenser.
There is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. --I Cor. xv. 39.
Diogenes was asked in a kind of scorn: What was the matter that philosophers haunted rich men, and not rich men philosophers? --Bacon.
A kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or slightingly. In kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money.
Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: -- Sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set.
in kind
adv : with something of the same kind; "she pays him back in kind"
[syn: in a similar way]