Keen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

   “I’m keen on computers.”

2. sıfat Fierce, intense, vehement.

   “This boy has a keen appetite.”

3. sıfat Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

   “The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the Razors edge, inuisible: […]”

4. sıfat Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.

   “For when we rage, aduiſe is often ſeene By blunting vs to make our wits more keene.”

5. sıfat Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.

   “keen satire or sarcasm”

6. sıfat Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

   “a keen wind”

7. sıfat Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
8. sıfat Marvelous.

   “I just got this peachy keen new dress.”

9. sıfat Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
10. fiil To make cold, to sharpen.

    “This is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink.”

11. isim A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

    “[S]he went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird.”

12. fiil To utter a keen.

    “Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)”

13. fiil To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.

    “Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.”

14. fiil To mourn.

    “I keened my Gran, I keened my babies, but then my words poured out of my grief. I don't have the full heart like that for Owen, sorry as I am for his goin. Without the heavy grief on me I can maybe think of the words easier.”

15. özel isim A surname.