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1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 5 Where Moses speaks of Amraphel K. of Sinaghr, the Paraphrase of Onkelos hath expresly K. of Babel.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) i. ii. 75 Doth not the K. [1600 King] lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers?

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) V. 213 It was resolved by the Court of K.B.

1898 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xi Mr. Caterham, K.C., our senior counsel.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin iv. 62 He was a K.H.B., and they were not sorry to be rid of his presence.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 134 A K.H.B.: a King's Hard Bargain. A worthless or incorrigible fellow. (Old Service term.)

1909 Who's Who p. xi/1 K.O.S.B. King's Own Scottish Borderers.

1914 F. W. Spicer Diary in P. Young Brit. Army (1967) xv. 203 On our right was the 13th Infantry Brigade, with the 2/K.O.S.Bs. joining up with our right Company.

1924 Cricketer Ann. 1923–4 82 The band and pipers of the K.O.S.B.'s.

1930 H. H. C. Buckley Great Event 33 There was a much advertised football match between the K.O.S.B. and the Royal Scots.

1964 ‘T. Carew’ Vanished Army ii. 128 The K.O.Y.L.I. saw strange faces in their depleted ranks—men of the Suffolks, K.O.S.B. and Manchesters.

1826 Sporting Mag. 18 391 They are manufactured from scrap iron (the best K.Q., or King and Queen as it is called).

1851 ‘Nimrod’ Road 11 Axle trees of the best K.Q. iron.

1910 Lett. Lord Kilbracken & Gen. Godley (c1932) 13 Long may you live to wear your honours, and I hope that ‘the coming K’ will not be long deferred.

1966 J. Betjeman High & Low 70 That very near miss for an All Souls' Fellowship, The recent compensation of a ‘K’.

1968 Listener 13 June 770/3 A ‘K’ isn't certain any more, even if you're a civil servant.

1973 Times 24 Aug. 12/8 There might not have been much merit in a political knighthood, but there was no harm in it... The ‘K’, when it came, was a boon to the Member's wife, and a blessing to the Member himself.

1833 Byron's Wks. (1846) 584/2 Any list of K.B.'s or K.H.'s.

1952 ‘W. Cooper’ Struggles of Albert Woods iv. i. 206 They tell me your Principal got a plain K and was hoping for K.B.E.

1968 Listener 12 Dec. 787/3 He was given a KBE for his efforts.

1916 Let. 12 June in Knights of Blessed Sacrament (Catholic Truth Soc.) (1918) 14 I have started the K.B.S. among my men here.

1923 A. O'Connor Knight in Palestine ii. 11 The K.B.S. and another Catholic made ready the altar.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Three Sailors in S. Bevan Sand & Canvas xxv. 341 There's the British fleet a riding at anchor, With Admiral Napier, K.C.B.

1880 E. W. Hamilton Diary 29 Aug. (1972) I. 40 Loch, the Governor of the Isle of Man, is to be a KCB.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 8 Jan. 6/2 Lord Lawrence used to speak of England's aggressive policy in India as the ‘K.C.B.’ mania.

1972 Times 6 May 1/4 Sir James..was appointed KCB in the New Year Honours.

1842 Royal Kalendar sig. a^v K.C.M.G., Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George.

1880 Foreign Office List 172/2 Rose, Sir John,..was made a K.C.M.G., January 15, 1870... Was made a G.C.M.G., October 29, 1878.

1907 W. S. Churchill Let. 6 Nov. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. 695 Delighted Governor who is just made KCMG.

1986 Independent 31 Dec. 4/3 CMG is known by juniors as ‘Call Me God’ and KCMG as ‘Kindly Call Me God’.

1897 Whitaker's Almanack 108 The Royal Victorian Order. Instituted 21st April, 1896... Knights Grand Cross. G.C.V.O...Knights Commanders. K.C.V.O.

1968 Listener 29 Aug. 278/1 His sufferings..were not assuaged by a KCVO.

1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister IV. iv. 52 (heading) The new K.G.

1880 E. W. Hamilton Diary 23 Aug. (1972) I. 37 A Garter is vacant by death of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe..Lord Palmerston is a precedent for a commoner receiving a KG.

1904 Standard 20 Dec. 5/3 Field Marshal Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., has been appointed Master Gunner of St. James's Park.

1972 Whitaker's Almanack 463 The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O.

1899 G. Palgrave F. T. Palgrave 1 Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy Keeper of Her Majesty's Records.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. K.S.G.

1954 R. T. Sanderson Introd. Chem. iv. 43 Larger quantities of heat are measured in kilocalories, which are 1000 calories each. They are sometimes abbreviated as Cal with a capital C; more commonly they are simply kcal.

1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. iii. 29 The energy required to bring about this rotation is seen to be 5 kcal, a relatively trivial amount capable of being supplied by the thermal motion of neighbouring molecules.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Mar. 7/1 A movable drum weighing 2½ kg...a line of 23 km. length.

1955 Proc. IRE 43 880/3 A happy solution would be more widespread use of the term ‘hertz’, meaning cycle-per-second. Thus the units of frequency would be hertz (or hz), khz, and Mhz.

1974 Electronics 26 Dec. 48 E A portable a-m signal generator..covers 85 kHz to 100 MHz.

1905 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 7) II. iii. 173 An 8-pole, 60 KVA three-phase generator.

1930 Engineering 14 Mar. 355/1 Supplies to the villages will be..through pole transformers with capacities of 50, 20 and 10 kv.-a.

1931 P. Lewis Romance of Water-power 211 The single-phase generators are designed for a continuous output of 6,250 kva. at 225 r.p.m.

1931 P. Lewis Romance of Water-power 216 3-phase generators of 6,000 kva., at 167 r.p.m. capacity.

1959 B.S.I. News June 9/1 The standard applies to power transformers, reactors and earthing transformers having windings insulated with four different classes of insulating material, with single-phase ratings of 1kVA and above or polyphase ratings of 2kVA or above.

1905 A. H. Bate Princ. Electr. Power iii. 34 Electrical power can thus be expressed in either of three units, namely:—The watt, equal to 1 volt multiplied by 1 ampere. The kilowatt (K.W.), equal to 1000 watts. And the electrical horse-power.

1921 World's Work Dec. 90/1 The power developed is rated at 88,000 k.w. generated at 7,000 volts.

1930 Engineering 23 May 667/1 The maximum load in the area during 1928–29 was 26,059 kw., [etc.].

1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 93/2 Central power stations for public electricity supply may range in capacity from the comparatively small size of 40,000 kW to the very large capacity of 500,000 kW or more.

1930 Engineering 28 Feb. 299/2 The best yearly record has been reduced to as low as 12,500 B.Th.U. per kw.-h. sent out.

1963 Times 3 June 12/1 The Minister expressed his belief that in 1968–70 30,000m. kWh of a total electricity production of 260,000m. kWh will be produced by France's atomic plants.

1911 Physical Rev. 33 226 The value of the ice point..was taken as 273·2°K.

1937 M. W. Zemansky Heat & Thermodynamics xiii. 232 The isothermal compressibility of copper is plotted against the Kelvin temperature in Fig. 72. Above about 100°K the rise..is approximately linear.

1959 Sci. News 51 11 The lowest temperature that can conveniently be obtained by evaporating helium under reduced pressure is about 1°K.

1970 Nature 10 Oct. 144/2 The coolest spectrum recorded over the Antarctic plateau indicates a surface temperature of 190 K (− 83°C).

1972 Amateur Photographer 12 Jan. 38 Household Bulbs...150 watts is usually the maximum, with a colour temperature of around 2,700 to 2,900°K.

1888 A. Aveling Mech. & Exper. Sci.: Mech. xiii. 137 k.e. of the two masses after collision = mv²/2.

1905 W. D. Eggar Mechanics Addendum 6 K.E. 36, 0, 100 foot-pounds.

1909 C. S. Jackson & W. M. Roberts First Dynamics 88 The gain of K.E. equals arithmetically the work done by the forces.

1965 G. J. Van Wylen & R. E. Sonntag Fund. Classical Thermodynamics v. 84 E = Internal energy + Kinetic energy + Potential energy or E = U + KE + PE.

1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Oct. 122/2 The KGB was once again checking on every foreigner.

1966 J. Porter Sour Cream v. 58 The K.G.B. is willing to shell out a small fortune in roubles for me, dead or alive.

1972 K. Benton Spy in Chancery i. 8 The Russian who's made the approach..isn't the type of KGB operative one would expect to make a run for it.

a1912 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. (1913) 108/2 K.I.H., Kaiser-i-Hind (Emperor of India).

1942 E. Partridge Dict. Abbrev. K.i.H. or K.I.H., the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal; for useful service in India.

1973 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 36/7 Alice Headwards-Hunter, K.I.H., F.R.C.S.E., D.C.H., formerly of Calcutta.

1872 in W. L. Fleming Documentary Hist. Reconstruction (1907) II. 132 We advanced upon the supposed K.K.K.'s.

1877 J. M. Beard K.K.K. Sketches 35 The horses of the raid were..furnished with all those cap-a-pie appointments of K.K.K. regalia.

1952 N.Y. Times 1 Aug. 16/2 For conspiracy to flog a Negro woman, the so-called ‘Imperial Wizard’ of the local KKK has been given..four years.

1970 G. Jackson Let. Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 48 I've already mentioned that most of them are K.K.K. types.

1961 ‘G. Black’ Suddenly, at Singapore ix. 129 From there we could have been going to K.L. or anywhere in Malaya.

1973 Observer 7 Oct. 36/6 Here is the capital, Kuala Lumpur, which the old Malay hands called KL and now everybody does.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 780/2 The H and K lines of calcium are observed at the highest elevations reached by solar prominences.

1921 Discovery Sept. 227/2 Tin atoms can be made to suit a certain series of ‘lines’ known as the K series.

1921 Discovery Sept. 228/1 The K lines of tungsten.

1933 Meccano Mag. Mar. 193/1 A pilot flying on the K.L.M. route to Batavia.

1968 Listener 28 Nov. 704/3 KLM suggest you come to Amsterdam just to see the airport.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 May 270/4 Two months later Chiang struck again by excluding Communists from any higher posts in the K.M.T.

1969 J. M. Gullick Malaysia ii. 85 At one time the Chinese middle class gave its support to the Kuomintang, an effective if externally orientated nationalist movement, but the KMT was ground between .. British restrictions .. and .. communist penetration of the Chinese working class.

1972 ‘M. Hebden’ Killer for Chairman i. ix. 115 I last saw you in Canton... There was one of the K.M.T. generals still hiding there.

1922 T. Burke London Spy 209 As a youth the ring attracted him... A few k.o.'s put an end to that.

1923 H. Cox Dogs & I xxii. 209 The Field Spaniel has received the ‘K.O.’ and taken the count!

1927 Observer 25 Dec. 12/6 His record..includes a k.o. victory over Paul Berlenbach.

1927 Observer 25 Dec. 12/6 Knut Hansen, who k.o. Phil Scott in the first round.

1928 Daily Express 25 June 17/7 Young Stanley..was then k.o. by a right swing to the jaw.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids viii. 142 Coker an' another chap was giving them the k.o. as they tripped.

1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 1/2 Morodi said he was not upset by the defeat—the first k.o. he has suffered in 70 fights.

1917 D. C. Falls Army & Navy Information 84 K.P., Kitchen Police. A mild form of punishment.

1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers i. 10 The men..filed by the great tin buckets at the door, out of which meat and potatoes were splashed into each plate by a sweating K.P. in blue denims.

1929 F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) 33 Before first call, six or more unfortunates crept out of bed and went on kitchen police... ‘K.P.’ is for good reason the most hated detail in the army.

1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 31 A cook or K.P. stands by to see that the dishes are decently scraped before they go into the pail.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xviii. 162 After all the big personnel experts got together to figure out a job that was right for a city girl like me, I was cast for the part of Cinderella of Cottage No. 6. This was nothing but a fairy-tale name for permanent KP.

1973 Publishers Weekly 25 June 70/2 For an uncertain spell he struggles through the miserable childhood of ‘Norma Jean’ in a welter of secondhand conjectures—Mailer doing biographical KP.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 280/2 The violent agitation conducted by the central committee of the K.P.D. in Berlin.

1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains vi. 98 I am not a member of the Communist Party..I merely sympathize with the attitude of the K.P.D. to certain non-political problems.

1964 New Statesman 28 Feb. 332/1 Relations with Germany—and with the German Communist Party, the KPD—stood at the centre of the picture.

1966 G. B. Mair Kisses from Satan ix. 106 They were doing over a hundred k.p.h. on a snaky road.

1972 W. Garner Ditto, Brother Rat! xxiii. 172 The speedo needle crept past the 150 kph mark.

1944 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 283 We get American ‘K’ rations, with a few extras.

1967 ‘T. Carew’ Korea ii. 19 A K ration consisted of a tin of compressed meat hash, coffee, powdered milk, a fruit bar, cigarettes, chewing gum, and toilet paper.

1959 H. P. Luhn in IBM Corporation ASDD Rep. RC-127 (title) Keyword-in-context index for technical literature (KWIC index).

1967 N. S. M. Cox & M. W. Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer vi. 154 It has been decided not to produce a KWIC index at this stage.

1969 Computers & Humanities 3 166 An obvious prerequisite for this kind of dictionary construction is large key-word-in-context (KWIC) lists drawing on large samples of the language.