name
Meaning 1
A river in Russia, a tributary of the Ob.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
ket
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kɛt/
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name
Meaning 2
The Yeniseian language of the Ket people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Kettish
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
The station code of Kennedy Town in Hong Kong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
Meaning 4
A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate transpose of a bra (a row vector); a ket vector. Symbolised by |...〉.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: quantum mechanics
Topics: linear-algebra, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- A particular ket, say #124;A#92;rangle, might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, #92;langleA#124;, would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.
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noun
Meaning 5
Carrion; any filth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Sweetmeats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northumbria, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A sweet, treat or candy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Wearside, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
ketamine
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
matted wool
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A member of a people of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Central Siberia, Russia.
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noun
Meaning 11
A native or inhabitant of Brussels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Brusseler
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ket кеʼт (keˀt, “human being”), via Russian.
From bra-ket notation invented by Paul Dirac, from bracket.
Probably of Old Norse origin like kjǫt (“meat”), from Proto-Germanic *ketwą. Compare Icelandic kjöt (“flesh”); akin to Swedish kött, Danish kød, and Norwegian kjøtt. The use of the term ket for "candy" or "sweets" probably derived from its use to describe sweet meats or as a deterrent to children.
Clipping of ketamine.
Borrowed from Dutch Ket, derived from Dutch ket, Middle Dutch *kitte, Proto-West Germanic *kitte.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Ket: Остык (Òstɨk) — people
- Ket: Остыганам (Òstɨkanam) — people
- Polish: Ket — people
- Polish: Ketka — people
- Serbo-Croatian: Ке̏т — people
- Serbo-Croatian: Кѐтица — people
- Serbo-Croatian: Kȅt — people
- Serbo-Croatian: Kètica — people
- Breton: keteg — language
- Chinese: 愒語 /愒语 — language
- Chinese: 愒语 (Kài yǔ) — language
- Chuvash: кет чӗлхи (ket čĕlh̬i) — language
- Czech: ketština — language
- Dutch: Ket — language
- Esperanto: Keta lingvo — language
- Estonian: keti keel — language
- Finnish: ketti — language
- Finnish: ketin kieli — language
- French: kete — language
- German: Ketisch — language
- Italian: ket — language
- Japanese: ケット語 (Ketto-go) — language
- Ket: Остыганбесь (Òstɨkanbesj) — language
- Ket: Остыганна ӄаʼ (Òstɨkanna qaˀ) — language
- Korean: 케트어 (Keteu-eo) — language
- Norwegian: ketisk — language
- Polish: język ketyjski — language
- Polish: język kecki — language
- Portuguese: ostiaco — language
- Portuguese: ostíaco — language
- Russian: ке́тский язы́к (kétskij jazýk) — language
- Serbo-Croatian: ке̏тскӣ — language
- Serbo-Croatian: kȅtskī — language
- Spanish: ket — language
- Swedish: ketiska — language
- Tamil: கெட் மொழி (keṭ moḻi) — language
- Bulgarian: кет (ket) — Translations
- Chinese Mandarin: 右矢 (yòushǐ) — Translations
- Finnish: ket — Translations
- German: Ket — Translations
- Italian: ket — Translations
- Japanese: ケット (ketto) — Translations
- Polish: ket — Translations