different between kex vs ket

English

Alternative forms

• kix

Etymology

From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same root as Latin cic?ta (“hemlock”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?ks/

Noun

kex (plural kexes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
2. (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
3. (rare) A dry husk or covering.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:

     On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c??ks/, /c??xs/

Noun

kex n (genitive singular kex, nominative plural kex)

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kixe, kyx, kysk

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ks/, /kiks/

Noun

kex (plural kexis)

1. Any dried stem of a plant with a hollow interior.
2. (rare) A plant having a hollow stem; a member of the family Umbelliferae.

Descendants

• English: kex, kix
• Scots: kex

References

• “kex(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• käx (dated)

Etymology

From English cakes, plural of cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (whence also kaka), from Proto-Germanic *kak?, from Proto-Indo-European *gog. The reason why the word is lent in the plural is because it is easier to apply the Swedish declension patterns with cakes than with cake. Compare the similar loans räls and muffins. Compare Danish kiks (similarly borrowed from English).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Svealand, Norrland) /k?ks/, (Götaland) /??ks/

Noun

kex n

1. cookie, cracker, (UK) biscuit

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From bra-ket notation invented by Paul Dirac, from bracket.

Noun

ket (plural kets)

1. (physics) A vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state of a quantum mechanical system; the complex conjugate of a bra; a ket vector. Symbolised by |...?.

   A particular ket, say ${\displaystyle |A\rangle }$, might be represented by a particular column vector. Its corresponding bra, ${\displaystyle \langle A|}$, would then be represented by the row vector which is the transpose conjugate of that column vector.

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

ket (countable and uncountable, plural kets)

1. (Northern England) Carrion; any filth.
2. (Northumbria) Sweetmeats.
3. (Wearside) A sweet, treat or candy.

References

• The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 on DICT.org
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [1]

Etymology 3

Abbreviation.

Noun

ket (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) ketamine

Etymology 4

Noun

ket (uncountable)

1. (Scotland) matted wool

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ked/ before a vowel.
• IPA^(key): /ke/ before a consonant.

Adverb

ket

1. not

   N'ouzon ket petra eo. — I don't know what it is.

Usage notes

Together with ne: ne ... ket. This is the same structure as French ne ... pas.

Dutch

Noun

ket m (plural ketten, diminutive ketje n)

1. (Belgium, dialect) a kid
2. (Belgium, dialect) a young guy

Derived terms

• Ketnet

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• (common) kjöt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c???t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

ket n (genitive singular kets, no plural)

1. (regional, dated) meat

Declension

Ilocano

Conjunction

ket

1. and