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KO   /koʊ/   Listen
noun
k.o., K.O., KO  n.  A knockout; a blow that renders the opponent unconscious; used especially in boxing. (acronym)
Synonyms: knockout.



verb
KO  v. t.  (past & past part. ko'd; pres. part. ko'ing)  To knock out; to deliver a blow that renders (the opponent) unconscious; used especially in boxing. (acronym)
Synonyms: knockout.






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"Ko" Quotes from Famous Books



... On every side the sounds of human life were silenced, and all things were still. Suddenly she heard, under the floor, this noise: Ko-Ko. She sat up, thinking it was a rat, and saw a part of the floor move to one side. A shaven head appeared, and was quickly followed by the whole body. It was a bonze. Mei-chieh was ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli

... CHCl3 4KHO 3KCl 3H2O KO.C6H4.CHO, some para-oxybenaldehyde being formed at the same time. It is volatile (para-oxybenzaldehyde is not) and gives a violet coloration with ferric chloride. For dioxybenzaldehydes and their derivatives ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... grunt the man doubled, sprawled and fell. By some strange atavism, which he never afterward could understand, Allan counted, in the Folk's tongue: "Hathi, ko, zem, baku" and so up ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England

... ground in which is deposited the blood, or the hair, or a piece of the cloth of the victim. All the family then gathers round, and an elderly member commences to beat a small drum, and invokes the thlen, saying, "ko kni ko kpa (oh, maternal uncle, father), come out, here is some food for you; we have done everything we could to satisfy you, and now we have been successful; give us thy blessing, that we may attain health and prosperity." The thlen then crawls out from ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon

... exist chemically combined when a definite number of atoms of each element is present, and that there is no certainty of such proportions existing except in the crystal. I hold before you a crystal of common alum. Its chemical symbol would be Al{2}O{3},3SO{3}KO,SO{3}24H{2}O. If we knew its weight and wished to know its ultimate component parts, we could calculate them more readily than we could acquire that knowledge by any other means. But the elements of this quantity of uncrystallized alum could ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various


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