ok
Forms
- Plural
- oks
- Comparative
- more ok
- Superlative
- most ok
- present (v1)
- ok
- past (v2)
- oked
- past participle (v3)
- oked
- present participle
- oking
- 3rd person singular
- oks
Definitions
1.Endorsement; approval; acceptance; acquiescence.
- We can start as soon as we get the OK.
2.Karaoke.
1.To approve; to accept; to acquiesce to.
- I don't want to OK this amount of money.
- In the data case, Judge John Bates has OK’d four depositions, while green-lighting other discovery requests from the challengers.
2.To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
- Type a suitable name for your Marker and OK the dialogue box.
- When you OK the crop, the image size will be adjusted to match the front image resolution.
1.All right, acceptable, permitted.
- Is it OK if I spend the night?
- 'Everything O.K. so far as I have found,' was the reassuring answer.
- If someone has been transparent about their journey with GLP-1s, it’s OK to ask specific follow-up questions, she adds.
2.Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
3.Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
- If you leave the kids in the creche for one morning on your week's holiday, and they are OK with that, then it's fine.
4.In good health or a good emotional state.
- He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
- ‘Are we OK? Is this, ?’ She made a gesture to include their two bodies. / ‘This is the OKest I’ve been in years.’
- In France, the French postal service La Poste provides a subscription service in which postal workers visit elderly subscribers to make sure they are okay, do not need anything, and provide brief social interaction.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #708
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
Origin disputed. Wikipedia lists many possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of oll/orl korrect, a comical spelling of all correct, which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.