ok
see also: OK, Ok
Adjective
OK
Pronunciation Noun
Ok
Proper noun
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see also: OK, Ok
Adjective
- (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK#English|OK
OK
Pronunciation Noun
ok (plural oks)
- Endorsement; approval.
- We can start as soon as we get the OK.
- (endorsement or approval) approval, endorsement, green light, thumbs up, go-ahead
- French: OK, accord, feu vert, bénédiction (colloquial)
- German: in Ordnung, gut, okay, OK, alles klar
- Italian: ok
- Portuguese: ok, certo, tá, tá bom, tá bem, beleza
- Russian: одобре́ние
- Spanish: aprobación, visto bueno, okey
ok (oks, present participle oking; past and past participle oked)
- To approve.
- I don't want to OK this amount of money.
- (computing) To confirm by activating a button marked OK.
ok
- All right, permitted.
- Do you think it's OK to stay here for the night?
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- The soup was OK, but the dessert was excellent.
- 1869 Little Women, Part Second, by Louisa May Alcott
- One of us must marry well. Meg didn't, Jo won't, Beth can't yet, so I shall, and make everything okay all round.
- In good health or a good emotional state.
- He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
- (all right, permissible) allowed, all right, permissible
- (satisfactory) adequate, all right, not bad, satisfactory
- (in good health or a good emotional state) fine, well
- (all right, permissible) forbidden
- (satisfactory) bad, inadequate, poor, unsatisfactory
- (in good health or a good emotional state) ill, poorly, sick, under the weather, unwell
- French: permis, bien, (be OK) pouvoir (verb), (be OK) avoir le droit de (verb)
- German: Okay, OK, Gut, in Ordnung
- Portuguese: OK
- Russian: ла́дно
- Spanish: bien
- French: acceptable, passable, correct, assez bon, plutôt bon, (be OK) pouvoir aller (verb), (be OK) pouvoir passer (verb), pas mal
- German: alles in Ordnung
- Portuguese: bom
- Russian: норма́льно
- Spanish: aceptable, bueno, bien
- French: (be OK) aller bien/mieux (verb), (be OK) ça va
- German: in Ordnung (sein), alles in Ordnung (sein), OK,
- Portuguese: bem
- Russian: быть в поря́дке
- Spanish: bien
ok
- Satisfactorily, sufficiently well.
- The team did OK in the playoffs.
- (satisfactorily) adequately, satisfactorily
- (satisfactorily) badly, inadequately, poorly, unsatisfactorily
- French: correctement, convenablement, pas mal, assez bien
- Portuguese: bem
- Russian: оке́й
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Synonyms: okey-dokey, okeh, okey, k, 'kay, m'kay, A-OK, all right
- I promise to give it back. – OK.
- Let's meet again this afternoon. – OK.
- Shut up! – OK, OK.
- OK! I get it! Stop nagging me!
- 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171030003034/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-8-are-you-busy/3253185.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)
- Come by this afternoon. — Okay.
- Come by this afternoon. — Okay.
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Synonyms: now, now then
- OK, I'm thinking of a number…
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
- You always do this to me! When we were at your mother’s, you said that… – OK, OK, …
- French: OK, d'accord, entendu
- German: okay, gut
- Italian: OK, va bene, d'accordo, intesi
- Portuguese: OK, tudo bem, certo
- Russian: ла́дно
- Spanish: vale, de acuerdo, okey
- United States postal abbreviation for Oklahoma, a state of the United States of America.
Ok
Proper noun
- Alternative form of Ok. Abbreviation of Oklahoma#English|Oklahoma.
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