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1. Ken  To know; to understand; to take cognizance of.
2. Ken  To recognize; to descry; to discern.
3. Ken  To look around.
4. Ken  Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
5. Ken  A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves.
6. ken   ken /ken/ 1. Ken Thompson 2. A flaming user. This was originated by the Software Support group at Symbolics because the two greatest flamers in the user community were both named Ken. [Jargon File] Ken Thompson The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address in third-person reference; it is widely understood on Usenet in particular that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie and he is often known as dmr. Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey then 18 months old went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR or was it "Space Travel"?. See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
7. ken  the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
8. Ken Elton Kesey  United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital 1935-2001
9. Ken Kesey  United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital 1935-2001
10. Ken Russell  English film director born in 1927