Kill often refers to:
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Homicide
Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
, one human killing another
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death
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
, to kill a living organism, to cause its death
Other common uses include:
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Kill (body of water)
A kill is a body of water, most commonly a creek, but also a tidal inlet, river, strait, or arm of the sea. The term is derived from the Middle Dutch ''kille'' (''kil'' in modern Dutch), meaning "riverbed" or "water channel".“kil” in The N ...
- describes a body of water, most commonly a creek (i.e.:
Anthony Kill &
Bronx Kill
The Bronx Kill is a narrow strait in New York City delineating the southernmost extent of the Bronx. It separates the Bronx from Randalls Island. It connects the Harlem River to the East River.
History
Originally, the Bronx Kill was a sizeab ...
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Kill (command)
In computing, kill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes.
Implementations Unix and Unix-like
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, kill is a command used to send a signal to a pr ...
, a computing command
*Killed animal, the flesh of which is called
carrion
Carrion () is the decaying flesh of dead animals, including human flesh.
Overview
Carrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, c ...
Kill may also refer to:
Media
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Kill!
is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story ''Torideyama no jushichinichi'' () in '' Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu'' (1964) by Shūgorō Y ...
'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto
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''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006
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''Kill'' (Electric Six album), 2009
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"Kill" (song), a 2008 song by Mell
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The Kills
The Kills are an English-American rock duo formed by American singer Alison "VV" Mosshart and English guitarist Jamie "Hotel" Hince. They are signed to Domino Records. Their first four albums, '' Keep On Your Mean Side'', ''No Wow'', ''Midni ...
- English-American rock band founded in 2001
Places in Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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Kill, County Dublin
Kill ( ga, An Chill) is a civil parish in the barony of Rathdown. It is located in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland. It is named after Kill of the Grange, a townland itself named after a church now in ruins. Other townlands in t ...
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Kill, County Kildare
Kill () is a village and parish in County Kildare, Ireland near the county's border with Dublin beside the N7. Its population was recorded as 3,348 people in the 2016 census.
Kill is the birthplace of the Fenian John Devoy as well as home to ...
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Kill, County Waterford
Kill () is a village in County Waterford, Ireland located between Dungarvan and Tramore
Tramore (; ) is a seaside town in County Waterford, on the southeast coast of Ireland. With humble origins as a small fishing village, the area saw rapi ...
*Kill,
Kilbixy, County Westmeath
*Kill,
Kilcar
''Cill Charthaigh'' (anglicised as Kilcar) is a Gaeltacht village on the R263 regional road in the south west of County Donegal in Ireland. It is also a townland of 233 acres and a civil parish in the historic barony of Banagh.
The village it ...
, County Donegal
*Kill,
Kilcleagh, County Westmeath
United Kingdom
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Kill, County Tyrone, a
townland in County Tyrone
Sports
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Baserunner kill
In baseball, an assist (denoted by A) is a defensive statistic, baseball being one of the few sports in which the ''defensive'' team controls the ball. An assist is credited to every defensive player who fields or touches the ball (after it has be ...
, a baseball term
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Penalty kill
Short-handed is a term used in ice hockey and several related sports, including water polo, and refers to having fewer skaters (players) on the ice during play, as a result of a penalty. The player removed from play serves the penalty in the pen ...
, an ice hockey term
*Kill, a type of attack in
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
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Keal (disambiguation)
Keal may refer to:
People with the name
*Clifford Keal (1901–1965), Australian rules footballer
*Minna Keal (1909–1999), British composer
*Keal Carlile (born 1990), English rugby league player
Places
*Keal Cotes, a village in England
* East K ...
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Keel (disambiguation)
A keel is the central beam of the hull of a boat.
Keel may also refer to:
* Keel (anatomy), several meanings
Boats
* Humber Keel, a type of boat used on the Humber Estuary in England
* Keelboat or "keel", a flat-bottomed boat designed for use o ...
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Keele (disambiguation) Keele is a village in Staffordshire, England.
Keele may also refer to:
Britain
* Keele (ward), a local council ward in the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
* Keele University
Canada
*Keele Street, Toronto
* Keele station, a Toronto subway station ...
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Kiel (disambiguation) Kiel is a city in northern Germany.
Kiel may also refer to:
* Kiel (electoral district), a Bundestag constituency in Kiel
* Kiel (name)
* Kiel (mountain), Saxony, Germany
* Kiel, Missouri, US
* Kiel, Wisconsin, US
* Loyal, Oklahoma, US, original ...
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Kil (disambiguation) Kil or KIL may refer to:
*Kil Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden
**Kil, Värmland, Kil Municipality, Sweden
*Kil, Nacka Municipality, Sweden
*Kil Hundred, former hundred, Värmland, Sweden
*Kil, Telemark, Kragerø, Norway
*Dordtsche Kil, a rive ...
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Kile (disambiguation)
Kile or KILE may refer to:
* Darryl Kile, a Major League Baseball player
* Kile, a TeX/LaTeX text editor
* Kile, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
* Kile (surname)
* Kile (unit), an Ottoman unit of volume
* KWCC-FM, a radio station (89.5 FM) li ...
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Kyl (disambiguation) Kyl may refer to:
* John Henry Kyl (1919–2002), U.S. politician
* Jon Kyl (born 1942), former U.S. politician
* Kauppakorkeakoulun Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat, a men's choir
See also
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* Kyhl
* Kyle (disambiguation)
* Kyll
The Kyll (), note ...
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Kyle (disambiguation)
Kyle or Kyles may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Kyle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Ireland
* Kyle, County Laois
* Kyle, County Wexford
Scotland
* Kyle, Ayrshire, area of Scotland which stretched across parts of modern-day East Ayrshire and South Ayrshir ...
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Kyll
The Kyll (), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as ''Celbis'',Ausonius, ''Mosella'', v. 359 is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel mountains, near the b ...
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The Kill (disambiguation) "The Kill" is a song by Thirty Seconds to Mars.
The Kill may also refer to:
* ''The Kill'' (novel) or ''La Curée'', a novel by Émile Zola
*"The Kill", a song by Joy Division from ''Still''
See also
*Kill (disambiguation)
*The Kills (disambiguat ...
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The Kills (disambiguation) The Kills are an indie rock band.
The Kills or Kills may also refer to:
* The Kills (novel), ''The Kills'' (novel), by Richard House, 2013
* ''The Kills'', a 2004 novel by Linda Fairstein#Publications, Linda Fairstein
* Kills (mixtape), ''Kills'' ...
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Killing (disambiguation)
Killing, Killings, or The Killing may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Killing'' (film), a 2018 Japanese film
* ''The Killing'' (film), a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick Television
* ''The Killing'' (Danish TV serie ...
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