KAREN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Karen mean? 

• KAREN (noun)
  The noun KAREN has 1 sense:

1. the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands

  Familiarity information: KAREN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAREN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmese borderlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Karen; Karenic

Hypernyms ("Karen" is a kind of...):

Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula)

 Context examples 

"Warm water circulation is attacking the undersides of these ice shelves at their most vulnerable points," said study co-author Karen Alley.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

It is always difficult to put a value on the connection between meteorites and the origin of life; for example, earlier work has shown that vitamin B3 could have been produced non-biologically on ancient Earth, but it's possible that an added source of vitamin B3 could have been helpful, said Karen Smith of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa. Vitamin B3, also called nicotinic acid or niacin, is a precursor to NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), which is essential to metabolism and likely very ancient in origin.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)