OK
Encyclopedia
OK may refer to:
- OkayOkay"Okay" is a colloquial English word denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, or acknowledgment. "Okay" has frequently turned up as a loanword in many other languages...
, a word expressing approval or assent - A-okA-okAn A-OK is both a saying, derived from okay, and a hand-gesture done by connecting the thumb and forefinger in to a circle , and holding the other fingers straight or relaxed in the air.Unicode symbol U+1F44C represents this gesture....
, a circular hand sign
Abbreviations and acronyms
- OklahomaOklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
United States postal abbreviation - Czech AirlinesCzech AirlinesCzech Airlines j.s.c. , trading as Czech Airlines , is the national airline of the Czech Republic and temporary in Slovakia with its head office on the grounds of Ruzyně Airport in Ruzyně, Prague...
IATA airline designator - Circle KCircle KCircle K is an international chain of convenience stores, founded in 1951, in El Paso, Texas, United States. It is owned and operated by the Canadian-based Alimentation Couche-Tard.-Overview:...
, an international chain of convenience stores, known as OK in Hong Kong and Taiwan - Organized KonfusionOrganized KonfusionOrganized Konfusion is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry.-Recording career:Group...
, a hip hop group - One Kamerun Party, a political party in Cameroon
- Old Kinderhook, a nickname given to American President Martin Van Buren
Magazines
- OK!OK!OK! is a British weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly, its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004, OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006...
, a British celebrity magazine - OK magazine, a Dutch pro-pedophile activism publication by Vereniging MARTIJNVereniging MARTIJNVereniging MARTIJN is a Dutch association that advocates the acceptance of pedophilia and legalization of sexual relationships between adults and children. The group is widely reviled but not outlawed...
Music
- "OK" (Big Brovaz song)OK (Big Brovaz song)"OK" is the second single from British R&B collective Big Brovaz. It was also the second single taken from their debut album Nu-Flow, released in late 2002...
- "OK" (Farin Urlaub song)OK (Farin Urlaub song)"OK" is a song by Farin Urlaub. It's the third single and sixth track from his debut album Endlich Urlaub!. It's a hate song. It was originally meant for Die Ärzte. It's also one of the heaviest songs on the album.-Video:...
- Ok (album)Ok (album)Ok is the debut release of tabla player and music producer Talvin Singh, and it was nine months in the making. The title was chosen because of the universality of the word OK, which can be understood almost anywhere in the world...
, by Talvin Singh - OK (Chang Chen-yue album)OK (Chang Chen-yue album)OK is a Chang Chen-yue's ninth studio album that was released in 2007.-Track listing:*Note : The album does not provide English titles; the titles are approximate translations....
- Okay (German band)Okay (German band)Okay is a pop group from Frankfurt, Germany.Their song OKAY! reached #2 of the German music charts in 1988 and #1 of the Austrian charts.They received 2 gold records for this single.-Members:...
, aka O.K., a 1980s German pop group - "O.K.", a real single by the fictional band The Little Ladies, from the UK television series Rock Follies of '77
- OK!, a Pokémon theme song
Other uses
- O.k. (film)O.k. (film)o.k. is a 1970 West German anti-war film directed by Michael Verhoeven. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 43rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival...
, a 1970 West German anti-Vietnam War film directed by Michael Verhoeven - OK (dinghy)OK (dinghy)-History:In 1957 Axel Dangaard Olsen of Seattle, U.S.A., asked the Danish yacht designer Knud Olsen to prepare drawings for a light and fast single-handed sailing dinghy based on conventional plywood construction. The resulting design was named the O.K., using Knud Olsen's initials in reverse.The...
, a racing dinghy - Ok (glacier)Ok (glacier)Ok is a shield volcano in Iceland, to the west of Langjökull. It erupted during interglacials in the Pleistocene. The glacier on top is thought to have disappeared ....
, a shield volcano in Iceland - OK-SupremeOK-SupremeOK-Supreme was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1899 to 1939 located in Birmingham. Grass-track racing versions of the machines continued to be available until 1946.-History:...
, a British motorcycle manufacturer - OK Budućnost Podgorica, a Montenegrin volleyball club
- OK FM NagaOK FM NagaDZOK 97.5 Talk and News FM is a news station owned by PBN Broadcasting Network. The station's studio is located at 3rd Floor Romero Building Peñafrancia Avenue, Naga City, Camarines Sur....
, a Filipino radio station - OK HotelOK HotelThe OK Hotel was a bar and music venue located under the viaduct in Seattle's Pioneer Square district. The club's 15-year-plus life span came to an end with the Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, which damaged numerous buildings in the historic district.Most widely recognized as a prominent...
, a bar and music venue in Seattle, Washington, United States - OK Kosher CertificationOK Kosher CertificationOK Kosher Certification is one of the major kosher certification agencies.-Early history:In 1935, Abraham Goldstein founded Organized Kashrut Laboratories to meet the American Jewish community's need for Kosher food products....
, a food-products certification agency - Ok languagesOk languagesThe Ok languages are a family of a score of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea...
, a family of languages spoken on New Guinea - OK LigaOK LigaThe OK Liga is the Spanish rink hockey league and is widely regarded as one of the best leagues in the world. Since 2009 it includes also a women's league.-Champions by year:-Performance by club:...
, a Spanish rink hockey league - OK SodaOK SodaOK Soda was a soft drink created by The Coca-Cola Company in 1993 that aggressively courted the Generation X demographic with unusual advertising tactics, including endorsements and even outright negative publicity. It did not sell well in select test markets and was officially declared out of...
, a soft drink - O.K. Range, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
- Mountain OkMountain OkThe Mountain Ok are a region, language, and a group of natives from Papua New Guinea. Not much is known about the obscure and hard-to-reach group at this time, as they are only reachable by a prop-plane on an ill-maintained dirt runway and no other form of transportation...
, ethnic group in Papua New Guinea - OK, a character, Om Kapoor, in the film Om Shanti Om
- OK, the ring of integersRing of integersIn mathematics, the ring of integers is the set of integers making an algebraic structure Z with the operations of integer addition, negation, and multiplication...
of an algebraic number field K