KNOCK
\nˈɒk], \nˈɒk], \n_ˈɒ_k]\
Definitions of KNOCK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
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a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
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rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"
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sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"
By Princeton University
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a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
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a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
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rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
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To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
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To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
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A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
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A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
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To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.
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To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
By Oddity Software
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
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To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
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To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
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A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
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A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
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To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.
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To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
By Noah Webster.
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A blow or stroke with something hard or heavy; rap.
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To give a blow to; to strike with something hard or heavy; slang, to criticize harshly.
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To drive or strike against something.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To strike with something hard or heavy: to drive or be driven against: to strike for admittance: to rap.
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To strike: to drive against.
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A sudden stroke: a rap.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a stroke on a door for admittance; a rap.
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To strike; to drive against; to drive. To knock down, to strike down; to fell. To knock out, to force out by a blow or blows. To knock up, to arouse by knocking; to weary out with excessive toil. To knock off, to force off by beating; to assign to a bidder at an auction by a blow with a hammer; also to knock down. To knock on the head, to stun or kill by a blow or blows; to defeat.
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To strike with something hard or heavy; to drive or be driven against; to clash; to rap. To knock about, to idle about. To knock off, to stop work. To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self beaten.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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