knock, belt, rap, whack, whang
(noun) the act of hitting vigorously; āhe gave the table a whackā
knock, roast
(noun) negative criticism
knock
(noun) a bad experience; āthe school of hard knocksā
knock, knocking
(noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); āthe knocking grew louderā
knock, bash, bang, smash, belt
(noun) a vigorous blow; āthe sudden knock floored himā; āhe took a bash right in his faceā; āhe got a bang on the headā
knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
(verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; āThe paper criticized the new movieā; āDonāt knock the food--itās freeā
knock, strike hard
(verb) deliver a sharp blow or push; āHe knocked the glass clear across the roomā
bump, knock
(verb) knock against with force or violence; āMy car bumped into the treeā
knock
(verb) rap with the knuckles; āknock on the doorā
pink, ping, knock
(verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early; āthe car pinged when I put in low-octane gasolineā; āThe car pinked when the ignition was too far retardedā
tap, rap, knock, pink
(verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface; āhe was tapping his fingers on the table impatientlyā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)
An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
A sharp impact.
(figuratively) Criticism.
(automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
(cricket) A batsman's innings.
(cycling) synonym of hunger knock
knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)
(transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
(transitive, colloquial) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
(transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
(transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
(ambitransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
Knock
A suburb of and ward in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
A village in Clare, Ireland.
A village in Mayo, Ireland, location of the Knock Shrine.
A village on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4931).
A village in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6827).
Source: Wiktionary
Knock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Knocking.] Etym: [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka.Cf. Knack.]
1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another. Bacon.
2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving.
– To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey.
– To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist.
– To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." Thackeray.
Knock, v. t.
1. 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. When heroes knock their knotty heads together. Rowe.
2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. Master, knock the door hard. Shak. To knock down. (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off.
– To knock in the head, or on the head, to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. [Colloq.] -- To knock off. (a) To force off by a blow or by beating. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter. (c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- To knock out, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.
– To knock up. (a) To arouse by knocking. (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.] "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers." Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets.
Knock, n.
1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at the door." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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