noun
Meaning 1
Knowledge; the state of knowing.
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Usage: rare, uncountable
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noun
Knowledge; the state of knowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
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noun
Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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particle
Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information one thinks the listener should keep in mind.
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Usage: Singlish
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verb
To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To be or become aware or cognizant.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To be acquainted (with another person).
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Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to 'know someone in the biblical sense' or to 'know biblically'.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, euphemistic, transitive
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
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verb
To experience.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
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verb
To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: knowing
verb
accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: acknowledge, recognize, recognise
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Broader terms: accept
verb
be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
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verb
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cognize, cognise
Antonyms: ignore
Narrower terms: keep track, recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
verb
be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Narrower terms: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee
verb
know how to do or perform something
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Narrower terms: know the score, be with it, be on the ball, know what's going on, know what's what, master, control, get the hang
verb
have fixed in the mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Narrower terms: have down
verb
have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: experience, live
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Broader terms: experience, see, go through
Narrower terms: taste, relive, live over
verb
perceive as familiar
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Broader terms: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
verb
be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
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Broader terms: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
verb
know the nature or character of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
verb
have sexual intercourse with
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copulate, mate, pair, couple
Narrower terms: take, have, fornicate
History
From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3- (“to know”). {{col|en|title=Cognates |from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic knega (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken). |from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Romanian cunoaște, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “to know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“to know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”) and Hindi जानना (jānnā, “to know,understand”).
Shortening of you know (sense 4)—Singapore English favours pro-drop constructions (Wee, 2003).
Across languages
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