knock

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"So, if your friends are giving you a hard time, tell 'em to knock it the hell off.

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Quick take

the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of knock gathered in one view.

noun

the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder"

noun

negative criticism

noun

a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for knock.

noun

the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder"

noun

negative criticism

noun

a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"

noun

a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"

noun

the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"

verb

deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room"

verb

rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"

verb

knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"

verb

make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"

verb

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"

verb

find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free"

Example sentences

"So, if your friends are giving you a hard time, tell 'em to knock it the hell off.

We should applaud and celebrate this, not knock down how he's not a senior developer yet.

They're something you learn how to create in one semester in college and you can knock out a simple one in a few weeks.

At any point, a no-knock warrant could be incorrectly issued for my house and I could have paramilitary troops attack.

As I enjoy the afterlife there, knocking back flagons of mead and knocking up wenches, while trading tall tales of valor with the other chosen, there comes a knock at the door.

They are almost uniquely a product of the drug war. One can imagine very few situations outside of drugs were evidence could be so easily destroyed as to justify a no-knock warrant.

I always like stuff like this because you see that these people who knock it out of the park apparently effortlessly actually struggle like all the rest of us normal humans behind the scenes.

Create strains of "knock-out" rodents, where you block the production of certain chemicals or proteins you think ketamine might affect by altering their genetic composition.

An Eliot-Spitzer-Client-9 level scandal uncovered in this fashion would absolutely knock her out of the ring, though it wouldn't be as satisfying as seeing her forced to step down for pursuing this case.

I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!

Now, if youre not from the USA, I can already hear you objecting that its impractical to drive a small fleet of ocean-going vessels on suburban streets, or that its wasteful to retain a staff of thousands just to make the daily commute, or that its not all that great, environment-wise, to knock over city blocks every time I make a Starbucks run.