Knowing in a sentence as a noun

Its simply a matter of not knowing what happens on the 7th floor of the Times Building.

I can't imagine someone hating me without knowing me.

Sleep tight knowing your direct deposit information is in good hands.

The worst thing about working yourself to death at Zynga would be knowing you were toiling to produce shoddy little pseudo-games.

Lawyers don't get rich for knowing the law, bankers don't get rich for understanding economics and programmers don't get rich for slinging code.

Here, I'll do with David Brooks what he did with Snowden -- avoiding looking at the situation, slighting someone's character without knowing anything important.

Knowing in a sentence as an adjective

I learned to make decisions in the absence of firm information, knowing that I may be wrong but that I can't make any forward progress without trying something out that is almost certainly wrong.

So this false dichotomy of "creatives" and mechanistic science robots propped up by people who simply don't want to learn math and are mad that not knowing math and science is less of a badge of honor in society anymore misses the point.

"I was offered the chance to make a phone call, but the only number I even have memorized anymore is my mother's, and despite knowing that my friends were probably scared to death looking for me, I wasn't at the point of calling her.

How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.

That is the purpose of writing a 10-page critical analysis of a theme in a Shakespeare play, or building a toy memory allocator: not because knowing Shakespeare or being able to write malloc is important, but because it teaches students to think and analyze.

Knowing definitions

noun

a clear and certain mental apprehension

adjective

evidencing the possession of inside information

adjective

characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

See also: intentional

adjective

alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"

See also: knowledgeable

adjective

highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"

See also: knowledgeable learned lettered well-educated well-read