TO KNOW HOW

Definition: TO KNOW HOW

TO KNOW HOW

1. To understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. `` If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.'' --Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO KNOW HOW

I need to know how to get at it. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

I'd love to know how they do that. (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

They want to know how come they never see you! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

I'd like to know how you got to be a Captain, anyway. (Catch-22; writing credit: Buck Henry)

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. (The Graduate; writing credit: Calder Willingham)

Nope, need to know how to surround a bitch with stability (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

To be a true player you have to know how to play (It Wasn't Me; performing artist: Shaggy)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Environmental Medicine: A Practical, Participatory Course/Textbook for Patients and Professionals, for All Who Need to Know How to Diagnose and Mana (reference)

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Henry, you'd be surprised to know how many people are talking about you. Credit: Library of Congress.

Isn't this nice-- the entire eastern seaboard is here--! They just want to know how we're doing! / / KAL. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When he has acquired that state, he is presumed to know how far that law is to be his guide, and how far he may make use of his freedom, and so comes to have it; till then, some body else must guide him, who is presumed to know how far the law allows a liberty. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I went down on my hands and knees to look for him, for I felt very curious to know how young Frogs ought to be amused.

They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

However, there is no way to know how long water may be unsafe. (references)

You need to know how they were prepared to know if they might contain crypto. (references)

To understand constipation, it helps to know how the colon (large intestine) works. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

There are nine domestic violence shelters in Turkey; non-Turkish citizens in theory may use these shelters, but they are unlikely to know how to access them. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Asturian

saber como. (various references)

Bemba

ukwishiba ifyo. (various references)

Cebuano

magtuon kon unsaon. (various references)

Chamorro

para ma tungó taimanu. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

yachana. (various references)

Faeroese

at vita hvussu. (various references)

French

savoir (knowing how to). (various references)

Frisian

witte hoe. (various references)

Hungarian

tudja (have a head on one's shoulders, have a way with children, have taken sy's measure, to go around the block, to know how many beans make five, to know how to do sg, to know one's own mind, to know one's place, to know one's stuff, to know poverty, to know the score, to know what one is talking about, to know what's what, to know where the shoe pinches, to know which side one's bread is buttered, to know which way the wind lies, to like what is good, to play one's cards well, to put the shoe on the right foot), tud lovagolni (to know how to ride), ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, vulpine, wily), mitől döglik a (to know how many beans make five), légy (fly, housefly, to know how many beans make five), lágyára (to know how many beans make five), hogyan kell csinálni vmit (to know how to do sg, to learn how to do sg), hányadán áll (to know how many beans make five, to know what's what), ügyes (able, adept, adroit, artful, clean, clever, crafted, cunning, dab, daedalian, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodge, expeditious, expenditious, facile, feat, good, habile, handy, ingenious, masterly, natty, nimble-fingered, politic, proficient, ready worker, skilful, skillful, skilly, slick, to know how many beans make five, versatile), érti a módját vminek (to know how to do sg), érti a csíziót (have the goods, to know how many beans make five, to know the ropes, to know the score), őt sem a gólya költötte (to know how many beans make five), ő sem esett a feje (to know how many beans make five). (various references)

Inuktitut

qaujisaqpaa. (various references)

Macedonian

znae kako. (various references)

Maori

moohio-tia. (various references)

Maya

sah. (various references)

Mohawk

-ewennahnotha'. (various references)

Pig Latin

otay owknay owhay

Provencal

saber far. (various references)

Ruanda

kemenya ingene wogira. (various references)

Samoan

e fiailoa le faiga. (various references)

Sepedi

kgona. (various references)

Spanish

saber (be conscious of, can, go around, hear, know, know how, knowledge, learn, learning, realize, savor, savour, taste, tell, to know, visit, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: kowtow.

-4 letters: kotow, nohow.

-5 letters: honk, hook, hoot, howk, knot, know, koto, nook, nowt, onto, took, toon, town, wonk, wont.

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