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Definition: Know-all |
Know-allNoun1. (informal) someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "know-all" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references) |
Synonym: Know-allSynonym: know-it-all (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: know All Men by these presents (law), Know All Men by these presents.... |
| "Know-all" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Know-all" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.47% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.53% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "know-all": Nellie-know-all, uppity-know-all. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "know-all"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 知"所有. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 알 모" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ow-allknay всезнайка (know all, know-it-all). (various references) allvetare (know all, whiz kid, whizkid). (various references) người tự cho cái gì cũng biết, người cái gì cũng biết. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-l-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: allow, knoll, llano. | |
-3 letters: alow, awol, kaon, know, koan, kola, lank, lawn, loan, lown, olla, walk, wall, wonk. | |
-4 letters: all, awl, awn, koa, law, low, naw, now, oak, oka, owl, own, wan, wok, won. | |
-5 letters: al, an, aw, ka, la, lo, na, no, on, ow, wo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6E 6F 77 2D 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K n o w - a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006E 006F 0077 002D 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4580818915677878 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국, китайский, китаец, kinesisk |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국, кореец, корейский, koreansk, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, 러시아, русский, ryss, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, 스웨덴, шведский, svensk, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , 트남, вьетнамский, vietnames, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국, английский, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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