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Definition: Knock |
KnockNoun1. The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder". 2. Negative criticism. 3. A vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head". 4. A bad experience; "the school of hard knocks". 5. The act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack". Verb1. Deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room.". 2. Rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door". 3. Knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree". 4. Make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently". 5. Of car engines, when firing too early. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "knock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Bible | Knock "Though Orientals are very jealous of their privacy, they never knock when about to enter your room, but walk in without warning or ceremony. It is nearly impossible to teach an Arab servant to knock at your door. They give warning at the outer gate either by calling or knocking. To stand and call is a very common and respectful mode. Thus Moses commanded the holder of a pledge to stand without and call to the owner to come forth (Deut. 24:10). This was to avoid the violent intrusion of cruel creditors. Peter stood knocking at the outer door (Acts 12:13, 16), and the three men sent to Joppa by Cornelius made inquiry and 'stood before the gate' (10:17, 18). The idea is that the guard over your privacy is to be placed at the entrance." Knocking is used as a sign of importunity (Matt. 7:7, 8; Luke 13:25), and of the coming of Christ (Luke 12:36; Rev. 3:20). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A periodic percussive sound cause by excessive play in mechanical parts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | To sound the mine roof for competence by rapping. (references) |
Slang | Verb. Source: Skater kids; from the word knock. Definition: To hit; strike; rap. Strike a blow. Context: A word used by young skaters/hip hop enthusist to describe someone who they do not trust. Social Source: Kids from Berkeley, California. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | KNOCK. To knock a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. To knock off; to conclude: phrase borrowed from the blacksmith. To knock under; to submit. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Knocking (also called pinking or pinging) in internal combustion engines occurs when fuel in the cylinder is ignited by the firing of the spark plug but burns too quickly, combusting completely before the optimum moment during the compression phase of the four-stroke cycle. The resulting shockwave collides with the rising piston, creating a characteristic metallic "pinging" sound. The fuel is normally ignited slightly before the point of maximum compression to allow a small time for the flame front of the burning fuel to expand throughout the mixture, so that maximum pressure occurs at the point of maximum compression. It is only when this flame front arrives too early, for whatever reason, that the knocking effect occurs. If allowed to persist, knocking can cause vibration and damage to engine parts.Knocking can typically be prevented by the use of higher octane gasoline, the addition of octane-increasing "lead or isooctane additives to the gasoline, reduction of in-cylinder temperatures (such as through cooling or compression ratio reduction), or retardation of spark plug ignition. Correct ignition timing is essential for optimum engine performance and efficiency. Modern automotive engines have sensors that can detect knock and delay the spark plug firing to prevent it, allowing cars to safely use gasoline of lower octane ratings, with the consequence of reduced power and efficiency.
Knocking is a different phenomenon from pre-ignition, which occurs when the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder ignites before the spark plug fires. Pre-ignition is caused by heat buildup in engine components or overheating of the air-fuel mixture during compression, and cannot be prevented by delaying spark plug firing. As such, if pre-ignition is allowed to continue for any length of time, severe engine damage can result.
External Links
- Gasoline FAQ
- Detonation, Knock, and Pre-Ignition 101
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Engine knocking."
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Knock (from the Irish language Án Cnoc meaning The Hill) is a small town in County Mayo in Ireland where it is alleged that on August 21, 1879 the Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared to local people. In the 20th century it became one of Europe's major Roman Catholic Marian shrines, alongside Lourdes and Fatima. It was visited by Pope John Paul II, a supporter of devotion to the Virgin Mary, in 1979.
The 'Apparition'
On the 21st August, 1879 (a wet Thursday evening, a fact that was of importance to descriptions of the event), at 8pm, fifteen people whose ages ranged from six years to seventy-five and included men, women, teenagers and children, witnessed what they claimed was an apparition of Our Lady, her husband St. Joseph, and St. John the Evangelist. The apparition, they claimed, occurred at the south gable end of the local small parish church, which had been built in 1828, one year before Catholic Emancipation. The appearance was described in contemporary accounts as having involving a blaze of what they called 'Heavenly light'. Behind the three, it was claimed, a plain altar appeared was a cross and a lamb (a traditional image of Christ, as reflected in the religious phrase The Lamb of God) with adoring angels. Mary was described as clothed in white robes with a brilliant crown on her head. Over the Virgin's forehead and above her crown she wore a beautiful full-bloom golden rose. She was described as "deep in prayer", with her eyes and hands raised towards Heaven. St. Joseph, also wearing white robes, stood on the Virgin's right. St. John the Evangelist was dressed in white vestments and resembled a bishop, with a small mitre. He appeared to be preaching and he held an open book in his left hand.
Those who witnessed the alleged apparition stood in the pouring rain reciting the traditional Marian meditative mantra-like prayer, the Rosary. Though the very rain was spilling down, the claimed the gable end of the church, where the supposed figures stood, remained completely dry.
Reaction
As with other claimed Marian apparitions the Roman Catholic Church was slow to accept the validity of what it was suggested had happened. A detailed inquiry was carried out, as had been the case with Lourdes and would also be the case with sites like Fatima. Two Roman Catholic commissions of inquiry took place, in 1879 and 1936. Eventually, amid some hostility within the local hierarchy, Knock was accepted under Catholic belief as a location of a Marian apparition and a pilgrimage site to which Catholic organisations, networks and parishes could travel.
The cultural context
Subequent sociologists, while neither accepting nor disputed what had allegedly occurred but seeking to understand its cultural context, noted the timing of the events, how as it Lourdes and Fatima the 'visitations' occurred at a time of immense cultural, social and economic change, and occurred to people whose traditional society was under threat from dramatic change. In the 1870s, Ireland was undergoing a period of dramatic upheaval. Some parts of the island had experienced the last waves of what proved to be a minor Famine but which nevertheless brought back memories of the Great Irish Famine of the late 1840s that had decimated the countryside.
The appearance of railways brought new travel opportunities and challenges to closeknit communities, while the 1870s saw the beginnings of land reform that would change Irish rural life, reform initially fought for through mass mobilisation and sometimes violence with organisations like Michael Davitt's Land League and through the radical political leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell. (The infamous Land Agent Captain Boycott, whose communal oustracisation on account of his treatment of local tenantry in the late 1870s became a worldwide cause celebré and which gave the english language the verb to boycott - meaning 'to oustracise completely' - , was based in County Mayo only a few mile from Knock.) In a time of change, symbols like the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph (known together within Catholicism as the Holy Family) marked a reminder of stability and tradition in a society whose change many people found bewildering. Depending on whether one accepted the validity or the apparation or the religious beliefs underpinning it, it could be seen either as a dillusion by a marginalised traditional society clinging to old certainties, or in a Catholic religious context the appearance of the 'Mother of God' to people marginalised by society to show her support and offer her comfort.
The Pilgrimage Site
The growth of railways and the appearance of local and national newspapers fueled interest in what had up to then been a small Mayo village. Reports of 'strange occurances in a small Irish village' were featured almost immediately in the international media, notably The Times (of London). Newspapers from as far away as Chicago sent reporters to cover the Knock phenomenon, while Queen Victoria asked her government in Dublin Castle to send her a report about the event. In later years Catholic nationalists used the apparition to symbolically challenge Queen Victoria and her descendants' position in Ireland using for Our Lady of Knock the title Queen of Ireland.
Knock today
Though it remained for almost 100 years a major Irish pilgrimage site, it established itself as a world religious site in large measure during the last quarter of the twentieth century, largely due to the work of its longterm parish priest, Monsignor James Horan. Horan presided over a major rebuilding of the site, with the provision of a new massive Basilica (the first in Ireland) alongside the old church, which could no longer cope with visitor numbers. In 1979, the centenary of the alleged apparition, Horan ensured that Pope John Paul II, himself a devotee of Mary, visited Knock Shrine during his Irish visit. Most controversially of all, Horan secured from Irish Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey millions of pounds of state aid to build a major airport near Knock. The project was condemned by critics in the media and the opposition, one of whom spoke of building the airport of a "foggy, boggy hillside". Contrary to the critics' expectation however, Knock Airport (now known as Horan International Airport after the late Monsignor who founded it) became a commercial success, drawing not just pilgrims as passengers but also becoming the air-gateway for the entire Connacht region.
Conservative Catholics, critical of Ireland's embracing of the liberal agenda in the 1990s (including the introduction of divorce and the decriminalisation of homosexuality), have used ceremonies at Knock to urge political campaigns on issues to do with 'family life', abortion and contraception. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, on a a visit to the Shrine in June 1993 spoke on the issue of abortion, as has conservative family values politician Dana Rosermary Scallon and visiting religious leaders from around the world.
Knock Shrine now attracts over one and a half million visitors annually and is the west of Ireland's major visitor attraction.
The Prayer to 'Our Lady of Knock - Queen of Ireland'
A number of prayers are associated with Knock. One of the most widely known is the following:
Our Lady of Knock Queen of Ireland, you gave hope to your people in a time of distress and comforted them in sorrow. You have inspired countless pilgrims to pray with confidence to your Son, remembering His promise; “Ask and your shall receive, seek and you shall find.”Help me to remember that we are all pilgrims on the road to heaven. Fill me with love and concern for my brothers and sisters in Christ, especially those who live with me.Comfort me when I am sick or lonely or depressed. Teach me how to take part ever more reverently in the holy Mass. Pray for me now, and at the hour of my death. Amen. Our Lady of Knock, pray for us.
See also
- Blessed Virgin Mary
- Marian apparitions
- Knock Marriage Bureau
- Our Lady of Knock
- Republic of Ireland
- Roman Catholic Church
- Walsingham
External links
- Official website of Knock Shrine
- Website about the town of Knock
- County Clare A History and Topography by Samuel Lewis (1837)
- Horan International Airport (Knock Airport) website
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Knock."
Synonyms: KnockSynonyms: bang (n), bash (n), belt (n), knocking (n), roast (n), smash (n), whack (n), whang (n), bump (v), ping (v), pink (v), rap (v), strike hard (v), tap (v). (additional references) |
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Impulse | Strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at; (attack); whip c. (punish). |
Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe. | |
Rashness | Donner tete baissee; knock, one's bead against a wall; (be unskillful); rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a fool's errand. |
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Screenplays | Knock 'em dead (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) I don't care if she's my cousin or not, I'm gonna knock those boots again tonight (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) Come on, leave the stallion in the corral, you'll knock me into the fire (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) So knock on the door (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) Knock it off (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) | |
Lyrics | Knock a little louder shugah (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S) Knock, knock , knock on the door (Lucky; performing artist: Britney Spears) You can knock me down, step on my face ("Blue Suede Shoes"; performing artist: Carl Perkins) Can't seem to to hide the feeling that you knock me from my seat (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree) But if he ever saw him again, he'd probly knock him out (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Clever | Sign at the Pavlov Institute: Knock. Please don't ring bell. (references; author: unknown) Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dr. Knock (1973) Knock Out (1973) Don't Knock the Ox (1970) Doctor Knock (1966) Doktor Knock (1966) | |
Song Titles | Knock Three Times (performing artist: Tony Orlando and Dawn) | |
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 | Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY. |  | A large Don Carlos reaching to knock off the crown of a frightened King of Spain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Will he knock it out?. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I said parson's sermon sure did knock hell outa th' Home Brew Bunch!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Truman: "You've got everything it takes to knock him out". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chicago police car moving in to knock down a burning cross after African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Billy Haley and the Comets performing in the movie "Don't knock the rock". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. Oregon, a knock out. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Every knock a boost. A little careful hammer work pushes a big gun along toward completion in an eastern arsenal. The man shown is stamping the location line on a medium-caliber gun. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Impatient knock on a door. |
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Alexander Pope | You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. |
| Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody. | |
Ivan Turgenev | However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. |
Milton Berle | If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
Thomas p Kempis | The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And then let our author, or any body else, join a knock on the head, or a cut on the face, with as much reverence and respect as he thinks fit. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He passed the door a dozen times, before he had the courage to go up and knock. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock. McDonalds, he thought |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the same time, however, certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door on their side also |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Take it out of your hip pocket, knock it against your palm to shake out the dirt and pocket fuzz and bits of tobacco |
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Economic History | Ireland | An extensive road and rail network provides internal transportation, supplemented by domestic air services between Dublin and Ireland's three other international airports (Shannon, Cork, and Knock) and six regional airports. (references) |
Travel | Ireland | Ireland has four international airports (Dublin, Shannon, Cork, and Knock). (references) |
Kenya | Local assembly of complete knock down (ckd) kits, especially for electrical and electronic goods, is recommended; this has proven viable in the Kenyan market, and has an import duty advantage. (references) | |
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Nellie Connally | To tell me what was going on. And, otherwise, I was there just starkly alone. Well, there was a knock on the door. And I said, come in. And Lady Bird came in. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As we knock down the barriers to growth, we must redouble our efforts for freer and fairer trade. |
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| "Knock" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 49.56% of the time. "Knock" is used about 1,715 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 49.56% | 850 | 8,295 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.13% | 585 | 10,828 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.2% | 261 | 18,276 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.76% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 0.23% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.12% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,715 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "knock" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Knock | Last name | 130 | 56,249 |
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Expressions using "knock": get the knock ♦ he got knock on the head ♦ humming knock on the head ♦ knock about ♦ knock against ♦ knock against smb. ♦ knock against smb. in the street ♦ knock against smth. ♦ knock around ♦ knock at ♦ knock at an open door ♦ knock at the door ♦ knock away ♦ knock back ♦ knock cold ♦ knock down ♦ knock down and kill ♦ knock down price ♦ knock down the value of ♦ knock down to ♦ knock home ♦ knock in ♦ knock into ♦ knock into a cocked hat ♦ knock it off! ♦ knock kneed ♦ knock knees ♦ knock knock! ♦ knock off ♦ knock off smoking ♦ knock on ♦ knock on the head ♦ knock oneself ♦ knock out ♦ knock over ♦ knock repeatedly ♦ knock rummy ♦ knock smb. for six ♦ knock smb. off his perch ♦ knock the bottom out of ♦ knock the bottom out of an argument ♦ knock the door ♦ knock the heads together ♦ knock the sawdust out of smb. ♦ knock through ♦ knock to pieces ♦ knock together ♦ knock under ♦ knock up ♦ knock up against ♦ take a knock ♦ take the knock ♦ To knock about ♦ To knock down ♦ To knock in the head ♦ To knock off ♦ to knock on the head ♦ To knock out ♦ To knock under ♦ To knock up. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "knock": knock-about, knock-back, knock-down, knock-down-and-drag-out, knock-downs, Knock-for-knock, knock-knee, knock-kneed, knock-knees, knock-knock, Knock-off, knock-offs, knock-on, knock-on-effect, Knock-out, knock-out, Knock-out drops, knock-outs, knock-proof, knock-shop, knock-tee, knock-up, knock-you-down. | |
Ending with "knock": anti-knock. | |
Containing "knock": anti-knock rating, to have knock-knees. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "knock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | klap (hit, strike). (various references) | |
Albanian | kritikoj me ashpërsi, kritikë e ashpër (flak), trokitje (patter, percussion, rataplan, rattle), trokas (clink, dab, drum, percuss, rap, tap), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, trim, twit, upbraid), qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), përplas (bash, clash, crash, flap, fling, grind, slam), habis (amuse, astonish, astound, bemuse, confound, daze, dazzle, wow, zap), goditje (assault, bang, bash, batting, beat, biff, blow, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clean and jerk, clip, dash, dint, drive, fib, flap, hit, ictus, impingement, incitement, infliction, jab, joggle, jolt, knocking, lick, percussion, poke, pound, push, shock, slat, sock, stimulus, strike, stroke, thrust, thwack, tremor, welt), godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas me një çokë, godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), çudit (amaze, astonish, daze, marvel, surprise), çudis (amaze, astonish, daze, marvel, surprise). (various references) | |
Arabic | محنة قاسية, نقد لاذع (stricture, vitriol), لكم (box, bust, punch, slug, sock, strike, to you, yours), قرع بدق, قرع (bang, banging, beat, beating, chide, drum, hitting, knocking, rap, rapping, ring, sound, striking, tap, toll), تربيت (caress), طرق الباب, طرق (bang, beating, enter, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, pounding, puncture, rap, tool), ضربة عنيفة (bang, bash, knockdown, slam, smack, smash, swat, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), خبط (bang, strike down), إصطدم بشئ, ربت (clap, dab, fondle, gentle, pat, rap, slap), دق (beetle, chink, hammer, hammer down, maul, percussion, pound, pounding, pulverization, reduce, triturate, trituration). (various references) | |
Basque | kolpe (blow, hit, stroke). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тропвам, почуквам (rap), почукване (knocking, rap, tap, tapping), похлопвам (rap), прекъсване (adjournment, breaking, cessation, check, cutback, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disjunction, halt, intermission, interruption, letup, outage, pause, pretermission, standstill, suspension, time out), блъскам (beat, bump up against, dash, hammer, hustle, jostle, moil, pound, press, push, ram, shove, slam, smite, squash, strike, thump), намирам кусури на (pick holes in), несполука (abortion, down, dud, grief, miscarriage, mucker, off, unhappiness), оскърбление (abuse, affront, contumely, flout, galling, hurt, insult, offence, outrage), потропвам (rap), шок (jar, jolt, shake, shock, turn), удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knap, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), чукам (drive, hammer, knap, rattle, scutch), чукам се, чуквам (bump up against, repulse), чукване (knocking), хлопвам (bang, clap, slam, snap to), сащисвам, смайвам (amaze, baffle, bedazzle, dazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, kill, knock out, rock, stagger, stun), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), критикувам рязко. (various references) | |
Chinese | 敲 (extort, to hit, to knock, to strike). (various references) | |
Czech | klepat (beat), klepání (clack, knocking, rap), zaklepat (tap), vyspat se (get some sleep), usmlouvat, udeřit (bang, fillip, hit, impinge, punch, strike, swipe), tlouci (batter, hit, palpitate, pestle, throb, thump), snížit (abate, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away), shazovat (cast, disparage, shed), rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, sock, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), praštit (bash, belt, bust, catch, fling, hit, hurl, slosh, slug, strike, swipe), potloukat se (loaf, slouch around, vagabond), nezdar (failure, miscarriage, reversal, set back, setback), bušit (palpitate, pant, pelt, race, throb, thump). (various references) | |
Danish | banke (hit, strike). (various references) | |
Dutch | slaan (beat, hit, mark, sound, stamp, strike), opvallen (hit, strike), kloppen (be correct, be right, beat, come to an agreement, hit, pulsate, strike, throb), klappen (beat, clap, click, hit, rattle, strike). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frapo, frapi (hit, strike). (various references) | |
Faeroese | banka (hit, strike). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشت (Buffet, Clump, Fist, Handful, Pounce, Punch, Wisp, Yerk), کوبیدن (Beat, Bruise, Grind, Hammer, Mallet, Nail, Pash, Pound, Ram, Smite, Stave, Stub, Thrash, Thresh), عیبجوءی (Criticism, Denunciation), ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hack, Hew, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), صدای تغ تغ , درزدن , بهم خوردن (Collide, Collission, Foul), بدگوءی کردن از. (various references) | |
Finnish | iskeä (bump, deliver a blow, hit, hit hard, pick up, strike). (various references) | |
French | frapper, heurter, coup, cognement (knocking). (various references) | |
German | klopfen (bang, beat, beating, clap, detonate, hammer, hammering, hit, knocking, palpitate, palpitation, Pat, pink, pound, pulsate, pulsation, rap, strike, tap, tenderize, throb, to detonate, to knock, to palpitate), schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock about, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), schlag (apoplectic fit, ball, bang, bash, beat, belt, bent, blow, bolt, buffet, chime, chop, clap, clout, clump, cosh, coup, cuff, fit, helping, hit, kick, kind, lash, Pat, pelt, percussion, poke, pulsation, punch, putt, seizure, shock, shot, slap, smack, smash, sock, sort, stinger, strike, stripe, stroke, stroke of apoplexy, swat, tack, tap, thud, thump, thwack, type, wallop). (various references) | |
Greek | κρούω (peal, ring), κτύποσ (bang, beat, clack, ictus), κτύπος (detonation), κτυπώ (bang, buffet, bump, clack, clobber, clout, cudgel, hit, impinge, larrup, maul, rap, shroud, slat, smite, strike, swat, thrash), χτύπημα (beating, blow, bump, chatter, chop, clip, knocking, slam, strike, stroke, thrust, whop), χτύποσ (clank, click), χτυπώ (beat, beat up, beaten, chime, clank, clap, clink, clip, clobber, hit, hurt, jangle, punish, slosh, smite, spank, strike, strike down, swat, thrash, thump), οικονομική ζημιά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לרתוק (bind, hold, join), טפיח" (dab, slap, strike, tap), בטיש" (kick, tamping), "פק (pulsation), "פיק" (beat, rap, stroke, tap, tapping), "טח (beating), ל 'וח (butt, horn, lunge), קיש" (beating, click, percussion, rattle, snap, tap), ל קוש (beat, rattle, strike), מכ" (blow, bump, cut, defeat, hit, plague, smash, striking, stroke, swat), ל"פוק (bang, beat, drive on, rap, strike, throb, tick), ל"כות (affict, beat, defeat, flap, hit, hurt, kill, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, swipe, wound), ל"כיש (bite, snap, sting), ל"קיש (beat, sound, strike, tap, touch), לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, mill, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, swipe, thrash, thrust down, thump, thwack), מ"לומ" (blow, hit, pound, smash, stroke, thunderclap), ל קוף (beat, bruise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kopogás (blatter, clattering, clop, jarring, knocking, ping, pit-a-pat, rapping, spatter, splatter, tattoo). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketokan (dab, pounding, rap), pukulan (beating, chop, punch, smack), mengetok, mencela (blame, carp, condemn, decry, denounce, disapprove, disapprove of, taunt), menampar (bash, box, slap). (various references) | |
Irish | cnag. (various references) | |
Italian | picchiare (batter, beat, belt, come to blows, cuff, fight, hit, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, tap, thump, whack), colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, swipe, thwack), urtare (annoy, buffet, bump, butt, clash, irritate, poke, push, shock, strike, thrust), battere (bang, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belabour, chime, clobber, detonate, flail, flap, flog, flutter, fly, hammer, hit, lambaste, maul, mint, outplay, overcome, pound, pulsate, rap, strike, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, whack, whip, win). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ノック (fungo, mac). (various references) | |
Korean | 노크. (various references) | |
Manx | striggylagh, labbal (banging, bash, buffeting, clout, clouting, cuff, hit, hitting, strike, striking, thump, thumping), crankal (bang, tap), crank (rap, tap), bwoalley (assault, bang, bash, batter, beat, beat up, belabour, buffet, chime, clap, club, flap, hammer, hit, mint, percussion, play, pound, pulsate, punch, rhythm, ring, rise of penis, scramble, shock, slam, slap, strike, thrash, thresh, throb, toll, wallop), builley (bash, beat, beat as pulse, bump, cadence, cadence of voice, cast, choosing, clap, fervour, fit, frenzy, hit, impact, madness, pulsate, pulsation, punch, slam, slap, strike, stroke, sweep, thump, toot, toot on horn, whack). (various references) | |
Maya | koop (to knock). (various references) | |
Occitan | trucar, còp (blow, hit, stroke). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockknay.(various references) | |
Polish | uderzać (hit, strike), pukać (hit, strike). (various references) | |
Portuguese | bater (bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, biff, bob, bop, brandish, chastise, churn, clap, club, curl, curry, deckle, dodder, fling, flog, forge, form, froth, hit, hunt, jab, knead, lam, lap, lick, plash, pulsate, pulse, ram, scutch, slap, slog, sound, splash, stir, strike, swing, thrash, thresh, type, wave, whack, whip, whirl, whisk, worst). (various references) | |
Romanian | da jos (get down, overthrow, spill, strip), învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, defeat, discomfit, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), bocãni (clamp, hammer, thump, tramp), cioc (bang, beak, bill, Buss, click-clack, click-click, goatee, mouth, nib, nose, nozzle, pecker, rostrum, sip, snout, spout, tuft), ciocãni (drum, hammer, Peck, peen, pelt, pound, rap), ciocãnit (rat-a-tat), ciocãniturã (hammering, rap), critica aspru (castigate, flog, lash into, pan, pick oakum, scathe, slash), înfrânge (bear down, beat down, best, break, curb, defeat, foil, master, overcome, overmatch, overpower, pip, stifle, vanquish, worsen, worst), da gata (finish, polish off), toc (case, casement, casing, cover, feather, holster, housing, pen, penholder, plume, sheath, smack, stalk, tap), face ca pe o albie de porci, izbiturã (bang, blow, bounce, bump, concussion, dash, hit, jolt, stroke), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, slash, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), sãpunealã (pi-jaw, punishment, roast, soaping, wigging), se ciocni (bump, collide, conflict, dash against, encounter, fall foul of, foul, go foul of, hit, impinge, jar, meet, run foul of, strike, telescope), se istovi, se izbi (beat, hit, strike), se lovi (bang, hit, strike), criticã asprã (a slashing criticism, deprecation, fustigation, lash). (various references) | |
Russian | стучаться, стучать;ударять стук;удар, стучать (clunk, drum, pink, rap, thump), стукнуть (bump), стук (clatter, clop, con, knocking, patter, pinking, rap, rataplan), ударять (bang, beat, biff, crump, dub, jab, jounce, rap, slugged, slugging, strike, thump, whang), удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, cut, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), резко критиковать (assail, flay, pick to pieces), отстукивать, бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, drub, hit, kicked, kicking, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop), постучать, детонация (detonation, pinking). (various references) | |
Scottish | buille (a blow, blow). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kucati (beat, percuss, tick, type), kucanje (knocking, rap, throb, typing), kritika (castigation, criticism, critique), zakucati (hammer), uvreda (affront, assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, offence, offense, outrage, pique, umbrage, wound), udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), udar (blow, fire, impact, jerk, shock, smack, strike, stroke, thrust), lupati (bang, hit, pound, rack, tap, throb), lupanje (knocking, stamp, throb, throbbing). (various references) | |
Spanish | llamar (appeal to, beckon, buzz, call, call back, call in, call off, call over, call up, call upon, draw, engage, get, get on to, give a ring, have in, hit, hollo, holloa, invoke, knock up, name, recall, ring, ring the bell, ring up, strike, summon, term, to call, touch off, whip in), golpeteo (pitter patter, pounding, rattle), golpear (bang, bat, beat, beat up on, beetle, bop, buffet, bump, clip, clobber, club, drive, flail, hit, jab, kick, lash, punch, rap, rattle, slam, slap, slice, slog, smash, smite, strike, tee off, thrash, thump, wallop, whack). (various references) | |
Swedish | knacka (beat the rap, hit, rap, strike, tap), stöt (blast, bump, concussion, dig, hit, impact, impingement, impulse, jab, jar, jerk, job, jog, jolt, jostle, pass, percussion, prod, push, shock, shove, thrust, thump), slå (bang, bash, beat, bolt, buffet, cap, capture, cast, catch, crossbar, dash, defeat, dial, drive, flap, hit, hurt smb., hurtle, impinge, lay, lick, mow, palpitate, pour, punch, ram, sit, slam, slap, slat, smash, smite, strike, stroke, tack, throw, trounce, warble, whang, whip), bulta (batter, beat, beetle, hammer, pound, ram, throb, thump). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงเคาะ (rat-tat), เคาะ (rap at, tap). (various references) | |
Turkish | kapıyı çalmak (beat at the door, beat on the door, knock the door), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hack, hit, impact, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, prick, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), vurma (blip, dash, hit, knocking, percussion, percussive, pound, pounding, shoot, strike, swat), teklemek (act up, hesitate, kick, misfire, skip, stutter), sertçe eleştirmek, devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hack, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, collide, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip), çalma (abstraction, blow, defalcation, larceny, pilferage, playing, rendering, rendition, stealing, strike, tendency, theft). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tyrkyldy (clatter, rattle), tarkyl, юarkyldy (clatter, rattle), юarkyldamak (clatter), зaknyюmak (collide, strike). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стукати (beat, chatter, clatter, dab, rap, thrash, thresh, thunder, wap), стук (flump, knocking), ударяти (beat, bump, bunt, bust, dab, hit, smite, strike), удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), пагорб (hummock, knoll, mound, pimple). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cú đánh (stroke), bị nghèo khổ. (various references) | |
Welsh | taro (beat, hit, hot, smite, stick, strike, suit, tap), curo (bang, batter, beat, belabor, clap, strike, throb), cnoc. (various references) | |
Zulu | -ngqongqoza (hit, strike). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | battuo, offensa, offensum, offensus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | touchier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Aiteite kai doqhsetai umin zhteite kai eurhsete krouete kai anoighsetai umin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Petite et dabitur vobis quaerite et invenietis pulsate et aperietur vobis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Byddeð. & eow beoð ge-seald. secheð.& ge hit findeð. cnokieð. & eowbeoð untynd. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Axe ye, and it schal be youun to you; seke ye, and ye schulen fynde; knocke ye, and it schal be openyd to you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | ¶ "Pangayo, ug kamo pagahatagan; pangita, ug kamo makakaplag; pagtuktok, ug kamo pagaablihan. |
| Chinese | 們 祈 求 、 就 給 們 ． 尋 找 、 就 尋 見 ． 叩 門 、 就 給 們 開 門 。 |
| Croatian | "Ištite i dat æe vam se! Tražite i naæi æete! Kucajte i otvorit æe vam se! |
| Danish | Beder, så skal eder gives; søger, så skulle I finde; banker på, så skal der lukkes op for eder. |
| Dutch | Bidt, en u zal gegeven worden; zoekt, en gij zult vinden; klopt, en u zal opengedaan worden. |
| Finnish | Anokaa, niin teille annetaan; etsikää, niin te löydätte; kolkuttakaa, niin teille avataan. |
| French | Demandez, et l`on vous donnera; cherchez, et vous trouverez; frappez, et l`on vous ouvrira. |
| German | Bittet, so wird euch gegeben; suchet, so werdet ihr finden; klopfet an, so wird euch aufgetan. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Mande, y'a ban nou. Chache, n'a jwenn. Frape, y'a louvri pou nou. |
| Hungarian | Kérjetek és adatik néktek; keressetek és találtok; zörgessetek és megnyittatik néktek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Mintalah, maka kalian akan menerima. Carilah, maka kalian akan mendapat. Ketuklah, maka pintu akan dibukakan untukmu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pintalah, maka akan diberi kepadamu; carilah, maka kamu akan mendapat; ketuklah pintu, maka pintu akan dibukakan bagimu. |
| Italian | Chiedete e vi sar dato; cercate e troverete; bussate e vi sar aperto; |
| Latvian | Lûdziet, un jums tiks dots, meklçjiet, un jûs atradîsiet, klauvçjiet, un jums tiks atvçrts! |
| Manx Gaelic | Yeearree-jee, as yiow shiu: shir-jee, as nee shiu feddyn: cronk-jee, as yiow shiu fosley. |
| Maori | ¶ Inoia, a ka hoatu ki a koutou; rapua, a ka kitea e koutou; patoto, a ka uakina ki a koutou; |
| Norwegian | Bed, så skal eder gis, let, så skal I finne, bank på, så skal det lukkes op for eder! |
| Portuguese | Pedí, e dar-se-vos-á; buscai, e achareis; batei e abrir-se-vos-á. |
| Rumanian | Cereyi, wi vi se va da; cqutayi wi veyi gqsi; bateyi, wi vi se va deschide. |
| Russian | рТПУЙФЕ, Й "БОП 'Х"ЕФ ЧБН; ЙЭЙФЕ, Й ОБК"ЕФЕ; УФХЮЙФЕ, Й ПФЧПТСФ ЧБН; |
| Shuar | ¶ `Yus seakrumin suramsattawai. Eakrumka wainkiattarme. "Winiajai" Tákurmin awaintiamattarme. |
| Spanish | "Pedid, y se os dará. Buscad y hallaréis. Llamad, y se os abrirá. |
| Swahili | "Ombeni, nanyi mtapewa; tafuteni, nanyi mtapata; bisheni, nanyi mtafunguliwa. |
| Swedish | Bedjen, och eder skall varda givet; söken, och I skolen finna; klappen, och för eder skall varda upplåtet. |
| Uma | ¶ "Perapi' -mi hi Alata'ala, nawai' moto-ta mpai'. Pali' kaparaluua-ta hi Alata'ala, tarata moto mpai'. Neo' tabahakai mpopebea wobo', Alata'ala mpobea moto-taka mpai' wobo' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "knock": knockabout, knockabouts, knockdown, knockdowns, knocked, knocker, knockers, knocking, knockoff, knockoffs, knockout, knockouts, knocks, knockwurst, knockwursts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "knock": antiknock. (additional references) | |
Words containing "knock": antiknocks. (additional references) | |
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"Knock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Connock, Enock, kinnockic, klok, knacka, knact, kneck, knickn, knoc, knockd, Knockdhu, Knocke, knook, knowk, Kocak, kock, konak, konk, Krock, nco, Noc, noca, noci, noct, nok, Nokka, nosc, nuck, unock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "knock" (pronounced nÄ"k) |
| 3 | n Ä" k | antiknock, Nock. |
| 2 | -Ä" k | antilock, Bach, Bangkok, bloc, block, Bock, Brock, caulk, chalk, chock, clock, Croc, crock, Doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, interlock, Jock, Loch, lock, Mach, mock, overstock, pock, restock, Roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, stock, undock, unlock, walk, wok. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: conk, konk, nock. | |
-2 letters: con. | |
-3 letters: no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: knocks. | |
+2 letters: knocked, knocker. | |
+3 letters: kneesock, knockers, knocking, knockoff, knockout. | |
+4 letters: antiknock, crookneck, kneesocks, knockdown, knockoffs, knockouts. | |
+5 letters: antiknocks, crooknecks, kickboxing, knockabout, knockdowns, knockwurst, outkicking. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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