Found 3 items, similar to Knock.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: knock
gemetar, ketokan, menampar, mencela, mengetok, pukulan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: knock
knock
n 1: the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or
bearing);
“the knocking grew louder” [syn:
knocking]
2: negative criticism [syn:
roast]
3: a vigorous blow;
“the sudden knock floored him”;
“he took a
bash right in his face”;
“he got a bang on the head” [syn:
bash,
bang,
smash,
belt]
4: a bad experience;
“the school of hard knocks”
5: the act of hitting vigorously;
“he gave the table a whack”
[syn:
belt,
rap,
whack,
whang]
knock
v 1: deliver a sharp blow or push :
“He knocked the glass clear
across the room” [syn:
strike hard]
2: rap with the knuckles;
“knock on the door”
3: knock against with force or violence;
“My car bumped into
the tree” [syn:
bump]
4: make light, repeated taps on a surface;
“he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently” [syn:
tap,
rap,
pink]
5: 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” [syn:
pink,
ping]
6: 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” [syn:
criticize,
criticise,
pick apart] [ant:
praise]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Knock
Knock
\Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Knocked (n[o^]kt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Knocking.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian,
cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf.
Knack.]
1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against
something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against
another. --Bacon.
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2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
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For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
--Dryden.
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Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you. --Matt. vii.
7.
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3. To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize
habitually or captiously. [Slang, U. S.]
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To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage;
to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.]
“Knocking about
town.” --W. Irving.
To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn
out, as with labor; to give out.
“The horses were
beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe
service.” --De Quincey.
To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist.
To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's
self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from
the practice of knocking under the table with the
knuckles, when conquered.
“Colonel Esmond knocked under
to his fate.” --Thackeray.
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Knock
\Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. t.
1. To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to
knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post;
to knock a lamp off the table.
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When heroes knock their knotty heads together.
--Rowe.
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2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
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Master, knock the door hard. --Shak.
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3. To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to
admiration or applause. [Slang, Eng.]
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4. To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage.
“Don't
knock it if you haven't tried it.”
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To knock in the head, or
To knock on the head, to stun or
kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to
defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash.
[Colloq.] --
To knock off.
(a) To force off by a blow or by beating.
(b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the
counter.
(c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] --
To knock out
, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out
the brains.
To knock up.
(a) To arouse by knocking.
(b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do
more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.]
“The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had
knocked up my followers.” --Petherick.
(c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape
into book form, as printed sheets.
(d) To make pregnant. Often used in passive,
“she got
knocked up”. [vulgar]
Knock
\Knock\, n.
1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
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2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
“ A knock
at the door.” --Longfellow.
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A loud cry or some great knock. --Holland.
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Knock off, See
knock off in the vocabulary.
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