Crossword clues for knock
knock
- Disparage - seek admittance
- Thump Kelvin's ugly conk
- Engine sound
- Engine noise
- Find fault with
- Unwanted engine sound
- Criticize, so to speak
- Beef about
- Ring alternative
- Repeated, a kind of joke
- Pound on the door
- Troublesome engine noise
- Skip the doorbell
- Seek an opening?
- Rapper's introduction
- Harbinger of company
- Disparage — seek admittance
- Company indicator?
- Word repeated before "Who's there?"
- Pan
- See 64-Across
- With 54-Down, intro to a joke
- SГ©ance sound
- Wander aimlessly
- Sound eliciting a "Who's there?"
- Negative criticism
- A vigorous blow
- A bad experience
- The act of hitting vigorously
- Sound at a séance
- End a gin game
- Bad-mouth
- Rap on the door
- Criticise return of head man
- Pink slate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
backfire \backfire\, back fire \back fire\
A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"\n\nAt the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off.
[U.S. Senate record, 1834]
mid-14c., from knock (v.). As an engine noise, from 1899.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood 2 An impact. 3 (context figurative English) criticism 4 (context cricket English) a batsman's innings. 5 (context automotive English) preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. 2 (context transitive dated English) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. 3 (context ambitransitive dated English) To bump or impact. 4 (context colloquial English) To denigrate, undervalue. 5 (context soccer English) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
WordNet
n. the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder" [syn: knocking]
negative criticism [syn: roast]
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]
a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: belt, rap, whack, whang]
v. deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room" [syn: strike hard]
rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"
knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" [syn: bump]
make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: tap, rap, pink]
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]
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]
Wikipedia
Knock (French title: Knock ou le Triomphe de la médecine) is a French satire written in 1923 by Jules Romains. The play was presented for the first time in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on December 15, 1923, in a production starring Louis Jouvet.
"Knock", written by Fredric Brown, is a science fiction short story that starts with a short-short story based on the following text of Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, Tripoli or Paris. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell! (Ponkapog Papers, 1904)
Fredric Brown condensed this text to "a sweet little action story that is only two sentences long." Knock then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and build a more complete plot around them.
It was published in the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories.Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections. Website of Locus - The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field. There have been three different radio adaptations ( Dimension X'', X Minus One and Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre). The story was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949
Knock may refer to:
Usage examples of "knock".
I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.
The tornado of wind whistled loudly around us and up into the heavens, almost knocking Adeem off his feet.
Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.
Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?
His tongue probed at the gap where Alacrity had knocked out two of his teeth.
One foot caught Alayne in the belly, so hard it knocked the wind from her.
A club for those media execs who were at the second summer of love, a pretty high-class place for those who want to knock back guarana alcopops and go at it like knives.
Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.
Empire, two men were drinking raw alk and knocking the shots back with homebrew in a portabar not far from a construction site.
Grand Dame Alpha was sitting at her desk in front of the fireplace when Michael knocked on the door and entered her room.
During the night the amado fell out of the worn-out grooves with a crash, knocking down the shoji, which fell on me, and rousing Ito, who rushed into my room half-asleep, with a vague vision of bloodthirsty Ainos in his mind.
Saint returned to his room, ushered by a silent Simeon Monk, he immediately heard a knock on the door beyond which Amity Little had purportedly been sleeping when he had been taken downstairs for his conference in the planning room.
I come up with a scheme to knock over Hermetico, or little Amity gets herself taken slowly apart in S.
Whenever those aboard the cruisers wished amusement, they turned their guns on Ancon and knocked over a few houses.
Then remembering what had befallen him, and his head beating as though it would split asunder, he shut his eyes again, contriving with great effort to keep himself from groaning aloud, and wondering as to what sort of pirates these could be, who would first knock a man in the head so terrible a blow as that which he had suffered, and then take such care to fetch him back to life again, and to make him easy and comfortable.