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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knock
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock on/at the door (=hit it with your hand to make someone open it)
▪ Who's that knocking at the door?
knock/beat sb unconscious
▪ Levin was knocked unconscious by the impact.
knocked out cold (=hit on the head so that you became unconscious)
▪ You were knocked out cold.
knock/throw sb off balance
▪ The blow was hard enough to knock him off balance.
pull down/knock down/tear down a building
▪ All the medieval buildings were torn down.
put/knock sb out of a competition (=defeat someone so that they are no longer in a competition)
▪ They put us out of the competition in the semi-final last year.
throw/knock/push etc sb off-balance
▪ The sudden movement of the ship knocked them both off balance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
▪ I've hinted at it, but never liked to tell him that I used to get knocked about.
▪ Some of the canals we crossed smelled like open sewers, and the odor would just about knock you out.
▪ There's quite a few of them knocking about.
▪ Being knocked about to a certain extent.
▪ Some were trampled by horses and others knocked about by staffs and swords in the fight at Worcester.
▪ But each and every time my body temperature shoots up, my gut twists, my heart knocks about in my chest.
▪ Most of the people I knock about with are in the union.
▪ I do not enjoy being knocked about by scoffing and mocking.
around
▪ He just knocked around with some very funny looking women.
▪ The apartment never seemed more cramped with just the two of us knocking around in it.
▪ Peter: On Saturday I knock around with me mates.
▪ And after knocking around for a decade he came to rest at his alma mater.
▪ It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet.
▪ Like Jitters, she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat.
▪ Each new copy must be made from raw materials, smaller building blocks knocking around.
▪ Because of all the rubber stuff, Malcolm had magazines like Rubber Monthly knocking around.
back
▪ I saw her knock back a few glasses but never saw her tight!
▪ He responded with courage and knocked back the load of special interests trying to weaken efforts to improve air quality.
▪ Lightning split the night and the daemon was knocked back.
▪ A small dapper gentleman two seats away knocked back a shot of something and exhaled an invisible sweet cloud.
▪ She was out of control, she said, knocking back up to ten cups of coffee a day.
▪ He's spending an afternoon in Barcelona, knocking back beer on some one else's account.
▪ There were about a dozen writers in hospitality, most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff.
down
▪ Fifteen seconds earlier he had been knocked down and lay on the canvas as the referee counted just short of a knockout.
▪ To be knocked down by the boom of a sailing vessel was so banal as to be embarrassing.
▪ The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
▪ Boston was also a classic example of the media's ability to build up and then knock down.
▪ Read in studio A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager.
▪ Lane was running when he was knocked down, and continued to churn forward.
▪ He was knocked down by a car when he was 4.
▪ If the round could knock down the target, it could knock down a man.
off
▪ I have always been able to knock off twenty years.
▪ Everyone else appeared to have some sort of credit card that knocked off up to 25 percent.
▪ She could have knocked off a thousand words on the pocket combs alone.
▪ So this is knocked off her £112.55 leaving her with £99.90 to pay.
▪ Bluechel, unharmed, fled the scene, a bullet knocking off his cap as he ran.
▪ Against Kent he opened with Jack Hobbs, and the pair knocked off the 96 required to win in 32 minutes.
▪ They need to figure out how to make a reasonable profit and knock off the greed.
out
▪ Not only do you have to find it, but you may have to knock out the retaining plug.
▪ Moorer lost the crown when he was knocked out by George Foreman.
▪ The Anarak Adventure state that if you are not completely knocked out by the finished product there will be no charge!!
▪ There was a three-inch gash in his head, which suggested at first that he had been knocked out and drowned.
▪ However, the fail out alarm had been knocked out and the intercom was working badly.
▪ When you hit them, you knock out their spindly legs and their big bodies come flying right through your windshield.
▪ He was knocked out in a brawl at a Hollywood restaurant, suffering a broken jaw and three shattered teeth.
▪ People come to see people get knocked out.
over
▪ If they're knocked over, the paraffin leaks and ignites, causing what firefighters say are some of the worst fires.
▪ The flag-staff was repeatedly knocked over, and finally a boarding-pike was used.
▪ Last night's jam-jars, with their stubs of candle, had been knocked over.
▪ All the crews of the after guns were knocked over by the concussion, and bled from the nose or ears.
▪ An argument broke out in the crowded pub after some drink was knocked over and Mr Brown tried to defuse the situation.
▪ It then truly or falsely spun through the air and knocked over all the pins your luck and skill permitted.
▪ My glass was amongst those that had been knocked over, and as a result it was now empty.
▪ A stove of red-hot coals had been knocked over.
together
▪ The skeleton of a Ferris wheel loomed; shooting galleries and hoopla stalls were being knocked together.
▪ It brings to mind the ludicrous feud between Liam Gallagher and Robbie Williams, who need their silly heads knocking together.
▪ This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
▪ He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
▪ She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
knees knocking (together)
▪ Years later, Ogwen apprenticeship having been served, we began to aspire to their routes, knees knocking at our effrontery.
knock/beat sb/sth into a cocked hat
▪ Cavalli had no difficulty knocking the work of other composers into a cocked hat.
knock/blow sb's socks off
▪ And yet the correlations just knock my socks off...
▪ So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.
▪ The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.
▪ This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.
knock/hit sb for six
▪ He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six.
knock/lick/get sb/sth into shape
▪ A lot of similar stories, people just wanting to get back into shape, get their games together.
▪ And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists.
▪ His replacement, former sales manager Nils Sontag, never had enough time to lick the company into shape.
▪ Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.
▪ Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
▪ The first two hours knock us into shape, however, as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri.
▪ With the BaByliss BodyToner Plus you can treat yourself to wonderful massages and get back into shape at the same time.
knock/lift etc sb off their feet
knock/throw sb for a loop
▪ His next question totally knocked me for a loop. He said, "So what makes you think you're good enough to get into law school?"
▪ His response really threw me for a loop.
▪ Joanna totally threw me for a loop.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 'Mattie?' called Jerry, knocking on the door.
▪ Cheap gasoline will make your engine knock.
▪ Critics knocked his latest film for its portrayal of women.
▪ Hey, don't knock it! It's the only suit I've got!
▪ I waited a moment, then knocked again.
▪ It's hard to knock Gordon because he always works so hard.
▪ Lula knocked at the back door and he appeared, dressed in pyjamas.
▪ One of the movers knocked the sofa against a doorway.
▪ She knocked me with her elbow as she passed.
▪ She turned and ran, knocking into bystanders as she went.
▪ Some movie reviewers seem to knock every picture they see.
▪ The heavy video camera knocked against his hip as he walked.
▪ Would you mind knocking before you come in?
▪ You should knock before you come in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After I had rung several more times and knocked at the door, I heard hesitant footsteps.
▪ And he pushed Philip, knocking the polythene bag of grain out of his hand.
▪ But former boxing world champion Barry McGuigan was knocked out of the event with a blown engine on his Vauxhall Nova.
▪ Even knock out a mouthful of teeth?
▪ I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying.
▪ It was a pity perhaps that the car had not knocked her down.
▪ Yet no one who knew the man disputes that Robey might well have knocked down the self-proclaimed king of rock & roll.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hard
▪ He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.
▪ Sometimes a hard knock in the head can clear out the cobwebs.
▪ He was a man of course, accustomed to hard knocks, not exactly cynical, but not dreamy-eyed.
■ VERB
answer
▪ Wiping her floury hands, Mrs Beavis answered the knock.
▪ Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
▪ I thought you'd heard me answer his knock on the door as soon as you went in there.
▪ Amazed residents who answered his frantic knock on the door threw water over him.
▪ It might be a burst of bullets through the door as I answer their knock.
hear
▪ After a while, he heard a tentative knock at the door and looked up.
▪ When he heard the knock, he thought it was Barnabas scratching.
▪ He heard a knock at the door.
▪ It is Monday morning and I hear a knock on the door.
▪ Just then he heard a knock at his door, Randolph wondered who it could be.
▪ And this man ensconced in his warm living room with a fireplace hears a knock at the door.
take
▪ Wallace took a knock and looked like he was ready to come off after about 75 mins.
▪ He took hard knocks at two board meetings in June and August, and carried the discouraging words home to his father.
▪ Micky Hazard took a knock at Newcastle and will have a late check.
▪ Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock.
▪ If that happened, however, confidence would take another knock.
▪ Wilkinson has battled hard and taken a lot of knocks this season.
▪ The blow was so crippling because confidence had already taken quite a few knocks.
▪ To succeed in this sport you be prepared to take the knocks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/knock sb's heads together
▪ He caught hold of the two nearest him and knocked their heads together, kicked two more and grabbed the ringleaders.
▪ She'd just box a few ears, knock a few heads together like she did with the Rattries, and chase them off.
beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
knock/beat sb/sth into a cocked hat
▪ Cavalli had no difficulty knocking the work of other composers into a cocked hat.
knock/blow sb's socks off
▪ And yet the correlations just knock my socks off...
▪ So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.
▪ The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.
▪ This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.
knock/hit sb for six
▪ He'd done it again, she realised in amazement - with just a few choice words he'd knocked her for six.
knock/lick/get sb/sth into shape
▪ A lot of similar stories, people just wanting to get back into shape, get their games together.
▪ And backs off quick, before the long-suffering pimp shows up, and knocks the girl into shape with his jewelled fists.
▪ His replacement, former sales manager Nils Sontag, never had enough time to lick the company into shape.
▪ Lionesses lick their cubs into shape and life.
▪ Nevertheless an heroic effort is being made to lick Expo into shape before Easter Monday.
▪ The first two hours knock us into shape, however, as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri.
▪ With the BaByliss BodyToner Plus you can treat yourself to wonderful massages and get back into shape at the same time.
knock/lift etc sb off their feet
knock/throw sb for a loop
▪ His next question totally knocked me for a loop. He said, "So what makes you think you're good enough to get into law school?"
▪ His response really threw me for a loop.
▪ Joanna totally threw me for a loop.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I had just turned out the lights when I heard a knock at the door.
▪ The only knock against Whitney is his defensive playing.
▪ We were woken by a frantic knocking at the door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And this man ensconced in his warm living room with a fireplace hears a knock at the door.
▪ If that happened, however, confidence would take another knock.
▪ Tatica will have to pound hard with strength she does not have so her knock will be heard.
▪ There's a knock on the door.
▪ There was a knock at the door.
▪ Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
knock

backfire \backfire\, back fire \back fire\

  1. 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.

    1. A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also called a knock or ping.

    2. an explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal combustion engine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knock

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]

knock

mid-14c., from knock (v.). As an engine noise, from 1899.

Wiktionary
knock

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
knock
  1. n. 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
  1. v. 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]

Wikipedia
Knock (play)

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 (short story)

"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

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.