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knorr
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A large merchant ship used in mediaeval Scandinavia
Wikipedia
Knorr (, often anglicized ) is a German food and beverage brand. It is owned by the English- Dutch company Unilever since 2000, when Unilever acquired Best Foods, excluding Japan where it is made under license by Ajinomoto. It produces dehydrated soup mixes and condiments. It was known as Royco in Indonesia, and as Continental in Australia.
Knorr may refer to:
- Knorr (surname)
- Knorr (brand), a brand of foods and beverages, particularly known for dehydrated broth
- Knorr-Bremse, manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles
- R/V Knorr, the ship used to find the wreck of the Titanic
- Knorr Arena, in Heilbronn, Germany
- Knorr, older spelling of Knarr, a type of Viking cargo ship
- Koenigs–Knorr reaction, the substitution reaction of a glycosyl halide with an alcohol to give a glycoside
- Knorr pyrrole synthesis, a widely used chemical reaction that synthesizes substituted pyrroles
- Paal–Knorr synthesis, a reaction that generates either furans, pyrroles, or thiophenes from 1,4-diketones
- Knorr quinoline synthesis, an intramolecular organic reaction converting a β-ketoanilide to a 2-hydroxyquinoline using sulfuric acid
Knorr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brian Knorr (born 1963), football coach
- Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr (1800-1875), German businessman and founder of the company Knorr.
- Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636–1689), Christian Hebraist
- Eduard von Knorr (1840–1920), German admiral
- Fred Knorr (died 1960), American radio executive
- Georg Knorr (1859–1911), engineer and entrepreneur in railroad technology
- Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761) German natural history illustrator from Nürnberg
- Iwan Knorr (1853–1916), German teacher of music
- Johnny Knorr, American musician and big band leader
- Karen Knorr, American photographer
- Karin Knorr Cetina (born 1944), Austrian sociologist
- Ludwig Knorr (1859–1921), German chemist
- Martin J. Knorr (1906–1989), New York politician
- Micah Knorr (born 1975), NFL football player
- Nathan Homer Knorr (1905–1977), third president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
- Randy Knorr (born 1968), American baseball player
- Theresa Knorr (born 1946), American woman who murdered two children
- Wilbur Knorr (1945–1997), American historian of mathematics and a professor
Usage examples of "knorr".
A whale spouted in the distance, and once a basking shark, awakened by the approaching boat, submerged hurriedly and the knorr tossed hi the miniature maelstrom that it caused.
Although there were fur robes in the knorr, she left them until later.
The wind filled it roundly, but the knorr, being able to tack, sailed off upon a course that would keep them also out of sight, but would hi the end bring them to Norway.
Suddenly the knorr was up on it, lifted and tilted sideways in a cascade of boxes and barrels and men sliding from the windward into the leeward scuppers.
Then the wave was gone and the knorr smashed down, landing with a thump on the hard sand and gravel of the bank.
Then the wave was gone and the knorr smashed down, landing with a thump on the hard sand and grave l of the bank.
Nevertheless the mood of the men watching the knorrs out in the bay was unalarmed, even cheerful.
To one side wooden piers ran out far into the shallow water, to enable the broad-hulled knorrs to come in and out with cargo.