What does know mean

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know

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

know

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a knowing smile (=when you know something secret)

▪ She wanted to smack him for his knowing smile.

a knowing wink

▪ ‘You look tired,’ he said with a knowing wink.

be known to exist

▪ Seven copies of the original book are still known to exist.

best known

▪ He’s perhaps best known for his role in ‘Midnight Cowboy’.

better known

▪ Potter is better known for his TV work.

collectively known as

▪ Rain, snow, and hail are collectively known as precipitation.

curious to know/see/hear etc

▪ Mandy was curious to know what happened.

demand to know/see/have etc sth

▪ I demand to know what’s going on.

do/if you know/see what I mean?spoken (= used to check that someone understands you)

▪ I want to buy her something really special, if you know what I mean.

▪ We’re still married but living apart in the same house, if you see what I mean.

don’t know what came over (=I do not know why I behaved in that way)

▪ I’m sorry about that – I don’t know what came over me .

for reasons best known to sb (=used when you do not understand someone’s behaviour)

▪ For reasons best known to herself, she decided to sell the house.

formerly known as

▪ Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands

generally regarded/accepted/known etc

▪ The plants are generally regarded as weeds.

▪ a generally accepted view

have/know sb’s address

▪ Do you know Helen’s address?

▪ No one seems to have his address.

I know what you mean (=used to say you understand and have had the same experience)

▪ ‘I didn’t really like him.’ 'I know what you mean, I didn’t get on with him either .

interested to hear/know/see etc

▪ I’d be very interested to hear your opinion.

internationally famous/recognized/known etc

▪ an internationally famous sculptor

intrigued to know/learn etc

▪ She was intrigued to know what he planned to do next.

it is comforting to think/have/know etc

▪ It’s comforting to know I can call my parents any time.

it is hard to believe/imagine/see/know etc

▪ It was hard to see what else we could have done.

▪ It’s hard to believe that anyone would say something like that.

it is interesting to see/know etc

▪ It will be interesting to see what happens when he gets a bit older.

It may interest...to know that

▪ It may interest you to know that a number of scholarships are available.

it surprises sb to see/find/know etc

▪ It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things.

knew what...hit (=realized what had happened)

▪ He was gone before they knew what had hit them .

know a language

▪ He had lived in Japan, but did not know the language.

know a secret (=about someone else)

▪ You can tell Tom that I know his secret.

know damn well

▪ You know damn well what I’m talking about.

know for a fact (=used to say that something is definitely true)

▪ I know for a fact that she is older than me.

know nothing about

▪ We know nothing about her family.

know precisely

▪ It is difficult to know precisely how much impact the changes will have.

know sb by name (=know their name)

▪ The headteacher knew all the children by name.

know sb's strengths

▪ It's important to know your strengths as well as your weaknesses.

know sb’s identity

▪ He wanted to know the identity of his real father.

know sb’s name

▪ His first name is Tom, but I don’t know his last name.

know the answer

▪ Put up your hand if you know the answer.

know the difference (=know how two things are different)

▪ If you don’t know the difference between two words, your dictionary can help.

know the meaning

▪ Do you know the meaning of the word ‘paraphrase’?

know the truth

▪ At last I knew the truth about my father’s death.

know the way

▪ Do you know the way to Birkleigh?

know/learn from experience

▪ Janet knew from experience that love doesn't always last.

known to man

▪ This is one of the worst diseases known to man.

know...personally

▪ I don’t know her personally, but I like her work.

know/realize the extent of sth

▪ We do not yet know the extent of the damage.

know/recognize limitations (=know what your qualities or abilities will allow you to do)

▪ Know your limitations, and don't exercise too hard or you'll get injured.

knows the ropes

▪ He works repairing streets, and knows the ropes when it comes to safety.

little known/understood etc (=not known about by many people)

▪ a little known corner of the world

no known cure

▪ At present is there is no known cure for this virus.

popularly known as

▪ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is popularly known as the Mormon Church.

sb is old enough to know better (=used when you think someone should behave more sensibly)

▪ He’s old enough to know better, but he went and did it anyway!

sb/sth has never been known to do sth (=used to say that something is strange because it has never happened before)

▪ Max had never been known to leave home without telling anyone.

There’s no knowing

▪ There’s no knowing what this lunatic will do next.

variously described as/known as/called etc sth

▪ the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

best

▪ He was best known for rebuilding the Milagres Chapel in Machico.

▪ But she is best known as one of the Sumerian demons of storm and night.

▪ And in most cases, mum and dad do know best.

▪ For reasons best known to them, they offered the case to me.

▪ Until last year, she was known best as the less successful sister of Margaret Drabble.

▪ Maybe Jack knew best, after all.

▪ Some one here once commented that she gives the impression she always seems to know best.

▪ Which, of course, is how the play is best known.

better

▪ She should have known better than to raise that kind of topic.

▪ If their pediatrician is telling them to wait, that their child will outgrow it, the parents know better.

▪ But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on.

▪ But La Paca was better known for her claim to a higher, unearthly power.

▪ But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would.

▪ A man is much better known through painting than through photography.

exactly

▪ We don't know exactly what, that's true.

▪ Humans know exactly what is going to happen but they can not resist.

▪ The Ghosts don't know exactly what is beyond the doors.

▪ There are indications that at least the local psychiatric community knew exactly what was going on, and did nothing.

▪ Now we know exactly what she means.

▪ I still do not know exactly what kind of place Lehrte was.

▪ Come to think of it, I never know exactly how much I really feel for him.

▪ I know exactly what it means.

how

▪ He could not know how his words had affected her.

▪ Teaching history meant above all knowing how to narrate it.

▪ If he compiled this piece of information himself we have the right to know how he did it.

▪ The guy does know how to blend into the woodwork.

▪ The seamen could not see us and did not know how many men they were fighting.

▪ In the end, I think, they did not know how to riot.

▪ But they know how to party.

▪ The Fall River Line knew how to equip their ships.

never

▪ I will never know how I got through that day.

▪ He never knew himself to mistake it.

▪ I never knew it was like that.

▪ Speaking of taking stock advice from Warren Buffett or anybody else, remember that you never know when that person sells.

▪ You never knew my master, the Lord Godolphin, and I never knew yours.

▪ The whole idea is that Morrissey never knows a thing.

▪ The point was that one would never know, now.

▪ I never knew this until he said it, but I suppose he saw some of my performances and caught the bug.

well

▪ Do you know how well known she is?

▪ And there was the great Lord Byron, a powerful name, a man well known to espouse the cause of freedom.

▪ The play is well known to scholars and its authorship is still very much in doubt.

▪ We will visit the Sforza-Castle, the magnificent gothic Cathedral and the well known La Scala opera house.

▪ Its element is mind, and its place, well known, is a little above and between the brows.

▪ The details are not well known, nor is the general picture clear.

▪ I personally was born into a poor family and know well the rigors and hardship that accompany genuine need.

where

▪ I knew where to look too.

▪ I even knew where we would sit down for half a day.

▪ And he didn't know where to find her to let her know.

▪ My brother and his wife had lived through so much they hardly knew where to begin to tell their story.

▪ If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction.

▪ For this reason, you should know where things go wrong.

▪ So who would know where Lily's dippy daughter was being kept?

▪ The men did not know where Pala bhai was.

why

▪ Don't know why we have to have partners.

▪ Now we know why veteran Celtics guard Dee Brown asked to be traded.

▪ Flora roared, without knowing why, just knowing something was violently the matter.

▪ I don't know why anyone bothers to plant boxwood when this is available.

▪ As taxpayers we are entitled to know why intelligence services failed to spot signs of an end to the Cold War.

▪ You know why you wrote it.

▪ I don't know why he went in there because he wouldn't find any stronger restorative than ginger pop.

▪ The caterpillars do not know why they rock their bodies, much less why they do it in unison.

■ NOUN

answer

▪ I don't know the answer to all these questions.

▪ I quickly found out that knowing the right answer was much easier than selling it.

▪ Perhaps Mr Adams knows he has no answer.

▪ Do you know that the answer to all your questions, all your problems, is actually contained within its glorious covers.

▪ The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this.

▪ I did not know the answer then, and I do not know it now.

▪ If for any reason station staff do not know the answer, call us.

name

▪ But you didn't know my name.

▪ Residents here know the names of other witnesses, too.

▪ Now the usher is a kid I know and his name is Bruce.

▪ Others prefer men willing to be known, at least by name, to the child.

▪ Students know it by different names in different towns: freaking, grinding, jacking, booty dancing, the nasty.

▪ It's no accident that the stunning national museum in Wellington is known by the Maori name of Te Papa.

▪ At least I finally knew what our real name was, and from what stock we sprang.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

know sth backwards and forwards

(not) know the meaning of sth

▪ Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the meaning of fear.

▪ A dictionary is useless unless one already knows the meanings of many words.

▪ For instance, we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being some one who knows the meaning of the word bank.

▪ He had a lot of things representing other things that no one but he knew the meaning of.

▪ Men like Luke Hunter didn't know the meaning of permanence - or fidelity.

▪ Regarding exercises: before attempting to answer a question do make sure you know the meaning of all the words in it!

▪ So I know the meaning of credit.

▪ Some were struggling behind-but they did not really know the meaning of struggling.

▪ Willi didn't know the meaning of restraint, not in any aspect of his life.

God (only) knows

I can't rightly say/don't rightly know

I know the feeling

▪ "She makes me so mad I could scream!" "I know the feeling."

I might have known/guessed etc

▪ All those years I might have known her!

▪ Although I might have known you'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered!

▪ Dear little Papa, as I might have known!

▪ If you'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed.

▪ It was nothing I might have guessed.

▪ Of course, I might have known that you'd have some clever way of dealing with everything, though.

▪ Ooh! I might have known it!

▪ Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.

I never knew (that)

▪ I never knew you played the guitar!

▪ And I never knew he took my advice about Eliot so seriously.

▪ As I once told you, I never knew where we were heading when I first drove out the Anacreonians.

▪ But I never knew from one week to the next if there would be any money.

▪ I sort of dabble my foot in it like it's a puddle. I never knew Marie was married.

▪ I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father.

▪ Those men have to stand that over and over again. I never knew it was like that.

▪ You and your father. I never knew two people more alike.

▪ You said they stole your milk. I never knew what it was that messed him up.

Lord (only) knows

▪ Even Protestants - and the good Lord knows how mistaken they are - have something to hold on to.

▪ I do mean it! Lord knows I read plenty of nonfiction books.

▪ The Lord knows I did my best.

▪ The Lord knows why she hung them where she would see them every time she looked up.

▪ The Lord only knows what will happen in the regular season and playoffs next year.

▪ We need heroes. Lord knows, kids need them today.

▪ When I was a young houseman I - well, enjoyed a hectic love-life. Lord knows how I managed it.

▪ You realize there was a major pile-up? Lord knows how many vehicles - all of them following us, I suspect.

as/so far as I know/I can remember/I can tell/I can see etc

be known for sth

▪ Bully fans are known for being somewhat obsessive.

▪ Many will never be known for many lived and died without a proper name.

▪ Miller is known for her whimsical paintings and sculpture, both emanating from her unique take on the Southwest desert.

▪ Mr Heseltine is known for his hard work and mental and physical stamina.

▪ Paul is known for his discovery of interleukin-4, a primary chemical regulator of the immune system.

▪ The first lady had specifically asked to speak at Glide, which is known for its social activism, church officials said.

▪ The inhabitants are known for being bourgeois, inward- looking, and conservative.

▪ The Pillow, in Massachusetts, was known for its family feeling and sometimes scrappy eclecticism.

better the devil you know (than the devil you don't)

darned if I know

don't know/can't tell etc which is which

feel/know sth in your bones

▪ I know nothing's ever going to happen - I can feel it in my bones.

▪ And he was innocent of murder; she felt it in her bones.

▪ He could feel it in his bones, and he knew he could trust the feeling.

▪ He felt sure in his bones that their man would try something tonight.

▪ I can feel it in my bones.

▪ She could feel it in her bones.

▪ Something was very wrong, she could feel it in her bones, but what was it?

▪ The fog horn started booming, a deep, thrilling vibration that Madame Astarti could feel resonate in her bones.

goodness (only) knows

▪ The last bridge cost $30 million, and goodness knows how much a new one will cost.

▪ At the mercy of wild animals and insects and snakes and goodness knows what horrors!

▪ But goodness knows, Nona had had her say there.

▪ For aficionados those shortcuts are still there - it's still Control+KQX to quit - goodness knows why.

▪ I suppose that ferrets are no more unusual as pets than rats, snakes and goodness only knows what else.

▪ It seems you've survived, goodness knows how, for really it would not matter if you did not.

▪ They took furnishings, china, sofas, televisions and goodness only knows what else.

▪ Though goodness knows why they think they have to do it so early in the morning.

have/know all the answers

▪ Anyone can claim to have all the answers.

▪ But I don't have all the answers.

▪ He was a modest and unassuming man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers.

▪ In the current situation many issues as yet remain unresolved and we do not have all the answers.

▪ We are supposed to have all the answers.

▪ Will that have all the answers?

heaven (only) knows

▪ And heavens knows, once launched it's all too hard to turn back and look again for the missed trace.

▪ He starts a conversation and ends up heaven knows where.

▪ If it isn't, heaven knows who will ride to the rescue of the firm.

▪ Kenyon must see it through or heaven knows what will become of the station.

▪ People live together - Peter and Miranda are Bohemian enough, heaven knows.

▪ People wave from the bank and shout our names; heaven knows who they are!

▪ What effect it will have on the result, heaven only knows.

if (the) truth be known/told

▪ After all, I am not so different from anyone else, if the truth be known.

▪ He could never, if the truth were told, stand against his wife.

▪ He looked lonely, if the truth were told.

▪ I bet they did it worse than us if the truth was known.

▪ I puzzle a lot, if the truth be known.

▪ I suppose if the truth was known, I was narked at being pushed around.

▪ Nearly thirteen and a half if the truth be known.

▪ You'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known, wouldn't you?

if you know what's good for you

▪ If you know what's good for you, you'll do what I tell you.

▪ You'll just keep your mouth shut about this if you know what's good for you!

if you must know

▪ April 14, if you must know.

▪ But I was extremely jealous of him, if you must know.

▪ But if you must know, Mrs. Jewkes was present.

▪ I had a bad dose of influenza, if you must know.

▪ It's my sister Rose's birthday on Sunday, if you must know.

▪ More than enough, if you must know.

it's nice to know (that)

▪ Well, it's nice to know the ad is working.

▪ I know four-wheel drive cars rarely go into the woods, but it's nice to know they can.

know full/perfectly well

▪ I know perfectly well that metastases are not just a characteristic of malignant cells, spreading from organ to organ.

▪ In everyday life we talk about things being good and bad, and we know perfectly well what we mean.

▪ Oh, I glory in inconsistencies, as you know full well.

▪ Ought we to think less of Johnson for agreeing because he knew full well that he could influence Boswell?

▪ She knew perfectly well he didn't trust her.

▪ The public know full well that the Labour party taxes and spends, taxes and spends.

▪ You know perfectly well I can't.

▪ You know perfectly well that women get depressed at - at certain times.

know no bounds

▪ Paul's love for her knew no bounds.

▪ And as you know, greed knows no bounds.

▪ As the men filed into Faneuil Hall, in solid columns, the enthusiasm knew no bounds....

▪ Faith in benign science knew no bounds.

▪ His business enterprise knew no bounds.

▪ It was once again proved that the credulity of trainees knew no bounds.

▪ Only in later centuries, when Constant Drachenfels' daring knew no bounds, did the famed, fabled horrors begin.

▪ Sarah's pride in her daughter knew no bounds.

know sth backwards

know sth inside out

▪ As he was a thoroughly professional journalist, he already knew the media inside out.

▪ He stutters, but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out.

▪ I know this one Inside out!

▪ Of course, if everyone knew their partners inside out, there's a good chance no-one would ever plight their troth.

▪ Start off by adding every email address you know, and click on all the options until you know it inside out.

▪ They know their stuff inside out, but most importantly they also look like they are having a whale of a time.

know the score

▪ And I didn't break any hearts - they all knew the score.

▪ Just so you know the score, Walt.

▪ Like music, the better one knows the score, the greater the delight and reward one gains from reading it.

▪ No great discoveries, but at least he knew the score.

▪ Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score.

▪ Valdez knew the score -- the deal was indefensible.

▪ You know the score, give the urban kids a slice of country life.

know the way to sb's heart

▪ What a great meal! You certainly know the way to a man's heart!

know which side your bread is buttered on

know your limits

▪ I know my limits, and I'm not a great runner.

▪ Ford says she may be good at her job, but she knows her limits.

▪ The Profitboss does so much and no more, knowing his limits.

▪ These lunchtime drinkers know their limits, or at least most of them do.

know/find out/learn etc sth to your cost

little did sb know/realize/think etc

▪ But little did he know at the time, how soon he'd need it.

not know someone from Adam

not know your arse from your elbow

not know your own strength

not know/care beans (about sb/sth)

not know/mean diddly

▪ Bradley doesn't know diddly about running his own business.

otherwise known as

▪ Global warming is otherwise known as the greenhouse effect.

▪ Area 17, for example, is otherwise known as the primary visual area.

▪ During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.

▪ It is otherwise known as delegated legislation.

▪ It was a control on monetary hanky-panky, otherwise known as inflation.

▪ The best explanation for this is the so-called rebound effect, otherwise known as acute tolerance.

the first I knew/heard

▪ And yet these hills are the first I knew and loved.

▪ It was the first I knew about it.

the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing

the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

the next thing I/she etc knew

▪ And the next thing I knew, I was here.

▪ But the next thing she knew she was crying.

▪ He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent.

▪ I fell asleep, and the next thing I knew, some one was waking me.

▪ I had hardly dated, and the next thing I knew I was getting married.

▪ I must have fallen asleep, for the next thing I knew I was woken by the ringing of the telephone.

▪ I started to run and the next thing I knew I was lying on the kitchen table.

well-known/little-known/lesser-known

with/knowing sb's luck

▪ Knowing his luck, he'll get hit with a golf ball or something.

you don't know when you're well-off

you never know

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Are you going home for Christmas?" "I don't know yet."

▪ "Do you know Boston at all?" "Yes, I went to college there."

▪ Although we worked for him for years, Cathy was the only one who knew him well.

▪ As soon as the phone rang, we knew something terrible must have happened.

▪ Ask Eric about your brakes - he knows cars.

▪ Carol doesn't know the city very well yet.

▪ Do you know any Polish?

▪ Do you know anyone who can repair a boiler?

▪ Do you know that Hitchcock movie about a man who is being chased?

▪ Do you know where Andy is?

▪ Do you two know each other?

▪ Everyone knew immediately how serious the situation was.

▪ Everyone who knew her described her as a kind, generous person.

▪ He knew a lot about baseball, and about how to pick great players.

▪ How much do you know about the Moore case?

▪ I knew he was ill, but I didn't realize he had cancer.

▪ I asked several people where Paul was, but no one knew.

▪ I didn't know any of the songs they were singing.

▪ I don't know anything about football.

▪ I just know your mother will love this necklace.

II.noun

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

know sth backwards and forwards

(not) know the meaning of sth

▪ Mike Hardware was the kind of private eye who didn't know the meaning of fear.

▪ A dictionary is useless unless one already knows the meanings of many words.

▪ For instance, we assume he would satisfy our behavioural criteria for being some one who knows the meaning of the word bank.

▪ He had a lot of things representing other things that no one but he knew the meaning of.

▪ Men like Luke Hunter didn't know the meaning of permanence - or fidelity.

▪ Regarding exercises: before attempting to answer a question do make sure you know the meaning of all the words in it!

▪ So I know the meaning of credit.

▪ Some were struggling behind-but they did not really know the meaning of struggling.

▪ Willi didn't know the meaning of restraint, not in any aspect of his life.

God (only) knows

I (only) wish I knew

▪ And I wish I knew why.

▪ But being so weak seems wrong now too. I wish I knew judo.

▪ Don't ask me what I do want. I wish I knew.

▪ He was a sad person underneath. I wish I knew what he was so sad about.

▪ I do know that it was because of an argument that he left. I wish I knew more.

▪ I won't listen to you any more. I wish I knew what time it was.

▪ Men clustered and chattered lively in groups. I wished I knew how to smoke.

▪ Very grand. I wish I knew where it is now.

I can't rightly say/don't rightly know

I just wanted to say/know etc

▪ I asked them, and this is what they told me. I just wanted to know did you know any more.

▪ In the ambulance, I just wanted to know the damage.

▪ The truth of it was, as miserable as things were, I just wanted to say I had been there.

I know (just/exactly) how you feel

▪ I have a sudden urge to touch her, to hold her, to tell her I know how she feels.

▪ I knew how he felt about me -- a short blind boy who hated leather basketballs.

▪ I know how he feels about me!

▪ I know how you feel about it ... You would rather wait - wait till we're married.

▪ I know how you feel, Doyle thought.

▪ I know how you feel, they're all or nothing.

▪ You ran a decent campaign, John, and I know how it feels to lose.