Crossword clues for known
known
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Know \Know\ (n[=o]), v. t. [imp. Knew (n[=u]); p. p. Known (n[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing.] [OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cn["a]wan; akin to OHG. chn["a]an (in comp.), Icel. kn["a] to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jn[=a]; fr. the root of E. can, v. i., ken. [root]45. See Ken, Can to be able, and cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble, Note.]
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To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.
O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
--Shak.There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it.
--Dryden.Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
--Longfellow. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.
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To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.
He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
--2 Cor. v. 21.Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
--Matt. vil. 16.And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
--Luke xxiv. 31.To know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
--Shak.At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.
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To have sexual intercourse with. And Adam knew Eve his wife. --Gen. iv.
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Note: Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc.
And I knew that thou hearest me always.
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The monk he instantly knew to be the prior.
--Sir W. Scott.In other hands I have known money do good.
--Dickens.To know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. `` If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.''
--Jer. Taylor.
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Known \Known\, p. p. of Know.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle of know.
Wiktionary
1 identified as a specific type; renowned, famous. 2 research#Verbed, accepted, familiar. n. 1 (lb en algebra) A variable or constant whose value is already determined. 2 Any fact or situation which is known or familiar. v
(past participle of know English)
WordNet
adj. apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal" [ant: unknown]
v. be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" [syn: cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore]
know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"
be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"
have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: experience, live]
accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods" [syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise]
have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"
have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]
know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"
be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"
perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"
See know
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "known".
It had occurred to Jamie a couple of days before, in the vague way that one recognizes a fact unconsciously known for some time, that Tom Christie was in love with his wife.
For millennia, a few select Ildirans had known that the hydrogues might one day return to cause havoc.
An integral part of the court, albeit a minor one, he was, when he failed his duty, confronted by the single most important fact known to all bureaucrats of any nation or epoch: those above were not interested in excuses, only in results.
This country has known few abler or more eminent men than DeWitt Clinton.
Possibly, with the exception of the historic debates two years earlier, between Lincoln and Douglas, the country has known no abler discussion of great questions.
It was true enough, Elizabeth possessed a very small bust, but as his mother was bedridden and had never laid eyes on her, nor David for that matter, Abraham could not imagine how she could have known this.
Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.
A mild analgesic in common use is acetylsalicylic acid, better known by what was originally a trade-name, aspirin.
Mara had secured more prestige for the Acoma than they had known in their long, honourable history.
I have both known that Acorus faces a transition in the next few years, one that will change everything.
The grand houses and hospitality were such as Adams had never known, even if, as a self-respecting New Englander, he thought New Yorkers lacking in decorum.
Nothing written in her own hand would survive--no letters, diaries, or legal papers with her signature--nor any correspondence addressed to her by any of her family, and so, since it is also known that letters were frequently read aloud to her, there is reason to believe that Susanna Boylston Adams was illiterate.
A committee was appointed, the Committee of Five, as it became known, consisting of Jefferson, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin, who had by now returned from his expedition to Canada but was ill and exhausted and rarely seen.
Franklin, who had known Howe in England, introduced Adams and Rutledge.
He and Adams had known each other for years, and Lovell professed only the warmest regard for Adams, as well as for Abigail.