Knock

Pronunciation: nǒk

v. i.

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

[imp. & p. p. Knocked (nǒkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Knocking.]

To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.

- Dryden.

Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

- Matt. vii. 7.

To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.

To knock about
to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter.

To knock up
to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. - W. Irving.

To knock off
to cease, as from work; to desist. - De Quincey.

To knock under
to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; - an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. - Thackeray.

v. t.

To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

When heroes knock their knotty heads together.

- Rowe.

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

Master, knock the door hard.

- Shak.

To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage.

To knock in the head
to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash.

To knock off
a -	To force off by a blow or by beating.
b -	To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter.
c -	To leave off (work, etc.).

To knock out
to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.

To knock up
a -	To arouse by knocking.
b -	To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up.
c -	(Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets. - Petherick.
d -	To make pregnant. Often used in passive, "she got knocked up".

A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

A loud cry or some great knock.

- Holland.

Knock off
See knock off in the vocabulary.

Noun	1.	knock - the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing); "the knocking grew louder" Synonyms: knocking
	2.	knock - negative criticism Synonyms: roast
	3.	knock - a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" Synonyms: bang, bash, smash, belt
	4.	knock - a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
	5.	knock - the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" Synonyms: whang, whack, belt, rap
Verb	1.	knock - deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room" Synonyms: strike hard
	2.	knock - rap with the knuckles; "knock on the door"
	3.	knock - knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" Synonyms: bump
	4.	knock - make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" Synonyms: pink, rap, tap
	5.	knock - 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" Synonyms: ping, pink
	6.	knock - 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" Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart

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