know 
know (nō)
transitive verb knew, known, know′·ing
- to have a clear perception or understanding of; be sure of or well informed about to know the facts
- to be aware or cognizant of; have perceived or learned to know that one is loved
- to have a firm mental grasp of; have securely in the memory to know the multiplication tables
- to be acquainted or familiar with I knew him well
- to experience she has known both pleasure and pain
- to have understanding of or skill in as a result of study or experience to know music
- to recognize I'd know that face anywhere
- to recognize as distinct; distinguish to know right from wrong
- Archaic to have sexual intercourse with
Etymology: ME knowen < OE cnawan, akin to OHG -cnāhan < IE base *ĝen-, *ĝnō-, to know, apprehend > can, ken, L gnoscere, to know, Gr gignōskein
intransitive verb
- to have knowledge
- to be sure, informed, or aware
in the know
Informal having confidential information
know better
to be aware that one could or should act better or think more correctly
know best
to be the best guide, authority, etc.
know from
☆you know
☆Informal you understand: a phrase used in conversational pauses
know
v.
To possess information
be aware of, be cognizant of, be acquainted with, be informed, be in possession of the facts, have knowledge of, be schooled in, be read in, be learned in, be versed in, be conversant with, be familiar with, appreciate, prize, ken, recognize, be sensible of, know full well, be sure of, have at one's fingertips, be master of, have a grasp of, know by heart, know inside and out, know by rote, remember, be instructed, be awake to, keep up on, have information about, know what's what, know all the answers, have someone's number*, have the jump on*, have down cold*, have the goods on*, be hep to*, know one's stuff*, know the score*, know the ropes*. Antonyms
be oblivious of, be ignorant of, misunderstand. To understand
comprehend, apprehend, grasp, see into; see understand 1.To recognize
perceive, discern, distinguish, identify, be familiar with, have the friendship of, acknowledge, be accustomed to, associate with, be acquainted with; see also associate 1.
in the know*
Object
- nothing: These were from the family of Hans Fischer who knew nothing about what became of him.
- anything: A lot of people don't know anything about their history, but it is important to know about your history.
- someone: But you knew someone would come along and beat him.
- something: Do the FBI know something the entire world's media organizations don't?
- answer: Excel: Hiding Cell Contents There are times when you need to know the answer but don't want anyone else to see it.
- everything: I know well enough that I do not know everything.
Adjective complement
- more: Mums know more than anyone how quickly their children grow up.
- less: They knew even less about the National Socialist German Workers Party or its political program.
- little: He appeared to know very little about Mr Gordon, and had taken up no references.
- good: Prepare a range of poems, then pick the question that lets you write on those you know best.
- full: In fact, Stalin knew full well that the Poles would not be willing to see Nazi control of Poland replaced by Soviet control.
Modifying Another Word
- well: Here is produced the well known " Pease's West " coke.
Used with why or when
- what: How will I know what is expected of me?
- where: We simply do not yet know where most of our bats go in winter!
- who: Now I educate everyone I know who has a dog.
- why: He called me Badger, I never knew why.
- which: I know which way I think looks like being the best approach.
- when: Note that there is a lot of " give " here, and we let clients know when rush rates apply.
Infinitive complement
- have: King Henry III is known to have donated new choir stalls to the abbey in 1232 and other timber in 1236.
Preposition: in
- parlance: This willingness to wait for a consensus to emerge is known in theological parlance as ' the process of reception ' .
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'öthat is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
As I know more of mankind I expect less ofthem, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
There is only one constant preoccupation: I have throughout been anxious to discover how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
Sapere aude, havethe couragetoknow: that isthemotto of enlightenment.
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
If you don't know where you are, you're nowhere.
Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say
In a civil war, a general must knowöand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practiceöhe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.
Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.
We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
How did they know?
Ich kenne mich auch nicht und Gott soll michauch davor behuten. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Ich kenn es wohl, dein Missgeschick: Verfehltes Leben, verfehlte Liebe! I know it well, your mishap: A missed life, a missed love!
Whether Iwas inmy bodyoroutof my bodyas Iwroteit I know not.God knows.
The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent MrToad.
In your heart, you know I'm right.
You know more than you think you do.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
Il n'existe que trois e" tres respectables: le pre" tre, le guerrier, le poe' te. Savoir, tuer et cre¤ er. There are only three respectable beings: priest, warrior, poet. To know, to kill and to create.
It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.
The leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.
Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.
I pulled to the side of the street and got out my book of road maps.But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
She had reached an age where she thought she could not stand to knowany moreshe pushed any discovery aside with embarassment.
Half of them don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and the other half don't know they don't know.
The people know what the land knows.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.
Ich kann nur berichten, was ich weiÞ. I can only report on what I know.
The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.
The great thing isto last and get your workdone, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much after.
Science has 'explained'nothing: the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until Iwent intothesanctuaryof God; thenunderstood I their end.
We don't know where that money came from and we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went.
I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
Winds of the World, give answer! Theyare whimpering to and froö And what should they know of England who only England know?ö The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?
I saw that lack of love contaminates, You know I know you know I know you know.
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