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know

/noh/US // noʊ //UK // (nəʊ) //

知道,了解,懂得,知

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    knew, known, know·ing.

    • : to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
    • : to have established or fixed in the mind or memory: to know a poem by heart; Do you know the way to the park from here?
    • : to be cognizant or aware of: I know it.
    • : be acquainted with, as by sight, experience, or report: to know the mayor.
    • : to understand from experience or attainment: to know how to make gingerbread.
    • : to be able to distinguish, as one from another: to know right from wrong.
    • : Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    knew, known, know·ing.

    • : to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
    • : to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.

Phrases

  • know all the answers
  • know a thing or two
  • know beans
  • know better
  • know by heart
  • know by sight
  • know enough to come in out of the rain
  • know from Adam
  • know if one is coming or going
  • know it all
  • know like a book
  • know one's own mind
  • know one's place
  • know one's stuff
  • know one's way around
  • know only too well
  • know the ropes
  • know the score
  • know where one stands
  • know which side of one's bread is buttered
  • before you know it
  • (know) by heart
  • come in out of the rain, know enough to
  • coming or going, know if one's
  • for all (I know)
  • god knows
  • (know) inside out
  • in the know
  • it takes one to know one
  • left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing
  • not know beans
  • not know from Adam
  • not know where to turn
  • not know which way to jump
  • thing or two, know
  • what do you know
  • what have you (who knows what)
  • which is which, know
  • you know

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbunderstand information
Forms: knew, knowing, known
Synonyms

Examples

  • That’s when the self-described “epistemologist” — one who studies the construction of knowledge — betrayed himself as a man who does not think to do a rudimentary Google search on something about which he knows nothing.

  • Click here for all the inspiration and know-how you need to make the most of adventures on the open road.

  • As much as I say I like to be in the know, I also like to be in the know about what I don’t know.

  • I have to highlight that because it’s not easy to play in a position that you know nothing about.

  • With a moderate level of effort and know-how, you can have a canine that is more fun to be around for everyone, including you.

  • I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.

  • They know they will face either a swift backlash or deafening silence.

  • What they say is, ‘We don’t approve of violence, but you know what?

  • No one seems to know who that is—or why they would want to do such a thing.

  • Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.

  • She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.

  • He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.

  • It seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.