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Knock   /nɑk/   Listen
Knock

verb
(past & past part. knocked; pres. part. knocking)
1.
Deliver a sharp blow or push :.  Synonym: strike hard.
2.
Rap with the knuckles.
3.
Knock against with force or violence.  Synonym: bump.
4.
Make light, repeated taps on a surface.  Synonyms: pink, rap, tap.
5.
Sound like a car engine that is firing too early.  Synonyms: ping, pink.  "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded"
6.
Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws.  Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart.  "Don't knock the food--it's free"
noun
1.
The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing).  Synonym: knocking.
2.
Negative criticism.  Synonym: roast.
3.
A vigorous blow.  Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash.  "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"
4.
A bad experience.
5.
The act of hitting vigorously.  Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang.



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"Knock" Quotes from Famous Books



... hall, to discover, if they could, the motive for Paredes's stealthy presence there. Bobby accepted greedily this opportunity to find Katherine, to learn from her, undisturbed, what had happened in the house that morning, the meaning, perhaps, of her despairing gesture. When, in response to his knock, she opened her door and stepped into the corridor he guessed her despair had been an expression of the increased strain, of her helplessness in face of Robinson's ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
 
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... the deer with hound and horn!' Hawkins, p. 12. Whitefield, writing of a few years later, says:—'At this time Satan used to terrify me much, and threatened to punish me if I discovered his wiles. It being my duty, as servitor, in my turn to knock at the gentlemen's rooms by ten at night, to see who were in their rooms, I thought the devil would appear to me every stair I went ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
 
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... this good family gathered about the table to eat their small loaf of bread, while the father read aloud from the Bible. Just as they sat down there came a knock on the window, ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
 
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... him without shuddering, and I endeavoured to forget him. One evening, about ten days after the chapel scene, sitting alone in my apartment, I was attracted by a slight movement on the stairs. A moment afterwards there was a knock at my door. The door opened, and Mr Clayton himself walked into the room. I trembled instantly from head to foot. The minister had a serious countenance, and was very placid. He took a chair, and I waited ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
 
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... to know? I make no confessions; and if you ever tell out of doors what I have said here, I'll knock your teeth down your throat, if I ...
— The Runaway - The Adventures of Rodney Roverton • Unknown
 
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