acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
antiknock | (noun) any of various compounds that are added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking | - |
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banknote | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, greenback, note |
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bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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knob | (noun) a round handle | - |
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(noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: boss |
(noun) an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger | Synonyms: pommel |
(noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: node, thickening |
knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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knobkerry | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerrie |
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knock | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, rap, whack, whang |
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(noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: roast |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, smash |
(noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knocking |
(noun) a bad experience | - |
knockabout | (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
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knockdown | (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
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knocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: doorknocker, rapper |
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(noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, breast, tit, titty |
(noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, detractor, disparager |
(noun) a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) | - |
(noun) (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person | - |
knocking | (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knock |
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knockoff | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: clone |
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knockout | (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
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(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
knockwurst | (noun) short thick highly seasoned sausage | Synonyms: knackwurst |
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knoll | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, mound |
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knot | (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, greyback |
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(noun) any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object | - |
(noun) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design | Synonyms: burl, slub |
(noun) a tight cluster of people or things | - |
(noun) something twisted and tight and swollen | Synonyms: gnarl |
(noun) a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged | - |
(noun) (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour | - |
knotgrass | (noun) low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | Synonyms: Paspalum distichum |
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knothole | (noun) a hole in a board where a knot came out | - |
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knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
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knout | (noun) a whip with a lash of leather thongs twisted with wire; used for flogging prisoners | - |
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know | (noun) the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people | - |
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knower | (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: apprehender |
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knowing | (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
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knowingness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognisance, cognizance, consciousness |
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(noun) shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge | - |
knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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pyknosis | (noun) a degenerative state of the cell nucleus | Synonyms: pycnosis |
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slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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stumpknocker | (noun) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish | Synonyms: Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish |
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topknot | (noun) showy crest or knot of hair or feathers | - |
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(noun) headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair | - |
unknowing | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness |
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unknowingness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unawareness |
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(noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing |
unknown | (noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
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(noun) an unknown and unexplored region | Synonyms: terra incognita, unknown region |
(noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, stranger |