| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| 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 | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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| (noun) any of various compounds that are added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking | - |
| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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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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| foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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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 |
| knobbed | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty |
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| knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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| knobbly | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobby |
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| knobby | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobbly |
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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 | - |
| (verb) find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws | Synonyms: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
| (verb) knock against with force or violence | Synonyms: bump |
| (verb) rap with the knuckles | - |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow or push | Synonyms: strike hard |
| (verb) make light, repeated taps on a surface | Synonyms: pink, rap, tap |
| (verb) sound like a car engine that is firing too early | Synonyms: ping, pink |
| knockabout | (adjective) suitable for rough use | - |
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| (adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: boisterous |
| (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
| knockdown | (adjective) (furniture) easily assembled and dismantled | - |
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| (noun) a blow that knocks the opponent off his feet | - |
| 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 | (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: hard, severe |
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| (noun) a blow that renders the opponent unconscious | Synonyms: kayo, KO |
| (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 | - |
| (verb) tie or fasten into a knot | - |
| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: ravel, tangle |
| (verb) make into knots; make knots out of | - |
| 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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| knotted | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotty |
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| (adjective) tied with a knot | - |
| knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
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| knotty | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
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| (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knotted |
| (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, problematic, problematical, tough |
| (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: snarled, snarly |
| 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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| (verb) be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object | - |
| (verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, cognize |
| (verb) know how to do or perform something | - |
| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, live |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) know the nature or character of | - |
| (verb) be able to distinguish, recognize as being different | - |
| (verb) perceive as familiar | - |
| (verb) have fixed in the mind | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| knowable | (adjective) capable of being known | Synonyms: cognisable, cognizable, cognoscible |
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| knower | (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: apprehender |
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| knowing | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) evidencing the possession of inside information | Synonyms: wise, wise to |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: deliberate, intentional |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowledgeable |
| (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
| knowingly | (adverb) with full knowledge and deliberation | Synonyms: wittingly |
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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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| knowledgeable | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, versed |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowing |
| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| known | (adjective) apprehended with certainty | - |
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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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| pyknotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting pyknosis | Synonyms: pycnotic |
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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 | - |
| topknotted | (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: crested, tufted |
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| unacknowledged | (adjective) not recognized or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) not openly acknowledged | - |
| unbeknown | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
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| (adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknownst |
| unbeknownst | (adjective) (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of | Synonyms: unbeknown |
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| (adverb) without someone's knowledge | Synonyms: unbeknown |
| unknot | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| unknowable | (adjective) not knowable | - |
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| unknowing | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting |
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| (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness |
| unknowingly | (adverb) without knowledge or intention | Synonyms: inadvertently, unwittingly |
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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 |
| unknowledgeable | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unwitting |
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| unknown | (adjective) not known | - |
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| (adjective) being or having an unknown or unnamed source | Synonyms: nameless, unidentified, unnamed |
| (adjective) not famous or acclaimed | Synonyms: obscure, unsung |
| (adjective) not known before | Synonyms: strange |
| (adjective) not known to exist | - |
| (noun) a variable whose values are solutions of an equation | Synonyms: unknown quantity |
| (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 |