Knock
To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.
To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.
To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.
To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
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Knock Quotations
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad Ali
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Jesus Christ
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Jesus Christ
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knock Translations
knock in Afrikaans is klap
knock in Danish is banke
knock in Dutch is slaan, klappen, kloppen, opvallen
knock in French is buter, frappez, palpiter, frappent, frapper
knock in German is klopfen, Klopfen, Schlag
knock in Italian is battuta, battere, urtare
knock in Portuguese is batidas
knock in Spanish is latir, golpear, topar
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