Definition of Knock

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Definition of Knock

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

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

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

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
Hillary Clinton

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader

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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