What's the difference between abnormal and knock?

Abnormal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (3) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
  • (4) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (5) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (6) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
  • (7) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
  • (8) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
  • (9) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
  • (10) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (11) Although the longest period required for resolving weakness was three days, the MRI, the CT and the electroencephalogram revealed no significant abnormality.
  • (12) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (13) Muscle wasting in MYD may be explained by these abnormalities as well.
  • (14) Associated renal and other abnormalities were common.
  • (15) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
  • (16) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (17) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
  • (18) It is possible that the IgE that linked abnormally with the propofol had specific binding sites for the phenyl nucleus and the isopropyl groups, which are present in propofol and many other drugs.
  • (19) Of 185 with readable histology, 14.6% were clinically and histologically abnormal; 19.5% were clinically abnormal but histologically normal; and 15.7% were clinically normal and histologically abnormal.
  • (20) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.

Knock


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
  • (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  • (n.) A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
  • (n.) A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
  • (2) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (3) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (4) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
  • (5) One day, out of the blue, there's a knock on the door.
  • (6) At 7.40am Lord Feldman, the Conservative party chairman, knocked on the front door of No 10.
  • (7) Indeed, with the pageantry already knocked off the top of the news by reports from Old Trafford, the very idea of a cohesive coalition programme about anything other than cuts looks that bit harder to sustain.
  • (8) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
  • (9) This part will be knocked down next year; they have already started opposite."
  • (10) I see myself in exactly the same situation as I saw myself yesterday, though obviously with the bitter disappointment of the failure of being knocked out.
  • (11) "There's nothing better than when the Grammys can rock out, and to have these artists all together on one stage, doing a number that, when they presented it to us, knocked us out, is going to turn out to be one of those Grammy moments that people talk about for a long time.
  • (12) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
  • (13) Whether it's voting on the day, knocking on doors, making phone calls or speaking to friends and family, the silent majority should feel confident in speaking up.
  • (14) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
  • (15) We’ve sent out all the boards and there’s still loads of people flooding in, we don’t know what to do.’ It happened in Leeds North West, too – they started the day, they had so many activists that they went: ‘Right, let’s scrap our whole strategy, we’re going to just print off the electoral register instead’ – and rather than focusing on likely Labour voters, which is what you would normally do, they knocked on all the doors on the electoral register – that’s unheard of.” The seat saw a 14% swing to Labour, overturning a Lib Dem majority of almost 3,000 and replacing it with a 4,000 Labour lead.
  • (16) Offers worth £20m and £26m have been flatly rejected by Everton since mid-July, with a third of around £30m also knocked back last week.
  • (17) A protester is knocked back by a police water cannon as riot police advance towards Gezi Park.
  • (18) Chelsea , however, will not be too concerned if this match is added to the long list of games that is used to knock José Mourinho's ploys of conservatism and, ultimately, it is proven to be a valuable result.
  • (19) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
  • (20) On election day, we’ll have 6,000 campaign volunteers knocking on doors.