What's the difference between dunt and knock?

Dunt


Definition:

  • (n.) A blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tweet of the week The redoubtable Ian Dunt, the editor of politics.co.uk, on David Davis: Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) Tory MP says Europe need us more than we need them, on tariffs.
  • (2) May 30, 2015 Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk , responding to the letter, tweeted: “Please tell me that Labour letter is a hoax.
  • (3) Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) Please tell me that Labour letter is a hoax.

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.