What's the difference between jowl and knock?

Jowl


Definition:

  • (n.) The cheek; the jaw.
  • (v. t.) To throw, dash, or knock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
  • (2) At the same time, the perioral, jowl, and submandibular regions must be treated by a combination of standard face lifting procedures and augmentation of the bone structures of the face.
  • (3) Each suture, by its location and direction of lift, corrects one of the four nasolabial regions including the jowl.
  • (4) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
  • (5) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
  • (6) Like the diaphragm, heart, tongue and jowl of cattle show higher MH values than those of "normal beef".
  • (7) Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein once claimed he and his fellow bankers were “doing God's work”, and, judging by the way banks and churches sit cheek by jowl, the City seems to take the same view.
  • (8) It is an endless field of tiny wooden and perspex blocks, low-rise courtyards huddled cheek by jowl with a motley jumble of towers, expanding ever outwards in concentric rings.
  • (9) The heart, tongue, jowl, diaphragm and tail as well as shoulder, top round, the longissimus dorsi muscle of slaughtered cattle and the diaphragms of calf were examined with respect to their myoglobin content and beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydrogenase (HADH) activity.
  • (10) Following this detachment, the soft tissues of the cheek, forehead, jowls, nasolabial folds, lateral canthus, and eyebrows can be lifted to reestablish their youthful relationship with the underlying skeleton.
  • (11) The growth of cities meant grand residences and privacy for some; cheek-by-jowl living for others.
  • (12) He appeared to be thoroughly surprised to be standing at the microphone in the blue room at 10.45pm, media cheek by jowl to see the new incumbent.
  • (13) The colours are of humidity, green and yellow, the unrelenting tropical light from the one window picking out the ageing jowled face so recently feared.
  • (14) Though the host city bears ultimate responsibility for human-rights violations, sports governing bodies such as the IOC are also obliged to respect human rights.” The focus has been on the long, bitter battle over the fate of Vila Autódromo, a small community that sat cheek by jowl with the Olympic Park.
  • (15) Approximating Hitch's walrus-like features took four hours in makeup every day: the prosthetic jowls and nose, the balding pate, the trademark underbite, the fat suit.
  • (16) Liverpool 8 lives cheek-by-jowl not only with the sea but with the city-centre shops, where young Mike tried to find work as a window-dresser, and was given a job, only to be told when his boss returned from headquarters: "'I'm sorry, but when you are in the window, you represent the company.'
  • (17) Designer shops and luxury beachside restaurants sit cheek-by-jowl with crammed, tin-roof shantytowns strewn with rubbish and resembling Brazilian favelas.
  • (18) Cy Twombly's paintings are today on view at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London , cheek by jowl with works by the 17th century master Nicolas Poussin, and a stone's throw from paintings by Rubens and Rembrandt.
  • (19) Lymph nodes, spleens, and tonsils from swine infected experimentally with Group E Streptococcus (GES, the causative agent of jowl abscess) were examined grossly and bacteriologically.
  • (20) She invited touring companies such as Cheek by Jowl and the Irish troupe Druid to perform, and added late-night comedy to the mix.

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.