(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.
Knockdown
Definition:
(n.) A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.
(a.) Of force sufficient to fell or completely overthrow; as, a knockdown blow; a knockdown argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequent movement off treated papers was a step in the process leading to knockdown.
(2) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(3) Charging in at the far post, Touré was a yard out as he applied the final touch from Negredo's knockdown.
(4) Knockdown was more marked with rates in excess of 90% and 65% being recorded for respectively 45 and 75 days after treatment.
(5) 11.57am BST Government warned: no knockdown sale of RBS Pat McFadden, a Labour MP who serves on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, issues a clear warning shot to Sajid Javid and the government over RBS.
(6) The combatants, well aware of each other’s strengths, were too cagey for that and, but for two knockdowns in the third, it was a contest that never properly took off.
(7) He says the Chelsea FC owner took advantage of his political difficulties with Vladimir Putin, forcing him to sell his interests in Russian oil company Sibneft at a knockdown price.
(8) The privatisation agency is facing a trade off between doing something that is fair and open and following judicial procedures, or something that is going to deliver needed cash.” He fears Greece could be heading down the path taken by Russia in the 1990s, when valuable state assets were sold at knockdown prices to raise urgently-needed cash, creating a new oligarch class in the process.
(9) It was all: two metres tall, powerful, in the middle, knockdowns, second balls, rebounds … but now I see Arsenal and Villarreal and they play like us.
(10) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(11) Moments later Chris Smalling struck a knockdown from Marouane Fellaini – another replacement – at Hart and he saved well.
(12) First, the striker crashed home a 31st-minute finish from a Marouane Fellaini knockdown.
(13) Both candidate adulticides, Esbiothrin and Bioresmethrin, exhibited quick knockdown 1-h posttreatment.
(14) Both mortality and knockdown of exposed flies was demonstrated.
(15) "Clearly the BBC does not want to find itself in a knockdown argument with the LSE, universities or the British Academy," said Patten.
(16) At a special meeting convened at Bear's 45-floor octagonal midtown office tower, investors nodded through a sale of the cash-strapped company to its rival JP Morgan at a knockdown price of about $1.4bn (£700m).
(17) The intervention comes as the Corbyn campaign reveals that a Labour government led by the MP for Islington North would reserve the right to renationalise Royal Bank of Scotland and other public assets, “with either no compensation or with any undervaluation deducted from any compensation for renationalisation” if they are sold at a knockdown price over the next five years.
(18) So why doesn't the Taxpayers' Alliance attack the wasted money spent on building council housing, only for the rent that pays for it to be lost when the asset is sold at a knockdown price?
(19) Eventually Murdoch offered up his stake in DirecTV at a knockdown price to get rid of his rival's disruptive influence.
(20) Typical of their shortcomings at the back was Sunderland's second goal, in which the serially disappointing Kolo Touré kicked at thin air in attempting to clear Michael Turner's headed knockdown.