(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.
Mow
Definition:
(n.) A wry face.
(v. i.) To make mouths.
(n.) Same as Mew, a gull.
(pres. sing.) of Mow
(v.) May; can.
(v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
(v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
(v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
(v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
(n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
(n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
(v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
Example Sentences:
(1) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(2) Mowing was very effective when it was done at a height of 2 cm from the soil.
(3) Four years ago, a poll of DC energy insiders found that 91% thought Transcanada (the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline) would quickly and easily acquire the permit for the pipeline; the company was so confident that they mowed the strip they were about to dig up across the centre of the country.
(4) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
(5) --predators-placing without previous grass-mowing is effective only on banks of rivers.
(6) Highest was the activity of lucerne from the first mowing, gradually decreasing in each of the following mowings.
(7) "They're burning billions of dollars to catch a guy who wants to mow somebody's lawn."
(8) We believe that the increased nasal and ocular symptoms coincident with lawn mowing are allergic phenomena significantly associated with skin test sensitivity and specific IgE antibodies to grass pollens but not with sensitivity or specific IgE to molds or grass-leaf extract.
(9) When it's all done, you look back and you're like: 'Oh look, I mowed a whole lawn.
(10) Variations were likewise established in the content of genestein and cumestrol in dependence on the mowing itself and the yield.
(11) Westminster map The fact is that the attacker in his attempt to spread terror, was reduced to mowing down pedestrians on a crowded Westminster Bridge to tragically fatal effect.
(12) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
(13) Ecological Impacts "Minimal" George said the overall ecological impact of mowing the grass and removing the beetles would likely be "minimal."
(14) Positive skin tests to grasses, trees, and weed pollens were more frequent in those patients with symptoms exacerbated by lawn mowing (p less than 0.03).
(15) Not the drunk neighbour who called us little black bastards, even when we mowed his lawn for him.
(16) A number of individuals with perennial or seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis state that their symptoms may suddenly worsen on exposure to lawn mowing.
(17) The spiel for Jeff Allen’s book, Get Laid Or Die Trying , entices the reader by promising to teach them tactics for: “Deflecting last-minute resistance with a single word” and “Convincing a girl you just met that before you fuck her, she must mow your lawn” and he gets around his home of San Francisco in a vehicle he’s nicknamed a “rape van” .
(18) 6.24am GMT Third set: Dimitrov* 5-4 Nadal Dimitrov positively mows through the next game to make it 5-4!
(19) Graham, the Fish and Wildlife biologist, compared the mowing to the hay harvesting that regularly takes place in the region's ranches.
(20) All samples demonstrated that genestein was present in the first and fourth mowing, while the content of cumestrol varied within a wide range showing no markedly expressed correlations.