(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.
Pell
Definition:
(v. t.) To pelt; to knock about.
(n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.
(n.) A roll of parchment; a parchment record.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
(2) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
(3) Next week, when Pell is giving evidence at the royal commission, I look forward to your comments about Catholicism and what our church needs to do to drag itself into the modern world.
(4) Commission chair Justice Peter McClellan says Pell will be required to answer the allegations in a statement.
(5) The president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, also congratulated Pell, saying he was well suited to such an important appointment.
(6) He went on to point to the opportunities that lie ahead for the likes of James Ward-Prowse, Sam Gallagher, Jack Stephens, Jordan Turnbull, Matt Targett and Sam McQueen next term, with Koean having only recruited Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pelle from Dutch football to date.
(7) I would never have condoned or participated in a decision to transfer Ridsdale in the knowledge that he had abused children, and I did not do so.” Pell said he continued to regret the misunderstanding between himself and David Ridsdale and he stood by his previous sworn denial of Ridsdale’s allegations.
(8) Cardinal Pell has shown exceptional and high-profile leadership in the Australian Church and will have an important contribution to make to the universal Church in this area of finance.” News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch lauded the announcement on Twitter.
(9) Pope Francis has tended to stand by officials if they are publicly under attack and there are no signs that he is backing off from his support of Pell.
(10) Father Pell said ‘don’t be ridiculous’ and walked out,” said Green.
(11) Pell, who is Archbishop of Sydney is meanwhile described by The Australian as a 20-1 favourite to take over Benedict's job.
(12) Claims that Pell ignored or sought to silence allegations of abuse are more than a decade old.
(13) There was an internal backlash that had to do with the impression that Pell has accumulated too much power around himself and that he was setting himself up as a tinhorn dictator,” said Allen.
(14) Pell has previously apologised to victims of clergy sex abuse for the pain they endured.
(15) Pope Francis on Monday revealed Pell would become one of the most powerful men in the Catholic church with his new body having authority over all economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and Vatican.
(16) Observers say Pell is not the only man who has been caught in a difficult position.
(17) This week Saunders claimed in an interview in Australia that Pell’s allegedly “callous” past treatment of sex abuse victims was “almost sociopathic”.
(18) Tony Abbott has declined to say whether Cardinal George Pell should return to Australia from the Vatican to address claims made against him this week at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
(19) Vatican official George Pell 'corrects record' after abuse victim's bribery claim Read more “I am committed to complete cooperation with the royal commission,” the statement from Pell said.
(20) In a previous publication, Pell et al described the cancer epidemiologic surveillance program that was begun in the Du Pont Company in 1956 and presented standardized cancer incidence and mortality data through 1974 for Du Pont employees compared with such data for the US general population.