(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.
Shooter
Definition:
(n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
(n.) That which shoots.
(n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter.
(n.) A shooting star.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
(3) In that time it has seen the Call of Duty brand catapulted from a modestly successful cinematic shooter to the biggest entertainment property in the world.
(4) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
(5) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
(6) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
(7) According to the Orlando Weekly , a friend said that Velazquez was with two other friends at Pulse, where the dancer was pushed against a wall by the shooter, Omar Mateen.
(8) Ten competition shooters were tested during simulated race using the force platform technique to investigate the effect of training on postural stability.
(9) Shooters at stand must be instructed not to leave their stands until explicitly told to do so.
(10) Even though St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar erroneously said the shooter(s) were “embedded” with those chanting outside the Ferguson Police Department, the shots came from far away and could have easily struck anyone.
(11) As new information emerges from the FBI suggesting the husband and wife shooters were radicalised up to two years earlier and may have been plotting other attacks, Cruz argued that blanket surveillance had proven to be counter-productive in spotting potential Islamic extremists operating in the US.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father of Dallas police shooter: ‘I love my son.
(13) The results revealed that expert biathletes seem to use a different strategy than expert rifle shooters, each of them adapting to the characteristics of their respective discipline.
(14) Highly skilled shooters were less anxious and performed better across all competitions than moderately skilled shooters but did not differ on self-control and anxiety trait.
(15) San Bernardino shooter's alleged Isis link: Obama's worst political nightmare Read more But the battle has been less marked by tangible signs of progress, as the militant group maintains its grip on northern Syria , Iraq and the Euphrates River Valley, and as foreign fighters continue to move to and from the battlefield unimpeded.
(16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
(17) That was not necessarily a disaster for a team with West Ham’s skill set, however, so well stocked are they with long-range shooters, and both Pedro Obiang and Noble duly hit the woodwork from distance before half-time.
(18) The four weapons used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to kill 12 students and a teacher at Columbine high school in April 1999 were bought by a friend of the shooters from unlicensed sellers at a gun show.
(19) It feels like a super slick co-op shooter, which is what it is.
(20) "It was only the poor preparation of the Ukrainian military and the timely evacuation of law enforcement officers under the cover of armoured transport vehicles that did not allow the shooters to realise their intention."