What's the difference between know and unknow?

Know


Definition:

  • (n.) Knee.
  • (v. i.) To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty.
  • (v. i.) To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information.
  • (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization.
  • (v. i.) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure.
  • (v. i.) To have sexual commerce with.
  • (v. i.) To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception; to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often with of.
  • (v. i.) To be assured; to feel confident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (2) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (4) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
  • (5) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
  • (6) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (7) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (8) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
  • (9) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (10) To know the relation between the signal intensity and sodium concentration, sodium concentration--signal intensity curve was obtained using phantoms with various sodium concentrations (0.05-1.0%).
  • (11) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
  • (12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (13) No one knows if this drug will be approved for use by American physicians.
  • (14) "Everyone knows what it stands for and everyone has already got it in their home.
  • (15) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
  • (16) In view of its significant effects on drug metabolizing enzymes and clearance mechanisms, it is important to know its disposition characteristics.
  • (17) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (18) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
  • (19) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
  • (20) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.

Unknow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.
  • (v. t.) To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
  • (a.) Unknown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (2) Parents unknowingly adjust the structure and dynamics of speech to the constraints of infant capacities, detach prosodic musicality from lexical structure, and use it in particularly expressive forms for the delivery of the first prototypical messages.
  • (3) This form of mechanical purpura, often caused by suction may be deliberately or unknowingly induced by the patient.
  • (4) The results indicate that one group of surgeons (34% of those responding) believes each type of surgery has equal survival rates but unknowingly influences the patient to choose modified radical mastectomy, with a subtly biased presentation.
  • (5) These counter-transferential concerns ultimately made the woman's psychological essence an unknowable riddle for Freud.
  • (6) The unknown, on the other hand, is not just unknown but perhaps even unknowable – and its consequences could be worse.
  • (7) The other women were unknowingly pregnant at the time of the sterilization.
  • (8) While Europeans cannot unknowingly run up a bill larger than €50 (£42) while abroad, roaming charges are still many times higher than domestic call costs and will remain so without further legislation.
  • (9) The future threats can remain fully unknowable and fully addressable – on the individual level.
  • (10) He ended his life as unknowable and contrary as the 22-year-old who made Do the Ostrich.
  • (11) One of the ideas of the book is about the unknowability or uncategorisability of human behaviour, and I was rather tempted into those ambiguous sexual areas."
  • (12) You could [attack] your factional enemies to your heart’s content and that would be a dangerous system.” Simplification of the complex system with stronger definitions The opacity of the current entitlements system often leads to politicians knowingly or unknowingly exploiting the grey areas.
  • (13) "Judging additionality has turned out to be unknowable and unworkable.
  • (14) The resistance was not due to the presence of any inhibitor in the crude extract, but possibly due to the special configuration of the lectin molecule or other unknow reasons.
  • (15) During the suboccipital (retrosigmoid) removal of a tumor, the surgeon unknowingly may leave tumor remnants leading to regrowth.
  • (16) Obama meant to call attention to Trayvon Martin's unknowable potential (how many future presidents, future Nobel prize winners, future mothers and fathers have we lost to pointless racial violence?)
  • (17) Given diplomacy's ineffectiveness and the unknowable but terrible consequences of air strikes, it is easy to see why covert action is the least bad option; most of the successes and failures in this war will remain unsung, but some have made news.
  • (18) If the eye were unknowingly anesthetized, exposure to an irritant could go undected and cause injury.
  • (19) The metabolism of americium-241 has been studied during an 8-year period in an adult male and his son who, at the ages of 50 and 4 years, respectively, were accidentally and unknowingly contaminated within their home by means of inhalation.
  • (20) The process, of balancing emotional and reproductive needs against the instinct for survival, and the categorisation of an essentially unknowable risk, is so complicated that counsellors and charities have developed a “risk tool” to help women judge their own needs.

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