Knock

Noun

 * 1) An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood
 * I heard a knock on my door.
 * 1) An impact.
 * He took a knock on the head.
 * 1)  a batsman's innings.
 * He played a slow but sure knock of 35.
 * 1)  A type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.

Verb

 * 1) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
 * Knock on the door and find out if they're home.
 * 1) To bump or impact.
 * I knocked against the table and bruised my leg.
 * 1)  To denigrate, undervalue.
 * Don't knock it until you've tried it.
 * 1)  To pass, kick a ball towards another player.

Derived terms

 * knock someone's socks off

Adjectives for Knock
welcome; jarring; thundering; timid; hesitating; parlous; cheerful; imperative; timorous; hard; unwonted; resounding.

Adverbs for Knock
sharply; clamorously; deliberately; accidentally; respectfully; irritably; resoundingly; unwontedly; thunderously; echoingly; startlingly.

Thesaurus
KO, abuse, adverse criticism, animadversion, arouse, aspersion, associate with, astonish, astound, awaken, bad notices, bad press, bang, bang into, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, beat up, beating, belt, bewilder, biff, blame, blow, bob, bonk, bop, bowl over, buffet, bump, bump into, burst, bust, cannon, captiousness, carom, carom into, carp at, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, chop, clap, clash, clip, clobber, clock out, close down, clout, clump, coldcock, collide, come into collision, complete, concuss, condemn, condemnation, confront each other, conk, consort with, copy, crack, crack up, crash, crash into, criticism, criticize, crump, crunch, cuff, cut, cut down, dash, dash into, daze, deal, deal a blow, debate, deck, demolish, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, destroy, dig, dint, discuss, disparage, drub, drubbing, drumming, encounter, exception, fall foul of, faultfinding, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, finish, flail, flak, flap, flatten, floor, flop, foul, fusillade, gad about, get with child, go home, hairsplitting, hammer, hammering, hit, hit a clip, hit against, home thrust, hostile criticism, hurt, hurtle, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imitate, impinge, impregnate, improvise, imputation, insult, jab, kayo, kill, knock about, knock against, knock around, knock cold, knock down, knock off, knock out, knock over, knock together, knock unconscious, knock up, lambaste, larrup, lay in ruins, left, let have it, level, lick, lift, lock up, maltreat, manhandle, maul, meet, mistreat, nagging, nick, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, overcome, overcriticalness, overwhelm, pan, paste, patter, pelt, percuss, pestering, pettifogging, pilfer, pinch, plunk, poke, polish off, pommel, pound, pounding, priggishness, prostrate, pull down, pulverize, pummel, punch, put down, put together, quibble, quibbling, quit, ramble, rap, raze, reflection, report, reprehend, reproachfulness, reprobate, right, roam, rob, rove, run down, run into, sideswipe, skin, slam, slam into, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, slur, smack, smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, snipe at, soak, sock, spank, splat, stagger, steal, stricture, strike, strike against, strike at, stroke, stun, swap, swat, swing, swipe, taking exception, talk over, tap, tattoo, terminate, thieve, thrash, thresh, throw down, thump, thwack, travel, trichoschistism, trounce, tunk, wake up, wallop, wander, whack, wham, whap, whip, whomp, whop, wipe, wreck, yerk

Etymology
Akin to Old Norse knoka: (compare Swedish knocka:, Danish knuge:, to hug) and Middle High German knochen:, to hit.

Noun

 * Albanian: e trokitur
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: Klopfen
 * Indonesian: ketokan


 * Italian: colpo
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: стук
 * Swedish: knackning
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: coup (1)


 * German:
 * Indonesian: benturan
 * Italian: colpo, botta
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: nakutus


 * Italian: autocombustione


 * : ketukan


 * : golpe

Verb

 * Albanian: trokas
 * Arabic: خبط
 * Catalan: colpejar,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: खटखटाना
 * Indonesian: ketok
 * Italian:, battere, sbattere


 * Japanese: ノック,
 * Lithuanian: pasibelsti
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  стукнуть
 * Scottish Gaelic:, buail
 * Slovene: potrkati, trkati
 * Spanish: door llamar a
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: cnocio


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Ido:


 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian: støte, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: stöta emot, slå emot


 * Finnish:


 * Italian: buttare giù, distruggere, denigrare, sparlare


 * : ketuk, bentur


 * : golpear

Derived terms

 * antiknock
 * knock about
 * knock around
 * knock down
 * knock for a loop
 * knock it off


 * knock knock
 * knock off / knockoff
 * knock oneself out
 * knock somebody's socks off
 * knock out / knockout
 * knock over


 * knock up
 * knocked up
 * knocker
 * knocker up
 * knocking shop
 * school of hard knocks