📖 K — The English dictionary · page 8

knitted — Everyday, meaning 1: Knitted means made by knitting, by looping wool or yarn together with two long needles or a machine.↗ e.g. "a knitted scarf".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) Knitted is the past form of knit.↗ e.g. "Grandma knitted me a hat".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Knitted brows (a frown) means eyebrows pulled together in worry or thought.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A broken bone that has knitted has joined and healed.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Close-knit means closely joined, like a close-knit family.↗ Example: Grandma knitted me a red jumper.↗ · I wore my knitted hat in the snow.↗ · She knitted 10 rows a day, so 70 rows took a week.↗ · He knitted his brows and thought hard.↗ · The broken arm knitted together in six weeks.↗ · We are a close-knit family.↗ · The knitted toy rabbit is soft and floppy.↗ · As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed hat, and their mothers knitted him gloves of all colours, to keep out the cold.↗

knitting — Everyday, meaning 1: Knitting is making clothes or other things from wool or yarn by looping it together with two long needles or a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Knitting is also the thing being knitted.↗ Example: Grandma was knitting a scarf for me.↗ · I learned knitting at after-school club.↗ · She put her knitting down to answer the phone.↗ · Knitting needles are long and pointed.↗ · Follow the knitting pattern and count your stitches.↗ · Finger knitting is a good way to start.↗

knob — Everyday, meaning 1: A knob is a round handle you turn or pull to open a door or drawer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A knob is a round button you turn to control a machine, like the volume on a radio or the heat on a cooker.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A knob is a small round lump on something, like a knob on a tree trunk.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A knob of butter is a small lump of it.↗ Example: Turn the knob to open the door.↗ · Don't touch the cooker knobs.↗ · Turn the knob on the radio to make it louder.↗ · Add a knob of butter to the hot pasta.↗ · The drawer knob came off in my hand.↗ · Use the focus knob to make the picture clear.↗ · The old tree had a big knob on its trunk.↗ · The baby gate has a knob that's hard for toddlers to turn.↗ · The iron railing looks like the gate of a cemetery, and there are brass knobs upon it.↗

knobbly — Everyday, meaning 1: Knobbly means covered with small round lumps or bumps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Knobbly knees are bony knees that stick out.↗ Example: The old oak tree had a knobbly trunk.↗ · He laughed at his own knobbly knees in his shorts.↗ · The mountain bike has knobbly tyres for mud.↗ · Gran's knobbly walking stick is made from a branch.↗ · Ginger is a knobbly root.↗ · The toad's back was knobbly and brown.↗

knock — Everyday, meaning 1: To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To hit something by accident so it moves or falls: knock over a cup.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To hit or bump a part of your body: knock your knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A noun: the sound of knocking, or a hit or bump.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Knock down: to make a building or a person fall to the ground; knock out: to make someone unconscious or to beat a team so it leaves a competition.↗ Example: Please knock before you come into my room.↗ · There was a loud knock at the door.↗ · I knocked over my juice and it spilled everywhere.↗ · She knocked her elbow on the table.↗ · They knocked down the old shed to build a playhouse.↗ · Our team got knocked out of the cup in the semifinal.↗ · If you get a knock on the head, tell a teacher.↗ · Knock knock!↗ Who's there?↗ · The wind knocked the bin over.↗ · He knocked at the door--tap, tap.↗

knockest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «knockest» means «you knock», a form of «knock».↗ e.g. To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you.↗

knockout — Everyday, meaning 1: In boxing, a knockout is a punch or a win when a fighter is knocked down and cannot get up in time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A knockout competition is one where the loser of each game leaves, until one winner is left.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A knockout is something or someone extremely good or beautiful: «The show was a knockout».↗ Example: The boxer won by a knockout in round three.↗ · England reached the knockout stage.↗ · In a knockout cup, if you lose you go home.↗ · With 32 teams in a knockout, there are 31 matches.↗ · Her singing was an absolute knockout.↗ · That was a knockout idea!↗ · The dodgeball game was a knockout: hit players are out.↗

knoll — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, round hill, often standing alone.↗ Example: The girl fell asleep by the little knoll.↗ · They climbed the knoll to look at the lake.↗ · The sheep grazed on the green knoll.↗

knot — Everyday, meaning 1: A place where a piece of string, rope or ribbon is tied around itself or another piece.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tie a knot or to become tangled.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tangled lump in hair or thread.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A hard, dark round spot in wood where a branch grew.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A unit of speed for ships, boats, planes and wind: one nautical mile per hour.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A tight, uncomfortable feeling (a knot in my stomach from nerves).↗ Everyday, meaning 7: A lightered knot is a piece of resin-rich wood that burns well and is used as a torch.↗ Example: I tied a knot in my shoelace.↗ · Can you help me undo this knot?↗ · My hair is full of knots after the wind.↗ · The sailor tied the boat with a strong knot.↗ · The ship sailed at twenty knots.↗ · I had a knot in my stomach before the test.↗ · Wood with knots can be harder to cut.↗ · Aunt Sarah and Tom are tying the knot next year.↗ · ‘I should like nothing better,’ said the man, as he stooped to undo the big knot.↗ · forasmuch as a surpassing spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and declaring of riddles, and loosing of knots, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar.↗ (Writings DAN.5.12, JPS 1917)↗

knotted — Everyday, meaning 1: Tied in a knot or having knots.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Twisted and tangled together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tight and hard, like knotted muscles or a stomach tight from worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb form) Tied something in a knot.↗ Example: My shoelaces were knotted and I couldn't undo them.↗ · Her hair was knotted after swimming.↗ · He knotted the rope to the tree.↗ · We climbed the knotted rope in PE.↗ · My stomach knotted before the test.↗ · The old tree had a knotted trunk.↗ · Finally, he found and drew forth a nicely plaited whip-thong with a red snapper all waxed and knotted.↗

knotty — Everyday, meaning 1: Full of knots, or lumpy and twisted, like old wood or rough legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a problem) hard to sort out, tangled.↗ Example: The old tree had knotty roots.↗ · The camel waved his knotty legs.↗ · This is a knotty question; we must think hard.↗ · It is also believed that he is bound to come and decide all knotty points in the law, and to appear before the true Messiah arrives.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

know — Everyday, meaning 1: To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To know a person is to have met them and be familiar with them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To know how to do something is to be able to do it.↗ e.g. She knows how to swim.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To know a place is to be familiar with it.↗ Example: Do you know how many apples are left?↗ · She knows 20 songs.↗ · He knew 8 of the words.↗ · How many words does she know now?↗ · I know the answer!↗ · Do you know how to tie your shoes?↗ · I've known Ella since we were five.↗ · Let me know when you're ready.↗ · Never get into a car with someone you don't know.↗ · I must know more of them."↗ · I know that he can speak well.↗ (Torah EXO.4.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.'↗ (Torah GEN.37.32, JPS 1917)↗ · We know not who put our money in our sacks.'↗ (Torah GEN.43.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Declare, if thou knowest it all.↗ (Writings JOB.38.18, JPS 1917)↗ · Know ye not? hear ye not?↗ (Prophets ISA.40.21, JPS 1917)↗ · What knowest thou, that we know not?↗ (Writings JOB.15.9, JPS 1917)↗

knowest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «knowest» means «you know», a form of «know».↗ e.g. To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told.↗ Example: And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.'↗ (Torah GEN.47.6, JPS 1917) · Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?"↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales) · And he said unto him: 'Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.↗ (Torah GEN.30.29, JPS 1917)

knoweth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «knoweth» means «knows», a form of «know».↗ e.g. To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told.↗ Example: And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.↗ (Torah DEU.34.6, JPS 1917) · I will gleam like the cloud, gleam in the sunshine of life, look out over the whole like the cloud, and pass away like it, no one knoweth whither."↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty;↗ (Torah LEV.5.3, JPS 1917)

knowledge — Everyday, meaning 1: Information, facts and understanding that you have learned.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Knowing about something: «He did it without my knowledge».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: All that people know about a subject: «scientific knowledge».↗ Example: Reading gives you knowledge about the world.↗ · Test your knowledge with our quiz!↗ · She has a lot of knowledge about dinosaurs.↗ · It's common knowledge that the earth goes around the sun.↗ · To my knowledge, the shop is still open.↗ · They took the car without his knowledge.↗ · Scientific knowledge changes when we find new evidence.↗ · It takes years to acquire great knowledge.↗ · And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.35.31, JPS 1917)↗ · and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, (Torah EXO.31.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you.'↗ (Torah DEU.1.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And hath He not full knowledge of arrogance?↗ (Writings JOB.35.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge?↗ (Writings JOB.42.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And is there knowledge in the Most High?'↗ (Writings PSA.73.11, JPS 1917)↗

knowledgeable — Everyday, meaning 1: Knowledgeable means knowing a lot about something, or about many things.↗ Example: Our museum guide was very knowledgeable.↗ · She is knowledgeable about birds.↗ · Ask Grandpa, he is knowledgeable about trains.↗ · A knowledgeable shop assistant helped us.↗ · He became knowledgeable by reading every day.↗ · The quiz team was knowledgeable about history.↗

known — Everyday, meaning 1: Known is the form of know used after have or be.↗ e.g. I have known her for years.↗ It is known.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, known means that people have it in their mind or have found it out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Well-known means famous, known by many people.↗ Example: The length is known, the width is not.↗ · Use the known numbers to find the total.↗ · It is known that each box has 6 eggs.↗ · I have known my best friend since nursery.↗ · The Sun is known as a star.↗ · It's a well-known story about three bears.↗ · The number of fish in the sea is not known exactly.↗ · This road is known for its traffic jams.↗ · Little is known of his history.↗ · But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.↗ (Torah NUM.31.18, JPS 1917)↗ · and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with him.↗ (Torah NUM.31.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.↗ (Torah NUM.31.17, JPS 1917)↗ · So his strength was not known.↗ (Prophets JDG.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · O LORD, Thou hast searched me, and known me.↗ (Writings PSA.139.1, JPS 1917)↗ · God in her palaces hath made Himself known for a stronghold.↗ (Writings PSA.48.4, JPS 1917)↗