knock

«knock» in Mova's school dictionary: To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (knock, knocks, knocked, knocking; knock over, knock down, knock out); noun (a knock, knocks)

meaning for a pupil

1) To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you. tree →

2) To hit something by accident so it moves or falls: knock over a cup. tree →

3) To hit or bump a part of your body: knock your knee. tree →

4) A noun: the sound of knocking, or a hit or bump. tree →

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. tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday manners: knock before you go into someone's room. Safety: a knock on the head should be told to an adult; don't open the door to a knock if you are home alone. In stories a knock at the door means someone has arrived and something will happen. Jokes: «knock knock» jokes. Phrases: knock on the door, knock over, knock down, knock out, a knock on the head, knock it off (stop it), knock-on effect.

examples

• Please knock before you come into my room. tree →
• There was a loud knock at the door. tree →
• I knocked over my juice and it spilled everywhere. tree →
• She knocked her elbow on the table. tree →
• They knocked down the old shed to build a playhouse. tree →
• Our team got knocked out of the cup in the semifinal. tree →
• If you get a knock on the head, tell a teacher. tree →
• Knock knock! Who's there? tree →
• The wind knocked the bin over. tree →
• He knocked at the door--tap, tap. tree →

note

The k is silent: say «nock». Regular verb: knocked. «Knock knock» starts a joke game. «Knock it off» is a casual way to say «stop it». Not used in maths for numbers, except a team knocked out leaves fewer teams in the competition.

In the corpora

• Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note.
• Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it.
• Breaching means leaping out of the water; scientists think whales do it to signal, show off or knock off skin pests.
• RABBIT", and Alice goes in without knocking and hurries upstairs, afraid of meeting the real Mary Ann and being turned out.
• They got lost in the snow on the way to school and knocked at Badger's back door.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «knock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.