noun
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Knowledge; the state of knowing.
verb
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To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
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He knew something terrible was going to happen.
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To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
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Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
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To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
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I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.
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To experience.
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Their relationship knew ups and downs.
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To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
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I wouldn't know one from the other.
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To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
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To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
example
His mother tongue is Italian, but he also knows French and English.
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To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’
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To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
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He knows about 19th century politics.
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To be or become aware or cognizant.
example
Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
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To be acquainted (with another person).
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To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
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Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
Examples of know in a Sentence
I know you must be tired, so I will let you rest.
I know they don't like me.
I know better than that.
He didn't know the car was coming.
Do you know that profound thinker?
Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.
Jim did not know, but he would not tell the Sawhorse that.
The boy stammered and did not know what to say.
I don't know how many times or how many ways I can say I'm sorry.
That it would mean people would no longer know their neighbors?
He does not know what he want.
I do not know whether the end of the world has come or not.
You can know everything in the world and still make bad decisions.
My hands felt every object and observed every motion, and in this way I learned to know many things.
I was greatly puzzled to know what he was doing.
We've been away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.
I don't know what you mean.
For a moment the boy did not know what he meant by this question.
The men did not know of the wound.
In fact, maybe he didn't know her very well.
We know not much about them.
In fact, he'd probably be horrified to know he slipped and did it now.
I don't dispute the cliché, "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."
Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
I didn't know you were awake.
History, Poetry, Mythology!--I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be.
You know I did all a father could for their education, and they have both turned out fools.
I am in the middle of it right now - only I don't know what I'm in the middle of.
He doesn't know what he says.
Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.
We only know that yesterday came a Rain of Stones upon us, which did much damage and injured some of our people.
But this I know, I love to play In the meadow, among the hay-- Up the water, and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.
He might never say anything to Jonathan about it, but Jonathan would know in other ways how he felt.
It is true that I have been asleep, but I know nothing about this money.
Do the Sanders know where everything is and what needs to be done with the animals?
I didn't know this mountain was so tall.
She's a little fussy, you know, and afraid of growing old, being a widow and still in her prime.
Oh, yes, I know she is anxious, and I will go.
Certainly, you don't want the whole world to know where you were last night.
The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward.
I didn't know you felt that way.
You know, I just thought of something.
I don't know why he is so secretive.
Do you know how that made me feel?
It perplexed even Jellia Jamb, for a time, to know what to do with the animal.
Of course I did not know what it was all about, but I enjoyed the pleasant odours that filled the house and the tidbits that were given to Martha Washington and me to keep us quiet.
Did you know that?
I'm not all that secretive, but you were the one who kept telling me that if he wanted you to know, he'd tell you.
You know how stubborn you are about not doing business with dishonest people.
I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation.