knock

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
2. (countable, uncountable) A sharp impact.
3. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable) A criticism.
4. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable) A blow or setback.
5. (uncountable) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) A batsman's innings.
7. (countable, uncountable) A ball hit into play, especially one that becomes a hit.
8. (uncountable) Synonym of hunger knock.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
2. (dated, transitive) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
3. (colloquial, transitive) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
4. (transitive) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
5. (transitive) To hit a ball into play.
6. (British, dated, slang, transitive) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
7. (ambitransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
8. (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
9. (slang, transitive) To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc.
10. (intransitive) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.

Conceptes

copejar

cop

pegar

batre

criticar

trucar

tustar

picar

xocar

bategar

castigar

colpir

espetegar

percudir

repicar

sorprendre

colpejar

trompada

patac

reposar

patacada

endevinar

encertar

caure

abatre

tombar

tintinabular

denigració

truc

colp

batzac

tust

bastonejar

esclafar

hòstia

llet

🥛

batzacada

pic

ensopegar

renyar

Sinònims

hit

strike

beat

rap

tap

bump

pound

💷

blow

bang

punch

👊

stroke

criticize

smash

belt

smite

rattle

hammer

🔨

whack

smack

thump

bash

knocking

clatter

slap

jostle

shock

⚡

pink

impact

clobber

elbow

push

ram

🐏

chatter

whop

swat

collide

jab

buffet

hitting

clout

stub

bop

ridicule

force

clank

shove

ping

censure

criticise

poke

Traduccions

frapper

klopfen

kloppen

golpear

bussare

bater

colpire

schlagen

coup

colpo

golpe

slaan

botta

picchiare

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/nɒk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: knokken

Heretat de anglès antic: cnocian

Cognat amb alt alemany mitjà: knochen

Cognat amb anglès antic: cnuian

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: knoka

Cognat amb danès: knuge

Cognat amb suec: knocka

In summary

From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).