know

Meaning

Verb

1. To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
2. To be or become aware or cognizant.
3. To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
4. (obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
5. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
6. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
7. To experience.
8. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
9. To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
10. To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
11. To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
12. To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
13. To have indexed and have information about within one's database.
14. To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.

Noun

1. Knowledge; the state of knowing.
2. Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)

Noun

Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”)

Particle

Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information the speaker thinks the listener should keep in mind.

Concepts

know

understand

recognize

knowledgeable

realize

perceive

comprehend

learn

be acquainted with

see

recognise

think

know how

be aware

experience

identify

feel

knowledge

acquainted with

remember

acknowledge

find out

hear

be aware of

notice

acquainted

familiar with

can

get to know

be knowledgeable

ascertain

sense

make out

admit

distinguish

have knowledge of

discriminate

grasp

aware of

tell

wit

live

lie with

sleep together

sleep with

know how to

able

how

realise

apprehend

come to know

discover

learn about

be obvious

figure out

ken

believe

understood

obtain information

regard

be acquainted

know about

cognise

cognize

bang

be intimate

bed

bonk

do it

eff

fuck

get it on

get laid

have a go at it

have intercourse

have it away

have it off

have sex

hump

jazz

love

make love

roll in the hay

screw

examine

separate

noesis

resolve

tell apart

catch

appreciate

compass

read

informed

be familiar

inform

wot

become aware of

be told

bear in mind

discern

reign

get the information

learn the news

come across

enlighten

be sensible

know the ways of the world

be apparent

be clear

apperceive

behold

visualize

conceive

become acquainted

consider

become aware

determine

wis

detect

be conscious of

call to mind

opine

smell

taste

not know

concede

acquaint

assort

individualize

single

singularize

cognition

gnosia

understanding

charm

have knowledge

know very well

make love to

become familiar

plain

think that

plan

foresee

be accustomed

recollect

show

look

imagine

consent

say yes

control

answer

deal

notification

reply

about

do

to

capable

break

cashier

cut

decouple

descry

differentiate

disentangle

disestablish

disjoin

dismiss

disperse

dissociate

disunite

drop

drum out

excommunicate

expel

fire

force out

isolate

keep apart

key out

mark

remove

secern

secernate

segregate

send down

separate off

separate out

sequester

sequestrate

set apart

severalise

severalize

sunder

uncouple

accord

affirm

allot

attorn

avow

award

bestow

confer

confess

give

grant

own up

squeal

vote

auspicate

mean

presage

spell

awareness

consciousness

heedfulness

knowingness

mindfulness

sentience

key

place

alive

figure

follow

get

get it

interpret

touch

translate

see into

two

thing

I

observe

make familiar

concern

used to

diagnose

twig

meet

aware

need

want

detection

insight

careful

investigate

judge

judicious

review

become acquainted with

experienced

acuity

acumen

belief

concept

faith

idea

opinion

opinion, supposition

position

prevue

senses

supposition

thought

view

make sense

dig

grok

savvy

agnise

agnize

knowledgable

guess

be

knows

be familiar with

acquaintance

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nəʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English knowen, from Old English cnāwan (“to know, perceive, recognise”), from Proto-West Germanic *knāan, from Proto-Germanic *knēaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
cognates
* from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic kná (“to know, know how to, be able”), Old High German knājan (“to know, recognise”), Old Norse kná (“to know how”). Remotely related also Dutch and German kennen, West Frisian kenne (see English ken).
* from Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “I know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“I know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).

Sentences

What do you know about that ?

" What is it that I still need to know ?" the boy asked .

Did you know that Harry got a new job ?

Cause you know how politicians are .

The Flying Corps owed to this man much more than they know or think .

He must know how to make rain and drive away the locusts .

Don't you know it ?

And I want you to know that I'm coming back .