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 knows in a Sentence
No one knows what the mother might do.
She knows she's lost and is desperate.
Anyone who has a child knows the love and concern parents feel for their offspring.
We're a house of cards in a windstorm, held together by God knows what.
This woman obviously knows she is outsmarted by me and wants to save her life.
She hardly knows me.
He knows I won't take the building down with all the humans.
He knows where to stand.
He hardly knows the woman and you heard what Martha said; she still holds a grudge over what she perceived as Howie's carelessness that caused her daughter's kidnapping and death.
There's something she knows that an Original Being doesn't?
He knows of course what this loss means to me.
Listen, I think he knows I saw something.
I know what Howie and you guys do though God knows, I don't know how.
The mother dragon probably knows the road to the earth's surface, and if she went the other way then we have come the wrong way, said the Wizard, thoughtfully.
She knows about cold springs.
God knows what he would have done at that moment had Helene not fled from the room.
I know, heaven knows how, but I know for certain that you won't marry her.
When I told him that duty and the oath were above everything, he started proving goodness knows what!
No one knows how to use any of it, Julie.
But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.
He was taken today but he knows nothing.
Natasha knows that he is struggling with terrible pain.
He knows what settings control each but it's far from exact.
Han knows you're coming.
She knows it's the marvel of engineering brilliance sure to draw him into her world.
But this man knows the truth and, if he wished to, could disclose it to me.
She knows men are attracted to her beauty, but she doesn't realize it's merely what gets them to her door.
No, this was pillow talk with Quinn but Howie knows something is wrong.
Who's afraid of this Psychic Tipster except a killer who knows what was tipped couldn't be learned by normal means?
Besides, Howie knows the consequences of discovery as well as we do.
He knows you can see where you can't be physically present.
Once in a while, I'm off duty and a call comes to someone else but I think the tipster person maybe knows my hours, 'cause it's rare another girl has to answer.
He knows the tipster exists because the tipster has information no one could learn through normal means.
He knows he has nightmares and tosses and turns but he doesn't realize he talks out loud lots of times.
And the beauty is no one knows I exist!
As incredible as this psychic ability is, the whole world knows something or someone can do this.
And if he was invis'ble, and the bears invis'ble, who knows that they really ate him up?
My school-teacher said so; and she knows a lot, Jim.
Mother usually knows what she is about, but she made a mistake this time; for you are sure to escape us unless you come too near, and you probably won't do that.
He can do several very wonderful things--if he knows how.
No one knows how he escaped being dashed to pieces.
If it gets enough "meh" responses, the system knows it has to re-juggle all the stats and do it differently.
She knows her life is in his hands; there is no one to protect her from his wrath.
The sun knows that you like to see the world covered with beautiful white snow and so he kept back all his brightness, and let the little crystals form in the sky.
My mother, and sister and little brother have been here five weeks, and our happiness knows no bounds.
No one, not even Bonaparte, knows why.
He knows you can pop up anywhere, geographically; you've proved that to him.
This is the first lesson every good spy knows.
You could have been trapped—lost, for God knows how long!
Nobody knows where the man is and even if he's been in there a long, long time, someone must care about him, or at least maybe did back then, when it happened.