From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
know
v 1: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of
information; possess knowledge or information about; "I
know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to
know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time" [syn:
cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore]
2: know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to
knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
3: be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith
in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know
that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the
earth moves around the sun"
4: be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She
doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We
know this movie"; "I know him under a different name";
"This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"
5: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or
sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known
hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug
addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare";
"I lived through two divorces" [syn: experience, live]
6: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power
and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the
true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods"
[syn: acknowledge, recognize, recognise]
7: have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows
her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to
recite it?"
8: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love,
make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, {have
sex}, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, {have it
away}, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff,
hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, {get
it on}, bonk]
9: know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big
show-off"
10: be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The
child knows right from wrong"
11: perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Know \Know\, v. i.
1. To have knowledge; to have a clear and certain perception;
to possess wisdom, instruction, or information; -- often
with of.
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Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
--Is. i. 3.
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If any man will do his will, he shall know of the
doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak
of myself. --John vii.
17.
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The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of
willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn.
--Tylor.
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2. To be assured; to feel confident.
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To know of, to ask, to inquire. [Obs.] " Know of your
youth, examine well your blood." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Know \Know\ (n[=o]), n.
Knee. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Know \Know\ (n[=o]), v. t. [imp. Knew (n[=u]); p. p. Known
(n[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Knowing.] [OE. knowen, knawen,
AS. cn[aum]wan; akin to OHG. chn[aum]an (in comp.), Icel.
kn[aum] to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere,
noscere, Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jn[=a]; fr. the root of E.
can, v. i., ken. [root]45. See Ken, Can to be able, and
cf. Acquaint, Cognition, Gnome, Ignore, Noble,
Note.]
1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to
understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's
duty.
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O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak.
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There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know
it. --Dryden.
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Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. --Longfellow.
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2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of;
as, to know things from information.
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3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or
less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to
possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the
rules of an organization.
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He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
--2 Cor. v.
21.
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. --Milton.
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4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of;
as, to know a person's face or figure.
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Ye shall know them by their fruits. --Matt. vil.
16.
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And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
--Luke xxiv.
31.
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To know
Faithful friend from flattering foe. --Shak.
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At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.
--Flatman.
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5. To have sexual intercourse with.
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And Adam knew Eve his wife. --Gen. iv. 1.
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Note: Know is often followed by an objective and an
infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a
dependent sentence, etc.
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And I knew that thou hearest me always. --John
xi. 42.
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The monk he instantly knew to be the prior. --Sir
W. Scott.
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In other hands I have known money do good.
--Dickens.
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To know how, to understand the manner, way, or means; to
have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How
is sometimes omitted. " If we fear to die, or know not to
be patient." --Jer. Taylor.
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