know

名词 n. 动词 v. 助词
中文释义
英 /nəʊ/    美 /noʊ/|[nəʉ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”). alt-of,alternative
    — Owing to increasing numbers and consequent want of room for nestage, the old birds drove away the younger ones, who took refuge in their present abode at Fox's Know, where they have been located about six years.
  2. Knowledge; the state of knowing. rare,uncountable
    — That on the view and know of theſe Contents, […] He ſhould the bearers put to […] death, […]
  3. Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.) uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that. transitive
    — Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true.
  2. To be or become aware or cognizant. intransitive
    — Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
  3. To be aware of; to be cognizant of. transitive
    — Did you know Michelle and Jack were getting divorced? ― Yes, I knew.
  4. To be acquainted (with another person). intransitive,obsolete
    — You, and I haue knowne ſir.
  5. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. transitive
    — I know your mother, but I've never met your father.
  6. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.; 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'. archaic,euphemistic,transitive
    — AFterwarde the man knewe Heuáh his wife, which cõceiued & bare Káin, & ſaid, I haue obteined a man by yͤ Lord.
  7. To experience. transitive
    — Their relationship knew ups and downs.
  8. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
    — Let me do it. I know how it works.
  9. To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of. transitive
    — to know a person's face or figure
  10. To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change. transitive
    — At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.
  11. To have knowledge; to have information, be informed. intransitive
    — It is vital that he not know.
  12. To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music). transitive
    — Do you know "Blueberry Hill"?
  13. To have indexed and have information about within one's database. transitive
    — Mmm... Seems you searched for a name that we don't know, we'll send our trained monkeys to check what's in stock.
  14. To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief. transitive
助词
  1. Used at the end of a sentence to draw attention to information one thinks the listener should keep in mind. Singlish
    — Make sure you water the plants, know…

词形变化

knows present,singular,third-person knowing participle,present knew past knowed nonstandard,past known participle,past knew colloquial,nonstandard,participle,past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template know infinitive know first-person,present,singular knew first-person,past,singular know present,second-person,singular knowest archaic,present,second-person,singular knew past,second-person,singular knewest archaic,past,second-person,singular knows present,singular,third-person knoweth archaic,present,singular,third-person knew past,singular,third-person know plural,present knew past,plural know present,subjunctive knew past,subjunctive know imperative,present - imperative,past knowing participle,present known participle,past knaa alternative,Northumbria knowe alternative,obsolete knaa alternative,Northumbria knowe alternative,obsolete knows plural

词汇关系

近义词
go to bed with sleep with
下位词
grok
衍生词
in the know

词源

词源 1
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 Indo-European: Latin gnoscō, Latin cognoscō (Spanish conocer, French connaître, Romanian cunoaște, Italian conoscere, Portuguese conhecer), Ancient Greek γνωρίζω (gnōrízō, “to know”) and γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), Albanian njoh (“to know, recognise”), Russian знать (znatʹ, “to know”), Lithuanian žinoti (“to know”), and Persian شناختن (šenâxtan, “to know”).
from Proto-Germanic: Scots knaw (“to know, recognise”), Icelandic knega (“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).
词源 2
Shortening of you know (sense 4)—Singapore English favours pro-drop constructions (Wee, 2003).
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