Knock
11knock in — [phrasal verb] knock (a run or runner) in or knock in (a run or runner) baseball : to cause (a run or runner) to score He knocked in [=batted in, drove in] a run in the second inning with a double to left field. • • • Main Entry: ↑knock …
12knock-on — UK US /ˌnɒkˈɒn/ adjective [only before noun] ► causing other events or situations to happen, although not directly: »High petrol prices could be having a knock on effect among manufacturers. »knock on benefits/consequences …
13knock-on — adj BrE have a knock on effect (on sth) to start a process in which everything that happens causes something else to happen ▪ These price rises will have a knock on effect on the economy …
14knock up — Care needs to be taken with this phrasal verb, which in BrE means ‘to wake by knocking on the door’ and in AmE (and increasingly in BrE too) means ‘to make pregnant’. In intransitive use, to knock up is to practise tennis strokes before the start …
15knock-on — knock ,on adjective BRITISH a knock on effect is the indirect result of something …
16knock — vb *tap, rap, thump, thud Analogous words: *strike, hit, smite: *beat, pound, pummel knock n tap, rap, thump, thud (see under TAP vb) Analogous words: pounding, beating (see BEAT vb) …
17knock up — ► knock up 1) informal, chiefly N. Amer. make (a woman) pregnant. 2) Brit. make (something) hurriedly. Main Entry: ↑knock …
18knock-up — knockˈ up noun (in tennis, etc) practice immediately before a match • • • Main Entry: ↑knock …
19knock|er-up — «NOK uhr UHP», noun, plural knock|ers up. British. a person who calls the resident of a house to the door in order to prepare the ground for someone else to solicit or canvass: »Three hundred yards away…the candidate, is canvassing with six… …
20Knock — (K. Head), Vorgebirg an der Nordküste der schottischen Grafschaft Banff am Murraygolf der Nordsee …
