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# knock

«knock» in Mova's school dictionary: **To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (knock, knocks, knocked, knocking; knock over, knock down, knock out); noun (a knock, knocks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To hit a door or window with your knuckles so people inside hear you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#m1)

2) To hit something by accident so it moves or falls: knock over a cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#m2)

3) To hit or bump a part of your body: knock your knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#m3)

4) A noun: the sound of knocking, or a hit or bump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#m4)

5) Knock down: to make a building or a person fall to the ground; knock out: to make someone unconscious or to beat a team so it leaves a competition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday manners: knock before you go into someone's room. Safety: a knock on the head should be told to an adult; don't open the door to a knock if you are home alone. In stories a knock at the door means someone has arrived and something will happen. Jokes: «knock knock» jokes. Phrases: knock on the door, knock over, knock down, knock out, a knock on the head, knock it off (stop it), knock-on effect.

### examples

- Please knock before you come into my room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x1)
- There was a loud knock at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x2)
- I knocked over my juice and it spilled everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x3)
- She knocked her elbow on the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x4)
- They knocked down the old shed to build a playhouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x5)
- Our team got knocked out of the cup in the semifinal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x6)
- If you get a knock on the head, tell a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x7)
- Knock knock! Who's there? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x8)
- The wind knocked the bin over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x9)
- He knocked at the door--tap, tap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/#x10)

### note

The k is silent: say «nock». Regular verb: knocked. «Knock knock» starts a joke game. «Knock it off» is a casual way to say «stop it». Not used in maths for numbers, except a team knocked out leaves fewer teams in the competition.

### In the corpora

- [Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/13/)
- [Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/27/)
- [Breaching means leaping out of the water; scientists think whales do it to signal, show off or knock off skin pests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/12/)
- [RABBIT", and Alice goes in without knocking and hurries upstairs, afraid of meeting the real Mary Ann and being turned out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/11/)
- [They got lost in the snow on the way to school and knocked at Badger's back door.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «knock» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/knock/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.