Usually means: Strike surface to make sound.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word knock:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knock, knock: Wordnik
  7. knock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knock: Wiktionary
  9. knock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knock, knock: Dictionary.com
  13. knock (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. knock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Knock (play), Knock (short-story), Knock (short story), Knock, The Knock (disambiguation), The Knock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Knock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. knock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. knock: Rhymezone
  19. knock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. knock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. knock: Free Dictionary
  22. knock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. knock: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knock (disambiguation), The Knock (disambiguation), knock: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knock (disambiguation), The Knock (disambiguation), knock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Knock: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. knock: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knock: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock, knock, knock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. knock: ESL Slang page

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. KNOCK: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
noun:  A sharp impact.
noun:  (figuratively, informal) A criticism.
noun:  (figuratively, informal) A blow or setback.
noun:  (automotive, uncountable) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
noun:  (cricket, slang) A batsman's innings.
noun:  (baseball) A ball hit into play, especially one that becomes a hit.
noun:  (cycling, uncountable) Synonym of hunger knock
verb:  (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
verb:  (transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To hit a ball into play.
verb:  (transitive, British, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To prosecute under the law; to arrest, imprison, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.
noun:  A suburb and ward in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
noun:  A townland in Drumcliff civil parish, County Clare, Ireland.
noun:  A town and civil parish of County Mayo, Ireland, location of the Knock Shrine.
noun:  A settlement in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5552).
noun:  A village on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4931).
noun:  A village in Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY6827).
noun:  A surname.

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