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say it: noh
know is a verb and noun meaning "be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about". It is pronounced /ˈnoʊ/ — noh. It carries 12 recorded senses.
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”
know how to do or perform something
“She knows how to knit”
“Does your husband know how to cook?”
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”
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”
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”
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”
have fixed in the mind
“I know Latin”
“This student knows her irregular verbs”
“Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?”
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
archaism
be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
“The child knows right from wrong”
the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
“he is always in the know”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for know come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.