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KNOCKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)
Example:
the knocking grew louder
Synonyms:
knock; knocking
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("knocking" is a kind of...):
sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)
Derivation:
knock (rap with the knuckles)
knock (sound like a car engine that is firing too early)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb knock
Context examples:
I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You also have learned to negotiate well for yourself—just think back to 2016 and 2017 and see how far you’ve come before Saturn came knocking.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Again she shook her head, and again he started to pass her the gun, when the door opened, and an Indian, without knocking, came in.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The functions of many other genes have been inferred based on analyzing proteins or have been identified as possible disease genes, but the functions of those genes have not been confirmed by knocking them out in animal models and seeing what happens.
(A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies, NIH)
An astronomer proposed 23 years ago that a red dwarf star 1.5 light-years away could periodically travel through the icy outer limits of our Solar System, stirring up material with its gravity, knocking a few more space boulders our way.
(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
With difficulty, for something seemed to resist her efforts, she raised the lid a few inches; but at that moment a sudden knocking at the door of the room made her, starting, quit her hold, and the lid closed with alarming violence.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
By knocking out every known protein-encoding gene in the human genome and then testing the ability of the gene-modified melanoma cells to respond to T cells, they found more than 100 genes that may play a role in facilitating tumor destruction by T cells.
(A new study identifies essential genes for cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)
She was sitting near the window, and as soon as Sir John perceived her, he left the rest of the party to the ceremony of knocking at the door, and stepping across the turf, obliged her to open the casement to speak to him, though the space was so short between the door and the window, as to make it hardly possible to speak at one without being heard at the other.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at work; when turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings would permit me, I saw a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one syllable.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At first I thought of knocking, then I remembered my ostensible errand and resolved to carry it out.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
