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KNOW AS
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look on as or consider
Example:
He is reputed to be intelligent
Synonyms:
be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "know as" is one way to...):
believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
Example:
The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader
Synonyms:
be known as; call; know as; name
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "know as" is one way to...):
label (assign a label to; designate with a label)
Verb group:
call (ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality)
address; call (greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "know as"):
baptise; baptize; christen (administer baptism to)
refer (use a name to designate)
style; title (designate by an identifying term)
dub; nickname (give a nickname to)
rename (assign a new name to)
entitle; title (give a title to)
term (name formally or designate with a term)
tag (provide with a name or nickname)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Context examples:
You know as well as I that it does make a difference with nearly everyone, so don't ruffle up like a dear, motherly hen, when your chickens get pecked by smarter birds.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Phencyclidine, a substance of abuse also know as 'angel dust', can cause physical and psychological distresses, such as coma, seizures, convulsions, respiratory depression, and cardiac problems.
(Phencyclidine, NCI Thesaurus)
Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don’t know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She must know as well as her father, how acceptable an instrument would be; and perhaps the mode of it, the mystery, the surprize, is more like a young woman's scheme than an elderly man's.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It is not to be supposed that any prior attachment on your side—in short, you know as to an attachment of that kind, it is quite out of the question, the objections are insurmountable—you have too much sense not to see all that.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“I am a married man, and have been so for three years. During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined. We have not had a difference, not one, in thought or word or deed. And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You must be scribe and write him all down, so that when the others return from their work you can give it to them; then they shall know as we do.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I doen't know as he'd do violence under any circumstances, but I hope as them two may be kep asunders.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Aye, and it is a road that I know as I know the Midhurst parish butts,” quoth the bowman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
