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KNOWN

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apprehended with certainty

Example:

a known criminal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

best-known (most familiar or renowned)

better-known (more familiar or renowned than the other of two)

celebrated; famed; famous; far-famed; illustrious; notable; noted; renowned (widely known and esteemed)

identified (having the identity known or established)

legendary (so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend)

proverbial (widely known and spoken of)

well-known (widely or fully known)

Also:

acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)

familiar (well known or easily recognized)

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

Antonym:

unknown (not known)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past participle of the verb know

Credits

 Context examples: 

"To what known creature does that bone belong?" asked the Professor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I could do no less, under these circumstances, than make Mr. Micawber known to Uriah Heep and his mother; which I accordingly did.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I can assure you, said Holmes, that every essential is already known.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But this was, of course, not known till after by the faithful party.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

An indication that the test system (animal) could not be found, in which case, its disposition was not known, and no postmortem data was available.

(Missing Study Animal, NCI Thesaurus)

The archer settled himself to it like one who had known what it was to find good food scarce; but his tongue still went as merrily as his teeth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a rumour that he had been seen in Westminster in the next week, and then that he had escaped for America, but nothing more is known.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While it has no known role in oncogenesis, MIR659 plays a role in the development of frontotemporal dementia.

(MIR659 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)