5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Know \Know\ (n[=o]), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Knew} (n[=u]); p. p. {Known} (n[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Knowing}.] [OE. knowen, knawen, AS. cn["a]wan; akin to OHG. chn["a]an (in comp.), Icel. kn["a] to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere, Gr. gighw'skein, Skr. jn[=a]; fr. the root of E. can, verb (used without an object), ken. [root]45. See {Ken}, {Can} to be able, and cf. {Acquaint}, {Cognition}, {Gnome}, {Ignore}, {Noble}, {Note}.] 1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's duty. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. --Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. --Longfellow. 2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of; as, to know things from information. 3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. --Milton. 4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure. Ye shall know them by their fruits. --Matt. vil. 16. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. --Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. --Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. --Flatman. 5. To have sexual intercourse with. And Adam knew Eve his wife. --Gen. iv. 1. Note: Know is often followed by an objective and an infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a dependent sentence, etc. And I knew that thou hearest me always. --John xi. 42. The monk he instantly knew to be the prior. --Sir W. Scott. In other hands I have known money do good. --Dickens. {To know how}, to understand the manner, way, or means; to have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How is sometimes omitted. '' If we fear to die, or know not to be patient.'' --Jer. Taylor. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Knowing \Know"ing\, adjective 1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. --South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. [Colloq.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Knowing \Know"ing\, noun Knowledge; hence, experience. '' In my knowing.'' --Shak. This sore night Hath trifled former knowings. --Shak. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: knowing adjective 1: evidencing the possession of inside information [syn: {wise(p)}, {wise to(p)}] 2: by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time" [syn: {deliberate}, {intentional}, {willful}, {wilful}] 3: alert and fully informed; "politically aware"; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "the most...technically aware of the novelists under thirty"- W.S.Graham; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on" [syn: {aware(p)}, {knowledgeable}] 4: highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: {enlightened}, {knowledgeable}, {learned}, {lettered}, {well-educated}, {well-read}] noun: clear and certain mental apprehension From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 174 Moby Thesaurus words for "knowing": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, advised, aimed, aimed at, alive, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, arch, artful, astute, awake, aware, blase, brainy, bright, brilliant, broad-minded, cagey, calculated, calculating, canny, clever, cognizant, comprehending, conceptive, conceptual, conscious, considered, conspiratorial, conspiratory, contemplated, conversant, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deliberate, deliberated, designed, designing, devious, diplomatic, discerning, discursive, disenchanted, disillusioned, eloquent, envisaged, envisioned, experienced, expert, expressive, feline, foxy, gnostic, guileful, hep, ideational, ingenious, insidious, insightful, intellectual, intelligent, intended, intentional, inventive, knowledgable, knowledgeable, learned, mature, matured, meaningful, meant, meditated, mindful, mondaine, nimble-witted, noetic, not born yesterday, not so dumb, observant, of design, old, omniscient, pawky, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, planned, politic, practiced, prehensile, private, profound, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, qualified, quick, quick-witted, rational, ready, reasonable, resourceful, ripe, ripened, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, scheming, seasoned, secret, sensible, sentient, serpentine, sharp, sharp-witted, shifty, shrewd, significant, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophic, sophistical, sophisticate, sophisticated, stealthy, strategic, strong-minded, studied, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, teleological, trickish, tricksy, tricky, tried, tried and true, understanding, veteran, vigilant, voluntary, vulpine, wary, watchful, well-informed, willful, wily, wise, wise as Solomon, witting, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

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