Known can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
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| known - apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal" | ||
Verb |
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| know - 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 - 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" | ||
| know - 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" | ||
| know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?" | ||
| know - have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?" | ||
| know - perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!" | ||
| know - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong" | ||
| know - 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" | ||
| know - know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off" | ||
Noun |
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| know - the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people; "he is always in the know" |
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| 1. | adj. | A known quantity. | |
| 2. | adj. | The limits of the known world. | |
| 3. | adj. | A musician known throughout the world. | |
| 4. | adj. | A known criminal. | |
| 5. | adj. | In addition, LTTE activity in the Andaman Sea is well known to local observers. | |
| 6. | adj. | But to stand, day after day, and to make such preposterous statements, known to everybody to be lies, without even being ridiculed in your own milieu, can only happen in this region. | |
| 7. | adj. | Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary. | |
| 8. | adj. | What became known as the palace coup began on Oct. 26 when ISO board members voted for severe restrictions on the amount of money electricity producers could charge for power. | |
| 9. | adj. | A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. | |
| 10. | adj. | Had I known about it, I would have told you. | |
| 11. | adj. | To persuade somebody that your recommendation is reasonable and wise, you have to give reasons and quote known examples and authorities. | |
| 12. | adj. | He travels about the world gathering facts about little known countries. | |
| 13. | adj. | Football is the most known sport in the world. | |
| 14. | adj. | In the tenth century, the city of Shiraz already held a library that reputedly featured a copy of every known book at the time. | |
| 15. | adj. | There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. | |
| 16. | verb | Four whole months, after which he took advantage of a little-known, little-invoked regulation that allowed him to desert his "band of brothers". | |
| 17. | verb | Since the "Sea Tigers" of the LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, are the ones who rule the Andaman Sea: they carry the arms and drugs for their own use and also to deliver to rebels in Aceh and all along the east coast of Africa. | |
| 18. | verb | All three are extremist Taliban or their allies and known to be living in Pakistan. | |
| 19. | verb | Kayani is well known and liked in Kabul as during the last year he led the Pakistani delegation in the tripartite military meetings with the Afghan and US military on issues related to border issues. | |
| 20. | verb | Small polygamous groups have existed in the southwestern US under the watchful yet fairly benign eye of authorities ever since a sect known as the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) separated itself from mainstream Mormonism in 1890. | |
| 21. | verb | Zawahiri was associated with a faction of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad known as the Vanguards of Conquest. | |
| 22. | verb | On August 9, 2004, it was announced that in the Spring of 2001, a man named El-Shukrijumah, also known as Jafar the Pilot, who was part of a "second wave," had been casing New York City helicopters. | |
| 23. | verb | The islamist had been released from Egyptian prison and had known Zawahiri well for many years. | |
| 24. | verb | The CIA has known of Zawahiri's plans to use anthrax for a half decade. | |
| 25. | verb | In Fall 2004, MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reports that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had Ames that was a match from 16 to 4 but cannot rule out that it was made overseas. | |
| 26. | verb | There still is a very hot pursuit of the "Atta-level" Floridian, Adnan El Shukrijumah, who Siddiqui is thought to have known and been assisting. | |
| 27. | verb | It has long been known Osama Bin Laden was interested in using cropdusters to disperse biological agents (since the testimony of millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam). | |
| 28. | verb | The suspicion was founded on many false premises, and there was no reliable publicly known evidence indicating his guilt. | |
| 29. | verb | we are collecting a premium up front and their total cost is known up front. | |
| 30. | verb | Seeing that you're not surprised, I think you must have known. | |
| 31. | noun | He is always in the know. | |
| 32. | noun | Soldiers with vital training and know-how are refusing to re-enlist. |
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| adj. | |
| A known quantity. |
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| The limits of the known world. |
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| A musician known throughout the world. |
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| A known criminal. |
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| In addition, LTTE activity in the Andaman Sea is well known to local observers. |
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| But to stand, day after day, and to make such preposterous statements, known to everybody to be lies, without even being ridiculed in your own milieu, can only happen in this region. |
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| Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary. |
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| What became known as the palace coup began on Oct. 26 when ISO board members voted for severe restrictions on the amount of money electricity producers could charge for power. |
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| A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. | |
| Had I known about it, I would have told you. | |
| To persuade somebody that your recommendation is reasonable and wise, you have to give reasons and quote known examples and authorities. | |
| He travels about the world gathering facts about little known countries. | |
| Football is the most known sport in the world. | |
| In the tenth century, the city of Shiraz already held a library that reputedly featured a copy of every known book at the time. | |
| There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. | |
| verb | |
| Four whole months, after which he took advantage of a little-known, little-invoked regulation that allowed him to desert his "band of brothers". |
|
| Since the "Sea Tigers" of the LTTE, better known as the Tamil Tigers, are the ones who rule the Andaman Sea: they carry the arms and drugs for their own use and also to deliver to rebels in Aceh and all along the east coast of Africa. |
|
| All three are extremist Taliban or their allies and known to be living in Pakistan. |
|
| Kayani is well known and liked in Kabul as during the last year he led the Pakistani delegation in the tripartite military meetings with the Afghan and US military on issues related to border issues. |
|
| Small polygamous groups have existed in the southwestern US under the watchful yet fairly benign eye of authorities ever since a sect known as the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) separated itself from mainstream Mormonism in 1890. |
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| Zawahiri was associated with a faction of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad known as the Vanguards of Conquest. |
|
| On August 9, 2004, it was announced that in the Spring of 2001, a man named El-Shukrijumah, also known as Jafar the Pilot, who was part of a "second wave," had been casing New York City helicopters. |
|
| The islamist had been released from Egyptian prison and had known Zawahiri well for many years. |
|
| The CIA has known of Zawahiri's plans to use anthrax for a half decade. |
|
| In Fall 2004, MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reports that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had Ames that was a match from 16 to 4 but cannot rule out that it was made overseas. |
|
| There still is a very hot pursuit of the "Atta-level" Floridian, Adnan El Shukrijumah, who Siddiqui is thought to have known and been assisting. |
|
| It has long been known Osama Bin Laden was interested in using cropdusters to disperse biological agents (since the testimony of millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam). |
|
| The suspicion was founded on many false premises, and there was no reliable publicly known evidence indicating his guilt. |
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| we are collecting a premium up front and their total cost is known up front. |
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| Seeing that you're not surprised, I think you must have known. | |
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| He is always in the know. |
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| Soldiers with vital training and know-how are refusing to re-enlist. |
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