knew

noun

Knowledge; the state of knowing. (Now confined to the fixed phrase in the know.)

Alternative form of knowe (“hill, knoll”). [(chiefly Scotland and Ulster) A small hill; a knoll.]

(rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.

verb

(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.

(transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.

(intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.

(intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.

To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.

(transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

(transitive) To experience.

(transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.

(transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.

(transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).

(transitive) To have indexed and have information about within one's database.

(transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.

(transitive, archaic, biblical, euphemistic) To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to 'know someone in the biblical sense' or to 'know biblically'.

(intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).

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