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know

[noh, nou] / noʊ, naʊ /




Usage

What are other ways to say know? To know something is to be aware of it as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking.

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"We wanted to know if blinking was impacted by environmental factors and how it related to executive function," says lead author Pénélope Coupal, an Honours student at the Laboratory for Hearing and Cognition.

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In these systems, atoms would move through the circuit instead of electrons, an emerging area of research known as "atomtronics."

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They reflect real activity in your brain's touch-processing region, known as the somatosensory cortex.

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"Because glycans are known to restrain the immune response to cancer in multiple tumor types, we suspect our molecules could offer new and potentially more effective treatment options for many cancer patients."

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The Hațeg Basin in Transylvania has long been known around the world for its dinosaur fossils, uncovered at dozens of sites over the last hundred years.

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