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know

[noh] / noʊ /




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.

Example Sentences

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"I don't know how many of his peers would have known that he was a Muslim," Gilham said.

From BBC

"I have kind of, I don't know, just grown. I've learned a lot about myself. Not even anything to do with cricket."

From BBC

"I know that all the filmmakers, including myself, we are running to Middle East for any stories about Afghanistan," Sadat told AFP.

From Barron's

The studies were double-blind, meaning neither participants nor researchers knew who received statins or who received the comparison treatment, reducing the risk of bias.

From Science Daily

"We therefore know exactly in our experiments that the measured fluorescent signals originate from pyramidal cells of the cortical layers 2/3 and 5, which mediate communication within and between brain regions," says Jancke.

From Science Daily