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  1. transitive verb To perceive directly; grasp in the mind with clarity or certainty.
  2. transitive verb To regard as true beyond doubt: I know she won't fail.
  3. transitive verb To have a practical understanding of, as through experience; be skilled in: knows how to cook.
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  • The maharaja dislikes I did not know the Hindi word, so I used the English ingratitude Interesting. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
  • I imagine that guilt and the contempt of those in the know was almost as great a punishment to him as transportation was to his victim. —  Mary Balogh - Unforgiven
  • Also, if fivetodo or any1 in the know is around, iv still got my MOD90 id from when i was in the TA. should i take it with me to the office tomoro?? —  Army Rumour Service
  • But clever of LaBute to cast such talented yet relative unknowns as Wilson and Washington as his new homeowners: those moviegoers not in the know will be as fooled as Abel, perhaps, and will get the first of many shakeups just then. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • Those of us in the know are aware party discipline is a major agenda. —  You Missed This
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  1. Middle English knouen, from Old English cnāwan; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English knowen, knawen, cnowen, cnawen (preterit knew, kneuʒ, plural knewen, past participle knowen, cnowen, knawen), from Anglo-Saxon cnāwan (preterit cneów, past participle cnāwen) = Old High German cnāan,knāan,chnāan, cnāhan, know, = Icelandic knā, know how to do, be able, = Old Bulgarian znati, know, = Latin gno in noscere, orig. gnoscere (as in comp. co-gnoscere, i-gnoscere; perfect noti, past participle notus, in comp. gnotus) = Greek γνω in γιγνώσκειν, 2d aorist γνῶναι, know, = Sanskrit jnā, know: a secondary form of the root gan, Teutonic kan, in ken, know”, can, know, be able, etc. The forms in English derived from this secondary root are few (know, acknow, knowledge, acknowledge, and remotely name), but the forms from the primitive root kan are numerous: can, con, con, cunning, cunning, couth, uncouth, kith, kithe, ken, etc. The L. and Greek words from the secondary root are very numerous in English; e. g.: from Latin, agnize, cognize, cognition, incognito, ignore, noble, note, denote, notary, notion, cognomen, nominal, etc., ignominy, narrate. etc.; from the Greek, gnome, gnome, gnosil, gnostic, etc., synonym, etc.
 

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