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Adjective knowing has 4 senses

knowing, wise, wise to - evidencing the possession of inside information
Antonym: uninformed (indirect, via informed)
deliberate, intentional, knowing, willful, wilful - by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"
Antonym: unintended (indirect, via intended)
aware, knowing, knowledgeable - alert and fully informed; "politically aware"; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "the most...technically aware of the novelists under thirty"- W.S.Graham; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
Antonym: uninformed (indirect, via informed)
enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read - highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"
Antonym: uneducated (indirect, via educated)

Noun knowing has 1 sense

knowing - clear and certain mental apprehension
--₁ is a kind of higher cognitive process
--₁ has particulars:
awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness; cognizance, ken; prevision, foresight, prospicience; understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy

Derived form: verb know₁

Verb know has 11 senses

know, cognize, cognise - 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"
Antonyms: ignore

Derived forms: noun knower₁, noun knowing₁
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue know
know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
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"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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"
Sample sentence:
They know themselves
know, experience, live - 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"
--₅ is one way to experience, undergo, see, go through
Sample sentence:
These men know the river
acknowledge, recognize, recognise, know - accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority; "The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne"; "We do not recognize your gods"
--₆ is one way to accept
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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?"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
--₈ is one way to copulate, mate, pair, couple
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
know - know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"
--₉ is one way to recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
know - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"
--₁₀ is one way to distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
know - perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"
--₁₁ is one way to remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody