different between knock vs bash

English

Etymology

From Middle English knocken, knokken, from Old English cnocian, ?ecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *knuk?n? (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *kneu- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge, Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /n?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

knock (countable and uncountable, plural knocks)

1. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

2. A sharp impact.

3. (figuratively) Criticism.
   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     Since forming in 2007 Mumford & Sons have hard-toured their way to a vast market for throaty folk that's strong on banjo and bass drum. They have released two enormous albums. But, wow, do they take some knocks back home.

4. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
5. (cricket) A batsman's innings.

6. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)

1. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
2. (transitive, colloquial) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.

3. (transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
4. (transitive, Britain, slang, dated) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.
5. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

     "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go."

6. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Yola

Noun

knock

1. Alternative form of knaugh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From a borrowing of Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”).

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

1. To strike heavily.

2. To collide.

3. To criticize harshly.

4. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.

Derived terms

• gay bash, gay-bash
• trans bash, trans-bash

Translations

Noun

bash (plural bashes)

1. (informal) A forceful blow or impact.

   He got a bash on the head.

2. (informal) A large party; a gala event.

   They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

3. (Britain, informal, often in the phrase 'have a bash') An attempt (at doing something).

   I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.

   This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.

Derived terms

• basher
• bashment
• on the bash
• megabash

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English baschen, baissen. See abash.

Verb

bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

References

Anagrams

• AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian baš (“exactly, just, right”), present in most Balkan languages. Mikloši? argued that the ultimate source is Turkish ba? (“head, leader”).

Adverb

bash

1. (used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) exactly, precisely, right

Etymology 2

From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.

Noun

bash m (indefinite plural bashë, definite singular bashi, definite plural bashët)

1. (nautical) bow (of ship)
2. center (of room or chamber)

Related terms

• ballë

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bashu

Etymology

Inherited from Latin b?si? (“I kiss”). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case s?ruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.

Verb

bash (past participle bãshatã)

1. I kiss.
2. I embrace

Synonyms

• (kiss): hiritsescu, gugustedz
• (embrace): ambrãtsitedz, ambrats

Related terms

• bãshari / bãshare
• bãshat
• dizbash
• spribash

Yola

Noun

bash

1. Alternative form of baush

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN