knock
belt
rap
whack
whang | the act of hitting vigorously, he gave the table a whack |
| knock on | (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) |
gin
gin rummy
knock rummy | a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less thanpoints |
field-effect transistor
FET | a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field |
hovercraft
ground-effect machine | a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines |
impression
effect | an outward appearance, he made a good impression, I wanted to create an impression of success, she retained that bold effect in her reproductions of the original painting |
| effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
knock
roast | negative criticism |
| law of effect | (psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences, behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated |
| effect | an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived), he just did it for effect |
| sound effect | an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play |
| special effect | an effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film) |
| stage effect | a special effect created on the stage |
effect
essence
burden
core
gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work |
| knock | a bad experience, the school of hard knocks |
| knock knocking | the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing), the knocking grew louder |
knock
bash
bang smash belt | a vigorous blow, the sudden knock floored him, he took a bash right in his face, he got a bang on the head |
consequence
effect
outcome
result
event issue
upshot | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon, the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise, his decision had depressing consequences for business, he acted very wise after the event |
| bandwagon effect | the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity, in periods of high merger activity there is a bandwagon effect with more and more firms seeking to engage in takeover activity, polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate |
| butterfly effect | the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago |
| coattails effect | (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party, he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election |
| Coriolis effect | (physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation, on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere |
| domino effect | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall) |
| knock-on effect | a secondary or incidental effect |
| placebo effect | any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo, the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do, pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs |
| position effect | (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome |
side effect
fallout | any adverse and unwanted secondary effect, a strategy to contain the fallout from the accounting scandal |
| ground effect | apparent increase in aerodynamic lift experienced by an aircraft flying close to the ground |
greenhouse effect
greenhouse warming | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere, caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth |
piezoelectricity
piezoelectric effect
piezo effect | electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt), alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal |
| skin effect | the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor |
Doppler effect
Doppler shift | change in the apparent frequency of a wave as observer and source move toward or away from each other |
| Tyndall effect | the phenomenon in which light is scattered by very small particles in its path, it makes a beam of light visible, the scattered light is mainly blue |
| effect | a symptom caused by an illness or a drug, the effects of sleep loss, the effect of the anesthetic |
| side effect | a secondary and usually adverse effect of a drug or therapy, severe headaches are one of the side effects of the drug |
knock-knee
genu valgum
tibia valga | an inward slant of the thigh |
impregnate
knock up
bang up
prang up | make pregnant, He impregnated his wife again |
| knock out | destroy or break forcefully, The windows were knocked out |
| blast knock down | shatter as if by explosion |
| drop knock off | stop pursuing or acting, drop a lawsuit, knock it off! |
| knock out | empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out, knocked out a pipe |
| knock out | eliminate, knock out a target |
| take effect | go into effect or become effective or operative, The new law will take effect next month |
knock criticize
criticise
pick apart | find fault with, express criticism of, point out real or perceived flaws, The paper criticized the new movie, Don't knock the food--it's free |
| knock strike hard | deliver a sharp blow or push :He knocked the glass clear across the room |
bump
knock | knock against with force or violence, My car bumped into the tree |
down
knock down cut down
push down
pull down | cause to come or go down, The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect, The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet |
run into
bump into
jar against
butt against knock against | collide violently with an obstacle, I ran into the telephone pole |
neutralize
neutralise
liquidate
waste
knock off
do in | get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing, The mafia liquidated the informer, the double agent was neutralized |
deck
coldcock
dump
knock down
floor | knock down with force, He decked his opponent |