| 单词 | to knock together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto knock together to knock together 1. transitive. To drive or bring into collision or contact. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > cause to impinge > bring into collision smitea1398 to knock together1398 to strike together1398 collide1621 1398 [implied in: J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vii. v. lf. 49/2 Grysbating and knokking togedres of teeþ. (at knocking n. 1b)]. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Jer. li. 20 Thou doest knocke together the vessels of warre. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. i. 110 Let vs knog our praines together to be reuenge on..the Host of the Garter. View more context for this quotation 2. intransitive. To come into collision. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide hurtle1340 to strike together1340 thrusta1400 fray1483 concura1522 shock1575 to knock together1641 intershock1650 bulgea1676 collide1700 rencounter1712 clash1715 ding1874 bonk1947 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 209 Two pots floting upon a pond,..with this word, If we knock together, we sink together. a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 44 Our heads knockt together. 3. transitive. To put together, or construct, hastily, rudely, as for a temporary purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together patcha1529 to shuffle up1532 rash1570 bepiece1578 cobble1589 consarcinate1610 to clap upa1616 clap1649 to knock up1683 patchwork1856 to fadge up1863 to knock together1874 fake1879 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ (1894) 612 It [the Cross] would..be..knocked together in the rudest fashion. 1893 K. L. Bates Eng. Relig. Drama 226 A temporary stage has been roughly knocked together. < as lemmas |
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