-ics
/ɪks/suffix
(Forming nouns) denoting arts or sciences, branches of study or action: classics politics
Usage
A noun ending in -ics meaning ‘a subject of study or branch of knowledge’ will usually take a singular rather than a plural verb, e.g. politics is a blood sport; classics is hardly studied at all these days. However, the same word may take a plural verb in cases where the sense is plural: many of the classics were formerly regarded with disdain.
Origin
From French -iques, Latin -ica, or Greek -ika, plural forms.
- knock someone out
- knock someone over
- knock someone's block off
- knock someone sideways
- knock someone's socks off
- knock someone/thing about (or around)
- knock someone/thing into shape
- knock someone up
- knock something back
- knock something down
- knock something into a cocked hat
- knock something off
- knock something on the head
- knock something out
- knock something over
- knock something together
- knock something up
- knock spots off
- knock the bottom out of
- knock the socks off
- knock up
- knockwurst
- knodden
- knogged
- Knole sofa