· a clear and certain mental apprehension

Hypernym(s): higher_cognitive_process

· 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"

Synonym(s): cognize, cognise

Antonym(s): ignore

· know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"

· 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"

· 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"

· 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"

Synonym(s): experience, live

Hypernym(s): experience, see, go_through

· 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"

Synonym(s): acknowledge, recognize, recognise

Hypernym(s): accept

· have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"

· have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

Synonym(s): sleep_together, roll_in_the_hay, love, make_out, make_love, sleep_with, get_laid, have_sex, 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

Hypernym(s): copulate, mate, pair, couple

· know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"

Hypernym(s): recognize, recognise, realize, realise, agnize, agnise

· be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"

Hypernym(s): distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell_apart

· perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"

Hypernym(s): remember, retrieve, recall, call_back, call_up, recollect, think

· evidencing the possession of inside information

Synonym(s): wise, wise_to

· characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing act of fraud"; "a deliberate attempt to provoke a response"

Synonym(s): intentional, deliberate

· alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"

Synonym(s): knowledgeable

· highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"

Synonym(s): knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read