instructor instructor /n strktə/ noun a teacher, especially of a sport instrument instrument / nstrυmənt/ noun a piece staff have instruments which measure the flow of electricity.. i
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bullying in our local school 쑗 In this
in-stance, we will pay for the damage 앳
for instance as an example 쑗 Why
don’t you take up a new sport – golf, for
instance?
instant
instant / nstənt/ noun a moment or
sec-ond 쑗 For an instant, he stood still and
watched the policemen 쐽 adjective
you instant access to your money.
instantly
instantly / nstəntli/ adverb so soon
af-ter an event that no time appears to have
passed in between
instead
instead /n sted/, instead of adverb in
would you like some tea instead? 쑗 If
you can’t go, can I go instead? 쑗 I’m
going instead of him, because he’s ill 쑗
Instead of stopping when the police
of-ficer shouted, he ran away.
institute
institute /
are proposing to set up a new institute of
education 쑗 She goes to the research
institute’s library every week.
institution
institution /nst
organisation or society set up for a
which houses criminals 2 a permanent
cream teas and the royal family 쑗 The
lottery has rapidly become a national
institution 3 the process of setting
action against the president
instruct
instruct /n strkt/ verb to show
were all instructed in the use of the fire
safety equipment.
instruction
instruction /n strkʃən/ noun 1 a
statement telling someone what they
must do 2 something which explains
She gave us detailed instructions how to
get to the church.
instructor
instructor /n strktə/ noun a teacher,
especially of a sport
instrument
instrument / nstrυmənt/ noun a piece
staff have instruments which measure
the flow of electricity.
insult
insult 1 / nslt/ noun a rude word said to
the government 쑗 The crowd shouted insults at the police.
insult
insult 2 /n slt/ verb to say rude things
in-sulting the president’s wife.
insulting
insulting /n sltŋ/ adjective rude 쑗
I’m used to hearing insulting things about my business.
insurance
insurance /n ʃυərəns/ noun an agree-ment with a company by which you are paid money for loss or damage in return
you have insurance for your travel?
intelligence
intelligence /n teld"əns/ noun 1 the
telligence is well above average 2
in-formation provided by the secret
servic-es 쑗 Intelligence gathered by our net-work of agents is very useful to us in planning future strategy.
intelligent
intelligent /n teld"ənt/ adjective able
to understand and learn things very well
쑗 He’s the most intelligent child in his class.
intense
intense /n tens/ adjective very strong
in-tense activity to try to finish the work be-fore they went on holiday 쑗 She had an intense period of study before the ex-ams.
intention
intention /n tenʃən/ noun an aim or
inten-tion of going to the party 쑗 The fans came with the deliberate intention of making trouble.
interest
interest / ntrəst/ noun 1 special
in-terest in politics 쑗 He has no interest in what his sister is doing 쑗 Why doesn’t
he take more interest in local affairs? 2.
interest is canoeing 쑗 List your special
interests on your CV 3 a payment made
accounts pay more interest 쑗 How much interest do I have to pay if I bor-row £1000? 쐽 verb to attract someone 쑗
He’s particularly interested in old cars.
쑗 Nothing seems to interest him very much 쑗 The book didn’t interest me at
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all 쑗 He tried to interest several
com-panies in his new invention.
interested
interested / ntrəstd/ adjective with a
interested in old churches 쑗 She’s
in-terested in crime fiction.
interesting
interesting / ntrəstŋ/ adjective
There’s an interesting article in the
newspaper on European football 쑗 She
didn’t find the TV programme very
in-teresting 쑗 What’s so interesting about
old cars? – I find them dull.
interfere
interfere /ntə fə/ verb 왍 to interfere
in or with something to get in the way
of something, to be involved in
some-thing in such a way that it does not work
in his private life 쑗 Stop interfering
with the TV controls.
interference
interference /ntə fərəns/ noun 1 an
involvement with someone else’s life or
his travel plans annoyed him 2 a noise
which affects radio or TV programmes
interjection
interjection /ntə d"ekʃən/ noun an
exclamation, a word used to show an
emotion such as surprise
intermittent
intermittent /ntə mt(ə)nt/ adjective
stopping and starting in an irregular way
쑗 Intermittent showers are expected
over the weekend.
internal
internal /n
international
international /ntə nʃ(ə)nəl/
internation-al conference on the environment 쑗 an
important international company 쐽
noun a sportsperson who has played for
his or her country’s team against
internationals in our local team.
Internet
Internet / ntənet/ noun an international
network allowing people to exchange
information on computers using
the Internet to hundreds of users of our
products 쑗 He searched the Internet for
information on cheap plane tickets.
interpret
interpret /n
what someone is saying into a different
he will interpret for us.
interpretation
interpretation /n teʃ(ə)n/
many interpretations 쑗 The book puts quite a different interpretation on the
meaning of the rule 2 the act of
trans-lating what someone is saying into a
dif-ferent language 3 a way of playing a
mu-sicians were praised for their interpre-tations of Bach.
interrupt
interrupt /ntə rpt/ verb to start
Ex-cuse me for interrupting, but have you seen the office keys anywhere?
interruption
interruption /ntə rpʃən/ noun something that interrupts or stops you from working
interval
interval / ntəv(ə)l/ noun 1 a period of
time between two events or points in
during the morning, but it will rain in the afternoon 쑗 There will be a short interval during which the table will be
cleared 2 a period of time between two
won’t be allowed in until the first inter-val.
interview
interview / sation between a famous or interesting person and a journalist, broadcast on
She gave an interview to the Sunday
magazine 2 a formal meeting in which
one or more people ask you questions to find out if you are suitable for some-thing such as a particular job or a course
for interview 쑗 He’s had eight inter-views, but still no job offers 쑗 When will you attend your first interview? 쐽
verb 1 to ask a famous or interesting
person questions about themselves and their work in order to publish or
in-terviewed the Prime Minister 2 to meet
a person who is applying for something such as a job or a place on a university
We interviewed ten candidates, but did not find anyone we liked.
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into
into /
used for showing movement towards the
fell into the lake 쑗 Put the cards back
into their box 쑗 You can’t get ten
peo-ple into a taxi 쑗 We all stopped talking
when he came into the room 쑗 The bus
is going into the town centre 2 hitting
a lamp post 3 used for showing a
frog 쑗 Water turns into steam when it is
heated 4 used for showing that you are
into ten equal pieces.
introduce
introduce /ntrə
someone another person’s name when
intro-duced me to a friend of his called Anne.
쑗 She introduced me to her new teacher.
introduction
introduction /ntrə dkʃən/ noun 1 a
part at the beginning of a book which
the introduction which gives an
expla-nation of the book’s layout 2 a book
which gives basic information about a
intro-duction to mathematics.
invent
invent /n vent/ verb 1 to create a new
invent-ed a new type of computer terminal 쑗
Who invented this indexing system? 2.
him why he was late he invented some
story about the train not arriving.
invention
invention /n venʃən/ noun 1 the act of
creating a new process or a new
made possible by developments in
elec-tronics 2 a machine or process that
someone has invented
inventor
inventor /n ventə/ noun a person who
invents new processes or new machines
invest
invest /n vest/ verb 1 to use your
mon-ey for buying things such as property or
shares in a company, so that you will
in-vest in government bonds 쑗 He invested
all his money in a fish-and-chip
restau-rant 2 to spend money on something
have invested in a new fridge.
investigate
investigate /n vest'et/ verb to try to
detec-tive is investigating the details of the case 쑗 We are investigating the possi-bility of going to live abroad.
investigation
investigation /n vest 'eʃ(ə)n/ noun
investi-gation into the causes of the crash
invisible
invisible /n vzb(ə)l/ adjective which
writ-ten in invisible ink and hidden inside the pages of a book.
invitation
invitation /nv teʃ(ə)n/ noun a letter
or card, asking someone to do
an invitation to his sister’s wedding 쑗
She had an invitation to dinner.
invite
invite /n vat/ verb to ask someone to do something, especially to come to a
two hundred people to the party 쑗 She invited us to come in 쑗 She’s been
invit-ed to talk to the club.
invoice
invoice / nvɔs/ noun a note sent to ask
invoice dated November 10th has still not been paid 쑗 They sent in their in-voice six weeks late 쑗 Ask the sales as-sistant to make out an invoice for £250.
involve
involve /n vɒlv/ verb 1 to include
someone or something in an activity or
teams from ten different countries 쑗 We want to involve the local community in the decision about the bypass 쑗 Mem-bers of the local council are involved in the company which has won the
con-tract for the new road 2 to make an
from here involves taking a bus and then the train.
inwards
inwards / nwədz/ adverb towards the
Ireland
Ireland / aələnd/ noun a large island forming the western part of the British Isles, containing the Republic of Ireland
found all over Ireland.
Irish
Irish / arʃ/ adjective referring to Ireland
쑗 The Irish Sea lies between Ireland and Britain.
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iron
쑗 The old gates are made of iron (NOTE:
no plural in this sense: some iron,
lumps of iron, pieces of iron) 2 an
ob-ject with a flat metal bottom, which is
heated and used to make clothes smooth
there – it will burn the clothes 쑗 If your
iron is not hot enough it won’t take the
creases out 쐽 verb to make cloth
shirts when the telephone rang 쑗 Her
skirt doesn’t look as if it has been
ironed.
irresponsible
irresponsible /r spɒnsb(ə)l/
adjec-tive acting or done in a way that shows a
lack of good sense
irritable
irritable / rtəb(ə)l/ adjective easily
snapped at the children.
irritate
irritate / rtet/ verb to make someone
when the trains run late.
irritation
irritation /r teʃ(ə)n/ noun a feeling
watched with irritation as he tried to fix
the wheel again.
is
island
island / alənd/ noun a piece of land
little island in the middle of the river 쑗
The Greek islands are favourite holiday
destinations.
issue
issue /
issue of identity cards has been delayed.
bought the January issue of the
maga-zine 쐽 verb 1 to make something
be issued next week 2 to give
issued with a gun 3 to come out 쑗
Smoke began to issue from the hole in
the ground.
it
What do you want me to do with the box? – Put it down 쑗 Where’s the box? – It’s here 쑗 She picked up a potato and then dropped it on the ground 쑗 I put
my book down somewhere and now I can’t find it 쑗 Where’s the newspaper?
– It’s on the chair 2 used for talking
about the weather, the date or time or
snow-ing 쑗 It’s miles from here to the railway station 쑗 Is it the 30th today? 쑗 It’s al-most impossible to get a ticket at this time of year 쑗 What time is it? – It’s ten o’clock 쑗 It’s dangerous to use an elec-tric saw when it’s wet (NOTE: It’s = it is
or it has Do not confuse with its.)
IT
itch
the middle of my back that’s driving me mad! (NOTE: The plural is itches.) 쐽
The cream made his skin itch more than before.
item
쑗 We are discussing item four on the agenda 쑗 Please find enclosed an order for the following items from your cata-logue 쑗 I couldn’t buy several items on the shopping list because the shop had sold out.
its
can’t use the car – one of its tyres is flat.
쑗 The company pays its staff very badly.
it’s
itself
itself /t self/ pronoun 1 used for
dog seems to have hurt itself 쑗 The
screw had worked itself loose 2 used
there must be something wrong with the computer itself.
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jab
the piece of meat with his fork 쑗 She
jabbed me in the back with her
umbrel-la (NOTE: jabs – jabbing – jabbed)
jack
used the jack to lift the car up and take
the wheel off 2 (in playing cards) the
card with the face of a young man, with
I won because I had the jack of hearts.
jacket
jacket / d"kt/ noun a short coat 쑗 He
was wearing a blue jacket and brown
trousers 쑗 Take your jacket off if you
are hot 쑗 This orange jacket shows up
in the dark when I ride my bike.
jail
to jail for three months 쐽verb to put
six years.
jam
you want jam or honey on your bread?
쑗 We made jam with the fruit in the
gar-den 쑗 Have you any more jam – the jar
is empty? 2 a situation in which too
jam 쑗 There is a paper jam in the
pa-per has jammed in the printer 2 to
try to jam all those boxes into the car
boot 쑗 The switchboard was jammed
with calls (NOTE: jams – jamming –
jammed)
January
January / d"njuəri/ noun the first
month of the year, followed by February
쑗 He was born on January 26th 쑗 It’s
his birthday on January 26 쑗 We never
go on holiday in January because it’s
too cold 쑗 We all went skiing last
Janu-ary (NOTE: January 26th or January
26: say ‘the twenty-sixth of January’ or
‘January the twenty-sixth’; American English: ‘January twenty-sixth’.)
jar
jar /
was some honey left in the bottom of the jar 쑗 Use a jam jar for the water you collect.
jargon
jargon / language used by a trade or profession
are confused by computers because they don’t understand the jargon.
jaw
jaw / which hold the teeth and form the mouth
jazz
strong rhythm, and in which the players often make the music up as they play; jazz was first played in the southern United States
jealous
jealous / d"eləs/ adjective feeling an-noyed because you want something
was jealous of Mark because all the girls fancied him 쑗 She was jealous of his new car 쑗 Her new boyfriend is very handsome – I’m jealous!
jeans
jeans /
She came into the office in jeans 쑗 He bought a new pair of jeans.
jelly
jelly / d"eli/ noun a type of sweet food made with fruit, which shakes when you
fish fingers and chips followed by jelly and ice-cream (NOTE: The plural is
jel-lies.)
jerk
He felt a jerk on the fishing line 쐽 verb
to suddenly pull something hard, often
rope.
jersey
jersey / clothing which covers the top part of
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knitting a pink jersey for the new baby.
players swapped jerseys with the other
team.
jet
flames 2 an aircraft with jet engines 쑗
Jets flew low overhead.
jet engine
jet engine / d"et end"n/ noun an
en-gine which gets its power from a stream
of gas
jewel
jewel /
such as a diamond
jewellery
jewellery /
you wear as decoration round your
neck, fingers, etc., made from things
such as valuable stones, gold and silver
쑗 The burglar stole all her jewellery.
jigsaw
a picture made of shaped pieces of wood
or cardboard that you have to try to fit
in-doors and try to do this huge jigsaw of
the Houses of Parliament.
job
a job in the local supermarket 쑗 When
the factory closed, hundreds of people
lost their jobs 2 a specific piece of
cou-ple of jobs I want you to do 쑗 He does
all sorts of little electrical jobs around
the house 3 difficulty (informal) 쑗 I
had a job trying to find your house 쑗
What a job it was getting a hotel room at
the time of the music festival!
jog
the river bank for two miles 쑗 She was
listening to her personal stereo as she
was jogging 2 to push someone or
my elbow and I spilt my drink (NOTE:
jogs – jogging – jogged) 앳 to jog
someone’s memory to make someone
hoping that the film from the security
camera will jog people’s memories.
join
Go on for about two hundred metres, until the road joins the motorway 쑗 The two rivers join about four kilometres
be-yond the town 2 to become a member
university, he is going to join the police.
쑗 She joined the army because she
wanted to travel 3 to do something
cup of coffee – would you like to join us?
쑗 Won’t you join us for a game of golf?
joint
joint /d"ɔnt/ noun 1 a place where
bones come together and can move,
el-bow joint hurt after her game of tennis.
was very tender 쑗 We all sat round the table while Father carved the joint 쐽
adjective combined, with two or more things connected together
joke
down his neck as a joke 쑗 They all laughed at his jokes 쑗 He told jokes all evening.
journal
journal / you write details of things that have happened which you want to remember
쑗 He kept a journal during his visit to China 쑗 She wrote a journal of the gradual progress of her illness.
journalism
journalism / profession of writing for newspapers or magazines, or reporting on events for ra-dio or TV
journalist
journalist / who writes for newspapers or maga-zines, or reports on events for radio or
TV 쑗 Journalists asked the policeman some very awkward questions 쑗 Film stars were greeted by journalists from around the world at the première of the new film.
journey
journey / when you travel somewhere, usually a
journey from here 쑗 They went on a train journey across China 쑗 She has a difficult journey to work every day – she has to change buses twice.
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joy
The birth of our baby son filled us with
joy.
judge
judge /d"d"/ noun 1 a person whose
job is to make legal decisions in a court
but the judge let him off with a small
fine 2 a person who decides who
judges of the beauty contest couldn’t
agree 쐽 verb to make decisions in
situ-ations such as a court of law or a
painting was judged the best and she
won first prize.
judgment
judgment / d"d"mənt/, judgement
noun 1 a legal decision by a judge or
judg-ment 2 the ability to make good
in everything.
jug
han-dle, used for pouring liquids
juice
juice /
£1 for two glasses of orange juice 쑗 She
had a glass of grapefruit juice for
break-fast.
juicy
juicy /
July
July 23 쑗 We went to Spain last July 쑗
July is always one of the busiest months
for holidays (NOTE: July 23rd or July
23: say ‘July the twenty-third’ or ‘the
twenty-third of July’; American
Eng-lish: ‘July twenty-third’.)
jump
higher than she thought and she hurt
her leg 쐽verb 1 to go suddenly into
Quick, jump on that bus – it’s going to
Oxford Circus! 쑗 The horse jumped
over the fence 쑗 She jumped down from
the chair 2 to make a sudden
jumped when I came up behind her
qui-etly 쑗 When they fired the gun, it made
me jump.
jumper
jumper / d"mpə/ noun a warm piece of clothing, usually made of wool, which covers the top part of your body and your arms
junction
junction / d"ŋkʃən/ noun a place
as far as the next junction and you will see the library on your right 쑗 Leave the motorway at Junction 5.
June
June /
쑗 Last June we had a holiday in
Cana-da (NOTE: June 17th or June 17: say
‘June the seventeenth’ or ‘the seven-teenth of June’ or in US English: ‘June seventeenth’.)
jungle
jungle / d"ŋ'əl/ noun an area of thick tropical forest which is difficult to travel through
junior
junior /
jun-ior choir 쑗 He plays for the junior
hock-ey team.
junk
should throw away all that junk you keep under your bed (NOTE: no plural)
just
too much sugar? – No, it’s just right 쑗
Thank you, that’s just what I was look-ing for 쑗 Just how many of students have got computers? 쑗 What time is it? – It’s just seven o’clock 쑗 He’s just
fif-teen – his birthday was yesterday 2.
has just arrived from Paris 쑗 She had just got into her bath when the phone
rang 3 only 쑗 We’re just good friends, nothing more 쑗 I’ve been to Berlin just once.
justice
justice / d"sts/ noun fair treatment in
law 쑗 Justice must always be seen to be done.
justify
justify / d"stfa/ verb to show that something is fair, to prove that
spending all that money? 쑗 How can you justify your behaviour? (NOTE:
jus-tifies – justifying – justified)
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keen
Bats have a keen sense of hearing.
keep
keep /
I borrowed from you? 쑗 I don’t want
that book any more, you can keep it 쑗
The police kept my gun and won’t give it
back 2. to continue to do something 쑗
The clock kept going even after I
dropped it on the floor 쑗 He had to keep
smiling so that people would think he
was pleased 쑗 Keep quiet or they’ll
hear you 쑗 Luckily the weather kept
fine for the fair 쑗 The food will keep
warm in the oven 3 to have or to put
my car keys in my pocket 쑗 Where do
you keep the paper for the laser printer?
an-imals in cages 쑗 I was kept late at the
office 쑗 They kept us waiting for half an
hour 쑗 We put the plates in the oven to
keep them warm 5 to stay 쑗 Keep close
to me (NOTE: keeps – keeping – kept
keep down phrasal verb 1 to keep at a
police will hear us! 2 to bend down in
down behind the wall so that they won’t
see us.
keep off phrasal verb not to walk on
keep on phrasal verb to continue to do
keep out phrasal verb 1 to stop
people to keep their dogs out of the field
where the lambs are 2 not to go in 쑗
There were ‘Keep Out!’ notices round
the building site 3 not to get involved
쑗 He kept out of the quarrel 쑗 Try to keep out of trouble with the police.
keep up with /
verb to go at the same speed as someone
쑗 My foot hurts, that’s why I can’t keep
up with the others 쑗 His salary hasn’t kept up with the cost of living.
kerb
kerb / along the side of a road
ketchup
ketchup / ketʃəp/ noun a type of tomato sauce
kettle
kettle / ket(ə)l/ noun a container used for boiling water
key
key / that you use to open a lock or to start a
car 쑗 I can’t start the car, I’ve lost the key 쑗 Where did you put the front door
key? 2 one of the moving parts which
you push down with your fingers on a typewriter, a computer or a musical
always sticks 쑗 There are 64 keys on
the keyboard 3 a system of musical
the key of F major 쐽 adjective most
the goalkeeper 쑗 The key person in the company is the sales manager 쑗 Oil is
a key industry.
keyboard
keyboard /
on something such as a computer or
pi-ano 쑗 She spilled her coffee on the com-puter keyboard 쑗 He practises on the keyboard every day 쐽 verb to put infor-mation into a computer using a
fig-ures.
kick
gave the ball a kick 2 a feeling of
watch-ing a football match on TV 쐽 verb to hit
the ball into the net 쑗 She kicked her lit-tle brother.
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kid
There were a few school kids on their
bi-cycles 쑗 They’re married with two kids.
some-one believe something which is not true
쑗 Are you kidding? 쑗 She tried to kid me
that she’d had an accident (NOTE: kids
– kidding – kidded)
kidnap
kidnap / kdnp/ verb to take someone
away illegally and keep them prisoner
kid-napped)
kidney
kidney / kdni/ noun one of a pair of
or-gans in animals that clean the blood and
remove waste from it
kill
the plane crash 쑗 A long period of dry
weather could kill all the crops.
kilo
plural is kilos.)
kilogram
kilogram / klə'rm/ noun a measure
of weight equal to one thousand grams
kilometre
kilometre / klə
of distance equal to one thousand
me-tres
kind
help-ful 쑗 It’s very kind of you to offer to
help 쑗 How kind of you to invite him to
your party! 쑗 You should always be kind
to little children 쑗 He’s a kind old
gen-tleman 쐽 noun a type 쑗 A butterfly is a
kind of insect 쑗 We have several kinds
of apples in our garden 쑗 We discussed
all kinds of things 앳 of a kind similar
쑗 The three sisters are three of a kind 앳
it’s nothing of the kind that’s not
when she told me that.
kindness
kindness / kandnəs/ noun 1 the
his kindness 2 a kind act
king
queen came to visit the town (NOTE:
king is spelt with a capital letter when
used with a name or when referring to
a particular person: King Henry VIII.)
man, coming before the ace and after
win when he drew the king of spades.
kingdom
kingdom / kŋdəm/ noun 1 the land
is part of the United Kingdom 쑗 He gave her a book of fairy stories about a
magic kingdom 2 a part of the world of
kiss
some-one with your lips to show that you are pleased to see them or that you like them
쑗 She gave the baby a kiss 쐽verb to touch someone with your lips to show that you are pleased to see them or that
and walked away 쑗 They kissed each other goodbye.
kit
bring your tennis kit?
kitchen
kitchen / ktʃn/ noun a room where you
on the kitchen table 쑗 If you’re hungry, have a look in the kitchen to see if there’s anything to eat.
kite
and paper or cloth which is flown in the
fly-ing his kite from the top of the hill.
kitten
kitten / kt(ə)n/ noun a young cat
knack
knack /nk/ noun an ability or tendency
to do something, often something
talking to strangers 쑗 He has this knack
of accidentally offending people.
knee
knee / where the upper and the lower leg join,
on her knee 쑗 He was on his knees
looking under the bed 2 the part of a
My jeans have holes in both knees.
kneel
kneel /
kneeled or knelt /nelt/)
knew
knew /
knife
knife /naf/ noun an instrument used for cutting, with a sharp metal blade fixed
spoon for each person 쑗 You need a sharp knife to cut meat (NOTE: The
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back during the fight (NOTE: knifes –
knifing – knifed)
knit
by joining threads together using two
a pullover 쑗 She was wearing a blue
knitted hat (NOTE: knits – knitting –
knit or knitted)
knives
knives /navz/ plural of knife
knob
open the door, just turn the knob 2 a
round object which you turn to operate
in-crease the volume.
knock
knock /nɒk/ noun a sound made by
knock at the door 쐽 verb to hit
You’ll need a heavy hammer to knock
that nail in.
knock down phrasal verb 1 to make
to knock down the old house to build a
factory 2 to hit someone or something
쑗 She was knocked down by a car 3 to
down to £50.
knock out phrasal verb to hit someone
so hard that they are no longer
on the head.
knot
string, rope, or other fibre, twisted and
sup-posed to be able to tie knots 쑗 Is the
knot of my tie straight? 2 a measure of
ship was doing 22 knots when she hit the rocks 쑗 There’s a wind speed of 60 knots.
know
thing, to have information about
computer? 쑗 He didn’t know she had died 쑗 How was I to know she wasn’t his wife? 쑗 You knew it would be expen-sive 쑗 Do you know the Spanish for
‘one – two – three’? 쑗 His secretary
doesn’t know where he is 2 to have met
at school together 쑗 I used to know a man called Peter Jones who worked in
your company 3 to have been to a place
doesn’t know Germany at all (NOTE:
knows – knowing – knew / has known)
knowledge
knowledge / nɒld"/ noun the general
No encyclopedia can contain all human knowledge.
known
known /nəυn/ past participle of know
knuckle
knuckle / nk(ə)l/ noun a part where two bones join in a finger
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