KNOWN


Meaning of KNOWN in English

I.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be known to exist

Seven copies of the original book are still known to exist.

best known

He’s perhaps best known for his role in ‘Midnight Cowboy’.

better known

Potter is better known for his TV work.

collectively known as

Rain, snow, and hail are collectively known as precipitation.

for reasons best known to sb (= used when you do not understand someone’s behaviour )

For reasons best known to herself, she decided to sell the house.

formerly known as

Kiribati, formerly known as the Gilbert Islands

generally regarded/accepted/known etc

The plants are generally regarded as weeds.

a generally accepted view

internationally famous/recognized/known etc

an internationally famous sculptor

known to man

This is one of the worst diseases known to man.

little known/understood etc (= not known about by many people )

a little known corner of the world

no known cure

At present is there is no known cure for this virus.

popularly known as

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is popularly known as the Mormon Church.

sb/sth has never been known to do sth (= used to say that something is strange because it has never happened before )

Max had never been known to leave home without telling anyone.

variously described as/known as/called etc sth

the phenomena variously known as ‘mass culture’, ‘popular culture’, or the ‘public arts’

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I might have known/guessed etc

All those years I might have known her!

Although I might have known you'd arrive just as drinks were being ordered!

Dear little Papa, as I might have known!

If you'd had a big fat bottom I might have guessed.

It was nothing I might have guessed.

Of course, I might have known that you'd have some clever way of dealing with everything, though.

Ooh! I might have known it!

Some years before, I might have guessed Bond's enigmatic presence in the scene.

I've known sb/sth to do sth

if (the) truth be known/told

After all, I am not so different from anyone else, if the truth be known.

He could never, if the truth were told, stand against his wife.

He looked lonely, if the truth were told.

I bet they did it worse than us if the truth was known.

I puzzle a lot, if the truth be known.

I suppose if the truth was known, I was narked at being pushed around.

Nearly thirteen and a half if the truth be known.

You'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known, wouldn't you?

let it be known/make it known (that)

make yourself heard/understood/known etc

As we will soon see, the inability to make oneself understood properly was at the root of the crisis in Vicos.

But only one side was making itself heard.

Hardly a practicable solution when she didn't even know if she could make herself understood.

He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.

I yelled to make myself heard above the deafening roar of the wind and the sea.

To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known.

Yet lay people had almost no way of making themselves heard in Rome.

make yourself known (to sb)

He makes himself known with a tiny, metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes.

Jaq daydreamed about a subsequent year when Baal Firenze had first made himself known .

My superior self was working out a way to approach and make myself known .

To leave was to admit defeat in this peculiar ritual of making myself known .

With that you will make yourself known .

Your five minutes only start when you make yourself known .

otherwise known as

Global warming is otherwise known as the greenhouse effect.

Area 17, for example, is otherwise known as the primary visual area.

During that pilgrimage, they lived in tents and booths, otherwise known as sukkot.

It is otherwise known as delegated legislation.

It was a control on monetary hanky-panky, otherwise known as inflation.

The best explanation for this is the so-called rebound effect, otherwise known as acute tolerance.

sb/sth is not known to be sth

This species is not known to be vicious.

It is not known to be propagated vegetatively at all and can only be reproduced from seeds.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

best

Pecorino, Feta and Manchego are the best known of the remaining ewes' milk cheeses.

One of the best known is Richard Long.

The best known is County Pot.

Malaria: discovery by committee Perhaps the best known of all recent antimalarial drugs is chloroquine.

Pat Young is one of the province's best known fashion mavericks.

The best known of them was Dornford Yates, author of the now unreadable but once hugely read Berry and Co stories.

Bracken is probably the best known of the ferns.

The topic of sexism in language is probably the best known of all feminist linguistic concerns.

better

His career shows many parallels with that of the better known Charles Turner Thackrah, but evidence of association is lacking.

In addition, prefixes are used to indicate that a particular rug was woven by a sub-group of a better known major group.

commonly

Here are some of the most commonly known services.

internationally

The 48-year-old professor, an internationally known languages expert and former vice-chancellor of Essex University, is due in court in October.

I am credited as the internationally known journalist and writer.

Several of the professors were internationally known figures who lectured to large audiences and engaged in public debates over controversial issues.

little

But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates.

Although they are little known and infrequently seen, they are enormously abundant.

well

There are at least five well known approaches: 1 Tell and sell.

The opening was a well known variation of the Ruy Lopez.

Other even less well known players?

Sainsbury's were well known Wholesale Grocers with a head office at Trowbridge.

There followed the address of a well known gentlemen's club in Victoria.

Joseph Haydn, whom he revered above all other contemporaries; and a few others less well known today.

There are 1446 main shopping areas covering all well known centres down to the level of small local centres.

Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity.

■ NOUN

address

Patients were contacted at their last known address .

General Accident may cancel this policy by sending seven days notice by recorded delivery to your last known address .

fact

His little screen recapitulates the few known facts .

It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do.

It is a generally known fact that here our bow is at a very high tension.

The proceedings taken under these Acts provide many of the known facts concerning enclosures and depopulation.

Much of this chapter is hypothesis, but hypothesis based on known facts .

It's a well known fact , however, that good design lasts for ever.

Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me.

This is supposedly a well known fact in certain circles.I heard it from a segment of this circle.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a known drug dealer

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It was also in Edessa that the oldest known church was built, then destroyed in A.D. 201.

Pat Young is one of the province's best known fashion mavericks.

These are the truly intractable pains and they are called intractable because they respond to no known form of therapy.

This work organised the known theory of permutation groups and its relationship with Galois Theory.

Typically for the period the quantity of finished products is far greater than the known examples of production sites.

What might be acceptable would be to sample known previous offenders.

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