n.
1) to acquire, accumulate, gain ~
2) to demonstrate, display, show; flaunt, parade one's ~ (of a subject)
3) to communicate, disseminate; impart ~
4) to absorb, assimilate, soak up ~
5) ( esp. BE ) to bring smt. to smb.'s ~
6) to brush up (on) one's ~ (of a subject)
7) to deny ~ (of smt.)
8) direct; extensive; inside, intimate; intuitive; profound, thorough; rudimentary, slight, superficial ~
9) fluent; reading; speaking; working ~ (to have fluent ~ of English; to have reading/a reading ~ of several languages)
10) common ~
11) carnal ~ (to have carnal ~ of)
12) ~ about, of
13) the ~ to + inf. (she has enough ~ about the subject to write a good book)
14) the ~ that + clause (it is common ~ that he has spent time in prison)
15) to smb.'s ~ (to my ~, she has never been here)
16) ( esp. BE ) to come to smb.'s ~ (it came to our ~ that she had left town)
17) ( misc. ) to the best of one's ~