Meaning of knowledge in English

knowledge

noun

/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/ us

/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/

understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by people generally:

Her knowledge of English grammar is very extensive.

He has a limited knowledge of French.

The details of the scandal are now common knowledge (= familiar to most people).

She started to photograph the documents, safe in the knowledge that (= knowing that) she wouldn't be disturbed for at least an hour.

In this town there are only a couple of restaurants that to my knowledge (= judging from my personal experience and information) serve good food.

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the state of knowing about or being familiar with something:

They both deny all knowledge of the affair.

It has come/been brought to our knowledge (= we have discovered) that several computers have gone missing.

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Her knowledge of computers is quite awe-inspiring.
She has an intimate knowledge of Tuscany, where she has lived for 20 years.
He tried to impress me with his extensive knowledge of wine.
I only have a limited knowledge of Spanish.
He went to visit her without my knowledge.

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(Definition of knowledge from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

knowledge | American Dictionary

knowledge

noun [ U ]

/ˈnɑl·ɪdʒ/

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awareness, understanding, or information that has been obtained by experience or study, and that is either in a person’s mind or possessed by people generally:

How will we use our increasing scientific knowledge?

A lack of knowledge on the part of teachers is a real problem.

He has a limited knowledge of French.

The owner claims the boat was being used without her knowledge.

It was common knowledge that Lucy was superstitious about the number 13.

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knowledge | Business English

knowledge

noun

/ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ us

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skill in, understanding of, or information about something, which a person gets by experience or study:

acquire/gain/have knowledge

possess/lack knowledge

People working in stores need better product knowledge.

business/scientific/technical knowledge

deny all/any knowledge of sth The chairman denies all knowledge of any foreign accounts.

Applicants should have a working knowledge of computer-aided design systems.

detailed/extensive/basic knowledge

business/scientific/technical knowledge

to my knowledge (also to the best of my knowledge)

judging from my personal experience and information:

To my knowledge, not one call was made to verify anything in my application for the job.

Examples of knowledge

knowledge

This postulate permitted exchange and transfer of knowledge.

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Conventional earthwork plans are theory-laden and the result of the application of particular archaeological skills, knowledge and experience.

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If a player's type can be made common knowledge, rational egoists would not survive.

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Such situations require fundamental knowledge of these interactions as a possible cause of anomalous transport phenomena in magnetized plasmas.

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The qualitative analyses focus on the learners' metalinguistic knowledge with regard to article selection.

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All of this is ordinary in the realm of current knowledge-based system theory and can be found, in many variations, in the literature.

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This is because their phonetic ability is low and their functional knowledge (in terms of the recoverability principle) is not yet developed.

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Soldiers on leave and veterans returning home undoubtedly passed on their knowledge and experiences to the rest of the population.

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They conclude that self-management strategies contribute to an increase in learners' self- and contextual knowledge which can assist in reducing anxiety.

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Older knowledge, perhaps because it has been relocated to regions that are damaged by the disease process, does not fare as well.

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It gives insight into the format of experts' knowledge structures; experts turn out to use mainly frame representations.

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The latter include intelligent agents, natural language understanding and processing, reasoning strategies, and knowledge representations and ontologies.

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They distinguish a lexical network in which word form information is stored from a semantic network in which perceptual knowledge and conceptual knowledge are represented.

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That to me represents lack of understanding of the very special knowledge that is brought to bear.

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It turns out that this difficulty considerably slows down both tasks, as compared to the scenario with positive knowledge radius.

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Collocations with knowledge

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abstract knowledge

However, in the mentalistic framework, the formation and manipulation of abstract knowledge is restricted to conscious activities.

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accumulated knowledge

The second section demonstrates how the accumulated knowledge of sociolinguistics can be applied to the clinical practice of speech-language pathology.

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accurate knowledge

Furthermore, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of seeds could be used to simulate population dynamics of invasive annual plants.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

知識, 學問, 學識…

Meaning of knowledge in English

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knowledge | Business English

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