Verb

(label) To perceive sounds through the ear.

(label) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way.

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(label) To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) X:

Agayne there was dissencion amonge the iewes for these sayinges, and many of them sayd: He hath the devyll, and is madde: why heare ye hym?

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”}}

(label) To listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.).

(label) To receive information about; to come to learn of.

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) :

Adam, soon as he heard / The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd, / Astonied stood and Blank [...].

(label) To listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try.

To sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of.

Verb

(lb) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.

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(lb) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.

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(lb) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

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(lb) To experience.

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*1991 , Irvin Haas, Historic Homes of the American Presidents , p.155:

*:The Truman family knew good times and bad,.

(lb) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.

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*(Bible)'', ''(w) 7.16 :

*:Ye shall know them by their fruits.

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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

*1980 , Armored and mechanized brigade operations , p.3−29:

*:Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.

(lb) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.

* (Thomas Flatman), Translation of Part of (Petronius) Arbiter's (Satyricon)

*:At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.

*1818 , (w), (Frankenstein) :

*:Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him:.

To understand from experience or study.

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(lb) To understand (a subject).

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To have sexual relations with.

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*:And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

(lb) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

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(lb) To be or become aware or cognizant.

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To be acquainted (with another person).

*1607 , (William Shakespeare), (Antony and Cleopatra) , :

*:You and I have known , sir.