Wonder vs Know - What's the difference?
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Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.
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, title= Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.
Someone very talented at something, a genius.
The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.
* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)
* Bible, (w) iii. 10
* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.
* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams
To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.
* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)
* Johnson
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.
* (William Shakespeare)
(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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, title= (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.
*, (w) 4.1:
*: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.
Knowledge; the state of knowing.
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1623 first folio edition), act 5, scene 2:
As nouns the difference between wonder and know
is that wonder is one of the while know is knowledge; the state of knowing.As a verb know is
(lb) to perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.wonder
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
- Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).
- They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
- All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
- Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.
Derived terms
* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wondersVerb
(en verb)- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- We cease to wonder at what we understand.
- I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.
Derived terms
* wondererStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----know
English
(wikipedia know)Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew , made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Quotations
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), Julius Caesar , scene 1: *: O, that a man might know' / The end of this day's business ere it come! / But it sufficeth that the day will end, / And then the end is ' known . * 1839 , (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), The Light of Stars'', ''Voices of the Night : *: O fear not in a world like this, / And thou shalt know' erelong, / ' Know how sublime a thing it is, / To suffer and be strong. *Usage notes
* "Knowen" is found in some old texts as the past participle. * In some old texts, the form "know to [verb]" rather than "know how to [verb]" is found, e.g. Milton wrote "he knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhymes".Derived terms
* God knows * God only knows * it's not what you know but who you know * know about * know-all * know beans about * know from * know-how * know inside and out * know-it-all * knowledge * know like a book * know like the back of one's hand * know-nothing * know of * know one's ass from a hole in the ground * know one's own mind * know one's way around * know someone in the biblical sense * know which end is up * know which way is up * not know someone from Adam * the dear knowsNoun
(en noun)- That on the view and know of these Contents, death,