KNOCKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knocking mean? 

• KNOCKING (noun)
  The noun KNOCKING has 1 sense:

1. the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)

  Familiarity information: KNOCKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOCKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

knock; knocking

Context example:

the knocking grew louder

Hypernyms ("knocking" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

knock (rap with the knuckles)

knock (sound like a car engine that is firing too early)

 Context examples 

Thornton rapped Hal’s knuckles with the axe-handle, knocking the knife to the ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was shut; and as no one answered to my knocking, I went, by back ways and by-lanes, to the yard where he worked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I can't make her out, he said; she's a Russian, by the look of her; but she's knocking about in the queerest way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It struck fairly, nearly knocking the man over, but he did not obey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Of course, he did not realize that it was I who was knocking, but none the less his conduct was very uncourteous, and, indeed, under the circumstances rather suspicious.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The maid heard someone standing at the house-door, knocking.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Lip-lip, who had watched the whole proceeding from the bank, now rushed upon him, knocking him over and sinking his teeth into him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But I’m at the end of my patience, and when it comes to knocking my old man about—

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your lap seems full of good things, and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow unmercifully.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Lysine inhibits HSV growth by knocking out arginine.

(Lysine, NCI Thesaurus)