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Knap

Definitions: Knap

Knap

Verb

1. Strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles".

2. Break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "knap" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)


Synonyms: Knap

Synonyms: break off (v), chip (v), cut off (v), rap (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Knap

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Height

Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Knap

English words defined with "knap": Hand flusKnapped, Knapping. (references)
Etymologies containing "knap": Knappish, Knapple, knapsack, KnopNape. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Knap" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (button), Dutch (ably, beautiful, cleanly cut, cultured, educated, fair, fine, handsome, intelligent, learned, lovely, neat, net, precise, precize, sagacious, well-informed), Swedish (cleat).

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Modern Usage: Knap

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Knap het op met verf (Kleurrijk Blegië) (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Knap

DomainTitle

Books

  • Knap gylpen Freud : om fysisk og psykisk vold mod kvinder og brn (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Knap

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Black and white wash painting of Greater Scaups, by Joseph D. Knap. Painting was his hobby and duck hunting a favorite pastime. (Deceased) Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Knap

The following table summarizes the usage of "knap" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KnapLast name10082,817
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Knap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

knap

6

knap vogt

6

knap sack

5

jennifer knap

4

knap weed

4

flint knap

3

in knap

3

knap shoes

2

britax knap si

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Knap

Language Translations for "knap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shqiptoj shpejtë, shqiptim i shpejtë, copëtoj gur, copëtim gurash. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

удрям (bang against, bash, beat, biff, blast, bruise, bust, catch, douse, hammer, heel, hit, impact, jam on, knock, lash, lay, peg at, plump, poke, pole-ax, pound, ram, set, shoot, slam, slam on, smash, smite, strike, strike in, thunder, wallop, zap), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), чукам (drive, hammer, knock, rattle, scutch), троша (crumb, crumble), крада (filch, lift, loot, mooch, plunder, poach, prig, purloin, rustle, scarp, snitch, steal, thieve, win), връх на хълм, изпъкналост (bulge, burr, camber, convexity, jut, knob, lobe, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, swelling, umbo), дялам (chip, chisel, hack, tool). (various references)

   

Czech

  

roztloukat kámen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπάζω πέτρεσ, σάκκοσ εφόδιων στρατιώτη. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לשבור אב ים, ל"ת פל על (cut loose, tie into), ל שוך (bite, sting). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összetör (beat, dash, shatter, smash, to break into shivers, to crash, to crush up, to shatter, to shiver, to smash, to smash up), összeroppant (to crack sy up, to crunch). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apknay

   

Portuguese

  

quebrar (Basil, be bankrupt, breach, break, chip, crack, crush, disintegrate, disrupt, flaw, fracture, grind, knock off, outbreak, shatter, smash, split, violate), partir (absent onself, break, crack, depart, fist, flit, foliate, fracture, go, go away, leave, leaved, outbreak, part, pull out, quit, sail, shove off, slice, smash, split, start, start running, take off), nodoso (gnarled, gnarly, knobby, knotted, knotty, nodose, nodosity), elevação de terreno, crista de monte. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), rosti repede (jabber, jabber out), muşca lacom, concasa (break, crush), înfuleca (bolt, engorge, gorge, guzzle, slummock, wolf, wolf down). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

холм (butte, down, hill, knoll, mound), вершина холма (hiltop), бить щебень. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krckati (crack, crunch), vrh brega, uzvišica, glodati (gnaw, mill, nibble). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tepecik (Barrow, Hill, hillock, hummock, knoll, kopje, little hill, mound, stigma), taş yontmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Knap

Derivations

Words beginning with "knap": knapped, knapper, knappers, knapping, knaps, knapsack, knapsacked, knapsacks, knapweed, knapweeds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Knap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anap, Cenap, cnip, gnap, kanap, Kap, Klapp, kna, Knaak, Knab, knac, knaf, knal, knape, knaph, knat, knav, Kneip, knip, kniph, knla, knop, Knopp, Krapp, nadp, nafp, naip, napp, ncp, nepp, ngp, nhap, Nka, Nkipc, nlp, nmp, np, npa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Knap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-k-n-p"

-1 letter: nap, pan.

-2 letters: an, ka, na, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-k-n-p"
 

+1 letter: knaps, pekan, plank, prank, punka, spank.

 

+2 letters: kidnap, napkin, pekans, planks, pranks, punkah, punkas, spanks, unpack.

 

+3 letters: kampong, kidnaps, knapped, knapper, kneecap, kneepad, kneepan, manpack, napkins, nonpeak, packing, packman, packmen, paiking, pancake, panicky, parking, peaking, pikeman, planked, pranked, punkahs, ranpike, spanked, spanker, unpacks, unspeak.

 

+4 letters: backspin, bankrupt, capeskin, crankpin, handpick, kampongs, kephalin, kidnaped, kidnapee, kidnaper, knappers, knapping, knapsack, knapweed, kneecaps, kneepads, kneepans, landskip, minipark, newspeak, pachinko, packings, packness, pancaked, pancakes, panicked, pannikin, parkings, parkland, partaken, peacenik, planking, plankter, plankton, polkaing, pranking, prankish, prefrank, ranpikes, skiplane, snapback, snowpack, spankers, spanking, sparking, speaking, stopbank, tankship, unpacked, unpacker, unspeaks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Knap


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 6E 61 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    -.    .-    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01101110 01100001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#110 &#97 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 006E 0061 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

45806782

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Knap"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, Arnavut

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgaristan ile ilgili

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Τσέχος, cseh, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, musevi, ibranice, ibrani

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, Rusça

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeservo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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