knock down

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.

   “As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.”

2. fiil To demolish.

   “We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.”

3. fiil To reduce the price of.

   “They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.”

4. fiil To disassemble for shipment.

   “The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required.”

5. fiil To accumulate money, usually through crime.
6. fiil To embezzle.
7. fiil To drink fast.

   “I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.”

8. fiil To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
9. fiil To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.

   “They click their glasses and knock down the toast.”

10. fiil To nominate (someone) to speak.
11. fiil To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
12. fiil To reject or override a decision.

    “The judge knocked the award down to a half-million.”

13. fiil To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
14. fiil At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.

    “The picture was knocked down for £50.”

15. fiil To sell.

    “She had to wait for the end of the sale before these matters were put up, and as the auctioneer was in a hurry to get the sale over, and most of the bidders had left, she got a full set of servant's bedroom furniture knocked down to her for five pounds[.]”

16. fiil To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
17. fiil To reduce the burning of (a fire), as by cooling it with water or dirt.