knock up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.

   “I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.”

2. fiil To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.

   “However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.”

3. fiil To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more.

   “‘Now, mamma,’ he said, when he went out, ‘take notice, you are not to knock up your god-daughter with gossip,’ [...]”

4. fiil To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out.

   “[…] the horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service […]”

5. fiil To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.

   “I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.”

6. fiil To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.

   “The Tennis & Rackets Association - Tournament Rules Official Knock up: if the players knock up together a maximum of five minutes shall be permitted; if they knock up separately each player shall be permitted to knock up for a maximum of five minutes.”

7. fiil To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.

   “to knock up printed sheets”

8. fiil To straighten up a stack of paper.