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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

knock on the door of en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To ask for entrance or admission into.
    • Every year, thousands of students knock on the door of Ivy League universities.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knock, on, the, door, of.
    • Who can it be knocking at my door? Go away, don't come 'round here no more Can't you see that it's late at night? I'm very tired and I'm not feeling right 1981, Men at Work, “Who Can It Be Now?”, in Business as Usual:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
knock at the door of alternative lexicographic
knocked on the door of Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knocked on the door of Tense=Past lexicographic
knocking on the door of Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
knocks on the door of Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

knocking on heaven's door