knocking against

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• Knocking — Knock Knock (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knocked} (n[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Knocking}.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf. {Knack}.] 1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Knocking Off —    Another trick is to walk or gallop so close to a barbed wire fence or thorny bush that the rider s leg scrapes against the sharp object. In your attempt to move your leg out of harm s way, you fall out of the saddle …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

• Port knocking — In networking, port knocking is a method of externally opening ports on a firewall by generating a connection attempt on a set of prespecified closed ports. Once a correct sequence of connection attempts is received, the firewall rules are… …   Wikipedia

• knock one's head against the wall — waste time trying to do something with no success They have been knocking their head against the wall for years trying to find a solution to the problem …   Idioms and examples

• be banging one's head against a brick wall — be banging (or knocking) one s head against a brick wall be doggedly attempting the impossible and suffering in the process …   Useful english dictionary

• basketry — /bas ki tree, bah ski /, n. 1. baskets collectively; basketwork. 2. the art or process of making baskets. [1850 55; BASKET + RY] * * * Art and craft of making containers and other objects from interwoven flexible fibres such as grasses, twigs,… …   Universalium

• bark — bark1 [ba:k US ba:rk] v [: Old English; Origin: beorcan] 1.) when a dog barks, it makes a short loud sound or series of sounds →↑growl bark at ▪ The dog always barks at strangers. 2.) [i]also bark out [T] to say something quickly in a loud voice …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bark — 1 verb 1 (I) to make the short, loud sound that dogs and some other animals make (+ at): The dog always barks at strangers. 2 also bark out (T) to say something quickly in a loud voice: Listen up! the teacher barked. 3 bark up the wrong tree… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Judas —    In folk religion, Judas the traitor and suicide is the ultimate hate figure, and various supposedly evil or unlucky things are explained by reference to him: he was red haired, he spilt the salt at the Last Supper, he was the thirteenth person …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• Cetonia aurata — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• Synchronicity — is the experience of two or more events which are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner.The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by… …   Wikipedia