knock-outとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

knock out (third-person singular simple present knocks out, present participle knocking out, simple past and past participle knocked out)

1. To strike or render unconscious
   1. (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.

      I accidentally knocked out the glass in my picture frame.

   2. (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.

      The boxer knocked out his opponent in the third round.

      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

        In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

   3. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.

      The allergy pill knocked him out for a good three hours.

   4. (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
      • 2014, D. G. Driver, Cry of the Sea, page 61:

        That's a put-you-straight-to-sleep book if there ever was one, and I knocked right out after two paragraphs.

   5. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.

      Running errands all day really knocked him out.

   6. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
   7. (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
   8. (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.

      The antitank gun knocked out the enemy tank.

   9. (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
      • 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 20:

        As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.

      • 2011 December 15, Marc Higginson, “Shamrock Rovers 0-4 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

        Tottenham were knocked out of the Europa League, despite a comfortable victory over Shamrock Rovers in Dublin.

2. (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.

   The prisoner knocked out a message on the wall for the prisoner in the adjoining cell.

3. (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.

   They knocked out the entire project in one night.

4. To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
5. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) To leave college after hours—after half-past ten at night when the doors have been locked.
   • 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 503:

     "Hullo!" he said, getting up; "time for me to knock out, or old Copas will be in bed. […] "

6. (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
7. (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.

派生語

• knock one out
• knock oneself out → don't knock yourself out

関連する語

• knockout
• (leave after hours): knock in (“enter after hours”)

派生した語

• → Macedonian: нокаут (nokaut)
• → Portuguese: nocaute
• → Russian: нокаут (nokaut)
• → Serbo-Croatian: нокаут
• → Spanish: nocaut
• → Turkish: nakavt

参考

別の表記

• knock-out

語源

Deverbal from knock out.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnɒk.aʊt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈnɑk.oʊt/

名詞

knockout (plural knockouts)

1. The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.

   The boxer scored a knockout on his opponent.

2. The deactivation of anything.
   • 1989 February 6, Network World, page 82:

     Pull the plug on a node to see how the network handles a node knockout.

3. (informal) Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.

   If you've ever had a sack race, you know it's a real knockout for kids and adults alike.

4. (informal) A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.

   Synonym: stunner

   • 1995, Rhonda K. Reinholtz, “Sexual Discourse and Sexual Intercourse”, in P. J. Kalbfleisch, M. J. Cody, editors, Gender, Power, and Communications in Human Relationships, Routledge, →ISBN, page 150:

     Phrases such as "she bowled me over," "she's striking," and "she's a knockout" suggest that the woman affects the man in ways he cannot mediate or control.

   • 2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     She was the "bikini-babe", "Sarkozette" stunna who never was. Paris was baffled this week when some of the British media began drooling over an old beach photograph of a former newsreader, Christine Kelly, whom they announced as Sarkozy's latest cabinet appointment—or rather "knockout lovely" or "oh yes, minister!".

5. A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.

   They left a knockout in the panel for running extra wires someday.

6. (genetics) The deactivation of a particular gene.
7. (genetics) A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
8. (printing) An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
9. (sports) A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.

   the knockout stages of the competition

   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎:

     In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages -with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.

10. (uncountable) A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
11. (US, professional wrestling, capitalized) A woman in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
12. Ellipsis of knockout auction.

派生語

派生した語

• → Belarusian: нака́ўт (nakáwt)
• → Portuguese: nocaute, knockout (unadapted spelling)
• → Russian: нока́ут (nokáut)
• → Spanish: nocaut
• → Ukrainian: нока́ут (nokáut)
• → Vietnamese: nốc ao

形容詞

knockout (not comparable)

1. Rendering someone unconscious.

   He delivered a knockout blow.

2. Amazing; gorgeous; beautiful.

   You should have seen her knockout eyes.

   • 2010, Ro Martinez, Modeling at Any Age, page 81:

     If the same model has beautiful hair, white teeth, glowing skin, a fit body, good hands and legs, a great wardrobe, and a knockout comp, her value on the "bookability meter" goes sky high.

3. (genetics) Designating an organism in which a particular gene has been removed or deactivated.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 255:

     The result is a so-called knockout mouse, reared with a single gene silenced, the better to reveal that gene's true purpose.

4. Causing elimination from a competition.
   • 2012, Ben Smith, Leeds United 2-1 Everton‎:

     Rodolph Austin delivered the knockout blow from close range 20 minutes from time, after Aidan White had given Leeds a dream start after four minutes.

関連する語

• knock one's socks off
• knock out
• technical knockout, TKO