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Northern Ireland

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Knock, Belfast Victoria was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston district. Located in the east of the city, the district elected seven members to Belfast ...
, County Down * Knock, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh


Republic of Ireland

* Knock, County Clare, village in County Clare *
Knock, County Mayo Knock (, meaning ''The Hill'' – but now more generally known in Irish as ''Cnoc Mhuire'', "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") is a large village in County Mayo, Ireland. Its notability is derived from the Knock Shrine, a Catholic shrine and pl ...
, village in County Mayo *
Knock Shrine The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, commonly referred to as Knock Shrine, is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site and national shrine in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, where locals claimed to have seen an apparition in 1879 of the Ble ...
, a major Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in the village of Knock, County Mayo *
Ireland West Airport Knock Ireland West Airport ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Mhuire), officially known as Ireland West Airport Knock ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire), is an international airport south-west of Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland. The vill ...
, commonly known as Knock Airport


Scotland

* Knock, Mull, a place on the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Knock, Moray, a
location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
* Knock, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides * Knock railway station (Scotland), Aberdeenshire


Elsewhere

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Knock, Cumbria Knock is a small village in the Eden district of Cumbria, England, and 1.9 km northwest of the larger village of Dufton and 3.1 km south of the village of Milburn. It lies midway between Cross Fell to the north and the town of Apple ...
, England * Knock, East Frisia, Germany


Art and entertainment

* ''Knock'' (play), 1923, by Jules Romains about a doctor * "Knock" (short story), by Fredric Brown, supposedly the shortest short-story ever written * ''
The Knock ''The Knock'' is a British television crime drama, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from the London City & South Collection Investigation Unit of HM Customs and Excise. The seri ...
'' (1994-2000), a UK television drama * " The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2)", a song by UNKLE from the album ''Psyence Fiction'' (1998) * '' Knock'', a 2017 French film starring
Omar Sy Omar Sy (, ff, 𞤌𞤥𞤢𞤪 𞤅𞤭, Omar Si; born 20 January 1978) is a French actor, best known in France for his sketches with Fred Testot on the '' Service après-vente des émissions'' television show on Canal+ (2005–2012). He gain ...


Other uses

* Knock, to rap on a door * Knock, a slang term meaning to render a negative
evaluation Evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to ...
or assessment * Engine knocking, in spark-ignition internal combustion engines *
Knock Nevis TT ''Seawise Giant''—earlier ''Oppama''; later ''Happy Giant'', ''Jahre Viking'', ''Knock Nevis'', and ''Mont''—was a ULCC supertanker that was the longest self-propelled ship in history, built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries i ...
, a Norwegian supertanker formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking * The Knock, another term for
hitting the wall In endurance sports such as road cycling and long-distance running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. Milder instances ...
* The Knock, a slang term for ''
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See also

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Getting the wind knocked out of you Getting the wind knocked out of you is an idiom that refers to the difficulty of breathing and temporary paralysis of the diaphragm caused by reflex diaphragmatic spasm when sudden force is applied to the upper central region of the abdomen and ...
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Knock Castle (disambiguation) Knock Castle may refer to * Knock Castle (Isle of Skye), Scotland * Knock Castle (Aberdeenshire), Scotland * Knock Castle, Largs Knock Castle is a private residence on the outskirts of Largs, on the west coast of Scotland. It was built by th ...
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Knock Knock (disambiguation) Knock Knock may refer to: * Knock-knock joke, a type of joke Film and television * ''Knock Knock'' (1940 film), an animated short film noted for the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker * ''Knock Knock'' (2007 film), a horror film featuring S ...
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Knockabout (disambiguation) Knockabout may refer to: *Cape Cod Knockabout, a type of boat * ''Knockabout'' (film), a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts film *Knockabout Comics Knockabout Comics is a UK publisher and distributor of underground and alternative books and comics. T ...
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Knocking (disambiguation) Knocking or Knockin or Knockin' may refer to: * Knocking, Austria, a hamlet, subdivision of Erlauf (municipality) in Austria *Knocking (2006 film), a documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses *Knocking (2021 film) ''Knocking'' ( sv, Knackningar) ...
* Knockout, a winning criterion in some combat sports * Knocks (disambiguation) *
Knokke Knokke () is a town in the municipality of Knokke-Heist, which is located in the province of West Flanders in Flanders, Belgium. The town itself has 15,708 inhabitants (2007), while the municipality of Knokke-Heist has 33,818 inhabitants (2009). ...
, Belgium *
Nauck (disambiguation) Nauck may refer to: * Johann August Nauck (1822-1892), German classical scholar * Todd Nauck (born 1971), American comic book writer and artist * Nauck, Virginia, a neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia See also * Knock (disambiguation) * Nock (dis ...
* NOC (disambiguation) * Nock (disambiguation) *
Total Knock Out In professional wrestling, a cutter is a facelock neckbreaker maneuver. This move sees an attacking wrestler first apply a facelock (reaching back and grabbing the head of an opponent, thus pulling the opponent's jaw above the wrestler's sh ...
, also known as TKO {{disambiguation