alight vs knockdown

alight

adj
  • Aglow with activity or emotion. 

  • Often followed by with: shining with light; luminous, radiant; also, brightly coloured; vivid. 

  • Of an electrical light source: switched on and emitting light. 

  • Burning, lit, on fire. 

adv
  • Chiefly in set alight: in flames, on fire; aflame. 

verb
  • Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon. 

  • Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop. 

  • Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest. 

knockdown

adj
  • To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening. 

  • reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer 

  • powerful enough to overwhelm or knock down 

  • Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal. 

noun
  • The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface. 

  • An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down. 

  • A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room. 

  • A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly. 

  • a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet. 

  • A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced. 

  • The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene. 

  • An overwhelming blow. 

verb
  • To employ the knockdown technique 

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