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WELL-KNOWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Frequently experienced; known closely or intimately
Example:
a well-known voice reached her ears
Synonyms:
long-familiar; well-known
Classified under:
Similar:
familiar (well known or easily recognized)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Widely or fully known
Example:
these facts are well known
Classified under:
Similar:
known (apprehended with certainty)
Context examples:
The clinical research that involves testing an approved drug with a well-known adverse event profile, and includes physiologic measurements and procedures that carry little risk to the participant.
(Minimal Risk Study, NCI Thesaurus)
However, when URI is not present in these stem cells, the well-known oncogene c-MYC is overexpressed, which leads to cell proliferation and increases susceptibility of these cells to radiation damage.
(New Way Discovered for Protecting against High-Dose Radiation Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As I spoke a powerful bay horse swept out from the weighing enclosure and cantered past us, bearing on its back the well-known black and red of the Colonel.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While plastics and microplastics are well-known threats to the world's oceans, the effect of metal contamination is poorly understood, according to the researchers.
(Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean: copper, National Science Foundation)
The first was a well-known type of pain fiber—a polymodal nociceptor—that responds to a host of high intensity stimuli such as heat and pinching.
(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)
This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than that which was associated with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The well-known shops, however, with their cheerful lights, did something for me; and when I alighted at the door of the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, I had recovered my spirits.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Two days later found me at the Hôtel National at Lausanne, where I received every courtesy at the hands of M. Moser, the well-known manager.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
