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 Translation for 'know-all' from English to French
NOUN   a know-all | know-alls
SYNO know-all | know-it-all
personne {f} qui veut toujours avoir raison [masculine et féminine]know-all [Br.] [coll.] [pej.]
s'y connaître en qc.to know all about sth.
personne {f} qui veut toujours avoir raison [masculine et féminine]know-it-all [Am.] [coll.] [pej.]
donneur {m} de leçons [péj.]know-it-all [pej.]
Pour autant que je sache.For all I know.
être très au courantto know all about it
Je ne sais pas ce que je fais de mon argent !I don't know where all my money goes (to)!
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Usage Examples English
  • Police officers live in a neighbourhood on a long-term assignment and are expected to know all the residents personally.
  • Saturated multiplicative sets are not widely used explicitly, since, for verifying that a set is saturated, one must know "all" units of the ring.
  • The nature of chaos theory suggests that the predictability of any system is limited because it is impossible to know all of the minutiae of a system at the present time.
  • Butler later wrote "I cannot help thinking that a man who always held all the bridge scores in his head, who seemed to know all the numbers, and played Vingt-et-un so successfully would have been useful".
  • However, as students know all too well, performance in a test situation is not always a good measure of what has been learned.

  • Devan Nair also described Lee as "an increasingly self-righteous know-all" surrounded by "department store dummies".
  • To derive the ideal gas law one does not need to know all 6 formulas, one can just know 3 and with those derive the rest or just one more to be able to get the ideal gas law, which needs 4.
  • Individual moral agents do not know everything about their particular situations, and thus do not know all the possible consequences of their potential actions.
  • From the belief that "the Imams know all that was, that is, and that is to come, and that their knowledge does not increase with time," it is inferred that Husayn already knew the fate that awaited him and his followers.
  • He regularly performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, before launching his "Pub Landlord" persona (which he describes as a "know-all know-nothing blowhard who knows the answer to every question even though he hasn't been asked any of them").

  • Intuitively it may be viewed as the statement that if we know all frequency and phase information about a wave then we may reconstruct the original wave precisely.
  • In the New Testament, passages such as 1 John 2:20 speak of an anointing from the "Holy One" which leads the anointed to "know all things," and 1 John 2:27 reiterates this, stating that the anointed were taught by this anointing "all things."
  • The early Islamic philosopher, Al Farabi, makes the case that if God does in fact know all human actions and choices, then Aristotle's original solution to this dilemma stands.
  • The ETD also detects movement of the train upon start-up and radios this information to the engineers so they know all of the slack is out of the couplings and additional power could be applied.
  • In some schools, practitioners are required to know all of these kata before reaching "sandan" (3rd degree black belt) It is in "gekesai dai ni" that students are introduced to the "neko ashi dachi" stance, and to the wheel block ("mawashi uke").

  • The first case is theoretical: when you know all the coefficients [...] then you take certain limits and find the precise radius of convergence.
  • In his calculation, Kelvin assumed that photosynthesis was the only source of free oxygen; he did not know all of the components of the oxygen cycle.
  • The "Long Live Love" album was released in the US and Canada as "If You Love Me, Let Me Know".
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