Knock vs. Rap — What's the Difference?

To strike with a hard blow

Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

To affect in a specified way by striking hard

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

To cause to be displaced or unengaged; force

Perform rap music

To cause to collide

A quick, sharp knock or blow

To produce by hitting or striking

A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing

(Informal) To find fault with; criticize

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

To strike a sharp audible blow or series of blows, as on a door.

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

To collide with something

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

To make a pounding or clanking noise

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

An instance of striking or colliding.

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

The sound of a sharp blow on a hard surface.

To utter sharply

A pounding or clanking noise made by an engine, often as a result of faulty fuel combustion. Also called ping.

To criticize or blame.

(Slang) A cutting, often petty criticism.

To strike a quick light blow

An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

A sharp impact.

To perform rap music.

(figuratively) A criticism.

To perform as rap music

(figuratively) A blow or setback.

A quick light blow or knock.

Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.

A knocking or tapping sound.

(cricket) A batsman's innings.

A reprimand.

Synonym of hunger knock

A sentence to serve time in prison.

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.

The least bit

To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.

To bump or impact.

A composition or performance of such music.

(intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

(slang) Blame for something.

To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.

(informal) A casual talk.

To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize habitually or captiously.

Rap music.

To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table.

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.

An appraisal.

To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage.

A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.

(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap.

A whit; a jot.

The sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing);

Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution

Negative criticism

A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

A vigorous blow;

(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

A bad experience;

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

The act of hitting vigorously;

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

Deliver a sharp blow or push :

To utter quickly and sharply.

Rap with the knuckles;

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

Knock against with force or violence;

To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

(transitive) To seize and carry off.

Sound like a car engine that is firing too early;

(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

Find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws;

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Conversation; also, rapping.

A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

To hasten.

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

To exchange; to truck.

To engage in a discussion, converse.

To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

A gentle blow

The sound made by a gentle blow

Voluble conversation

Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

The act of hitting vigorously;

Strike sharply;

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Perform rap music

Talk volubly