unknown — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Not known; unidentified; not well known.

   Uso

   • postpositional
   • sometimes

   Sinonimi

   anonymousunfamiliarunchartedundiscoveredunexploredunidentifiedunnamedunrecognizedunrevealedunascertainedobscureunsung

   Contrari

   well-knownfamousknown

   Esempi

   The concept has existed since times unknown.

   Altri esempi (1)

   The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

   I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.

Sostantivo

1. A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.

2. Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.

   Esempi

   Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?

   Altri esempi (3)

   I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.

   As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.

   The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine. This is one of the biggest unknowns in these scenarios, and yet compliance can be the most crucial factor in determining whether an intervention works.

3. A person of no identity; a nonentity.

   Esempi

   How does it feel, / how does it feel? / To be on your own, / with no direction home / A complete unknown, / like a rolling stone

   Altri esempi (1)

   Khaleque, the landowner, who had contributed most of the money needed to transform the neglected burial-place of an unknown into a mazar, masked his pride and pleasure with difficulty. He solemnly declared: ‘Perhaps now we shall be forgiven for neglecting the saint all these years.’

Aggettivo

1. not known

   Contrari

   known

   Esempi

   an unknown amount

   an unknown island

   Altri esempi (2)

   an unknown writer

   an unknown source

2. being or having an unknown or unnamed source

   Sinonimi

   namelessunidentifiedunnamed

   Esempi

   a poem by an unknown author

   corporations responsible to nameless owners

   Altri esempi (1)

   an unnamed donor

3. not known to exist

   Esempi

   things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths

4. not famous or acclaimed

   Sinonimi

   obscureunsung

   Esempi

   an obscure family

   unsung heroes of the war

5. not known before

   Sinonimi

   strange

   Esempi

   used many strange words

   saw many strange faces in the crowd

   Altri esempi (1)

   don't let anyone unknown into the house

Sostantivo

1. an unknown and unexplored region

   Sinonimi

   unknown regionterra incognita

   Termini più generali

   region

   Esempi

   they came like angels out of the unknown

2. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

   Sinonimi

   strangeralien

   Termini più generali

   intruderinterlopertrespasser

3. a variable whose values are solutions of an equation

   Sinonimi

   unknown quantity

   Termini più generali

   variable