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Definition of knee in English: kneenounPlural knees niːni 1The joint between the thigh and the lower leg in humans. Example sentencesExamples - In order to look good, shorts should fall a little above the knees and fit nicely around your buttocks and legs.
- She reached across and patted his knee.
- He rested on the floor on his hands and knees complaining of severe abdominal pain.
- For instance, be sure you can extend and flex your injured knee as fully as the other one.
- Lower your left knee toward the ground, dropping your hips straight down until your right thigh is parallel with the floor.
- He wore black shorts that reached down to his knees.
- My hands are shaking and my knees feel weak.
- I couldn't walk, and my doctor couldn't operate on my knee until I lost some weight.
- Sleep on your back if possible, with knees raised on a pillow.
- Josiah leaned forward, his left palm resting on the corresponding knee.
- He hasn't played since the third preseason game because of a sprained knee.
- She tried to stand but found her knees too weak to support her weight.
- With my teeth chattering and my knees wobbling, I somehow managed to climb the steps to the second floor.
- He was treated by the school's first aider for a grazed knee and bruised wrist before being sent back to continue with lessons.
- She slowly got up and her knees buckled.
- The problem is a cyst in his knee which may require surgery but should not keep Mark out of action for too long.
- He will be out for the season after having an operation on his knee to repair cruciate ligaments.
- Your right foot should be flat on the floor; your left knee, slightly bent.
- He sat on the bed, hugging his knees to his chin.
- She sat on her bed and drew her knees up under her chin.
- 1.1 The joint in other animals that corresponds or is analogous to the human knee.
Example sentencesExamples - The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader.
- He had exceptional conformation, very correct legs, hocks, and knees.
- There is yet a further problem for the evolutionist in that the human knee is distinctly different from animal knees.
- Now during hot season, I put baby oil on my horses daily, from their knees to their hooves.
- The elephant went on to its knees and tried to roll on top of Fay, repeatedly trying to stab him with her tusks.
- 1.2 The upper surface of someone's thigh when they are sitting; a person's lap.
they were eating their suppers on their knees Example sentencesExamples - I can't bear eating off my knees. I need a table.
- His eyes continually glanced from the girl sitting opposite him to a notebook that lay on his knees.
- When she came back he was sitting with the cat curled up on his knees.
- The last time I saw Donald was in Labour's Scottish HQ with his constituency secretary, a pile of local constituency correspondence on his knee.
- 1.3 The part of a garment covering the knee.
Example sentencesExamples - She wore her dark brown hair in braided pigtails with a red bandana and the knee of her overalls sported an overly large hole.
- Slightly taper the pant leg on the inseam from the knee down and on the outer seam from the hip down.
- I fell twice on the way home, soaking my mittens and the knees of my leggings.
- She was wearing badly worn jeans with holes in both knees, a white tee shirt that was much too big to be her own and a faded denim jacket with several small holes in it.
- My jeans had a grass stain on the knee.
- On the evening of her disappearance, she was wearing a pink sleeveless top, blue jeans with holes in the knees, a khaki duffel coat and black trainers.
- His too-big jeans were ripped in the knees, and his tee shirt was worn into a thin fabric.
- Faulkner wore jeans faded at the knees, a broad hat, and photochromic sunglasses.
- All of her jeans were torn and ripped at the knees and hem.
- She wore tight black jeans ripped at the knees, a tight black shirt, and chunky black combat boots.
2An angled piece of wood or metal frame used to connect and support the beams and timbers of a wooden ship. Example sentencesExamples - About half way down the keel, tucked between the knees of the ship was a low crate.
- The deck and hull are through bolted on an inward flange and structural knees and bulkheads are securely attached.
3An abrupt obtuse or approximately right-angled bend in a graph between parts where the slope varies smoothly.
verbknees, kneed, kneeing niːni [with object]Hit (someone) with one's knee. she kneed him in the groin Example sentencesExamples - PC Nick Smith tried to restrain her but she swore at him and then, when he tried to handcuff her, kneed him in the groin.
- And not having slept on my own for more than three weeks, I now can't seem to drop off without someone next to me hogging the duvet and kneeing me in the back.
- But eyewitnesses had earlier told the court how the youth had set upon Mr Worrell, kneeing him in the face before deliberately stabbing him in the chest.
- Mckenna stepped forward and kneed him in the stomach.
- But as Lloyd and his friend left the premises the victim pursued him, grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and kneeing him in the groin.
- Ruane fled into a working men's club in Blossom Street, and when a policeman followed him there, kneed him in the groin, causing him a sharp pain.
- I punched hard at the side of his face, and then kneed him hard in the stomach.
- I kneed him in the stomach and when he stumbled back I kicked him.
- He grabbed my arm, and instead of letting him kick me I kneed him in the groin.
- He is accused of throwing the 37-year-old saleswoman against a wall, kneeing her in the head and striking her head on the ground.
- The last time a guy tried to do that to me, I kneed him in the groin.
- Pearl kneed him hard in the stomach giving herself a chance to get free.
Phrases at one's mother's (or father's) knee Example sentencesExamples - He learned his politics at his mother's knee.
- His love and knowledge of wine started literally at his father's knee.
- Grant's heroine, Alix Rebick, is the inheritor of a Dresden cosmetics fortune who has spent years at her mother's knee, learning the complicated feminine rituals of beautification.
- Born in 1886 and groomed to lead the enterprise, Archie Bray had learned brickmaking at his father's knee, there absorbing the nineteenth-century practices of molding and ‘burning’ brick.
- I remember listening to his distinctive, gravelly voice as a child at my father's knee.
- Oliver, who is 27, learnt to cook at his father's knee - his parents ran a pub - and he wanted to be a chef from an early age.
- The ethics we practice are those that we learned at our mother's knee, so we think they are good.
- The shop was staffed initially by her five children, who all learned the business and a service mentality at their mother's knee.
- But Alessi did not learn his trade at his mother's knee in Malta (although he fondly remembers the fabulous Maltese speciality, cheesecake-like pies called pastizzi).
- When I was being taught the basic values at my mother's knee I got some valuable lessons.
bend (or bow) the (or one's) knee a country no longer willing to bend its knee to foreign powers Example sentencesExamples - And they despise the Good Friday agreement, which they see as bowing the knee to terrorism.
- Now we have a scramble amongst some politicians to prove themselves good Europeans and to bend the knee to nonsensical provisions coming from the EU.
- Let yesterday prove that Londoners and Britons of all faiths and backgrounds can still see clearly who their enemies are, and refuse to bow the knee.
- All three, and countless other journalists throughout the world, have one thing in common: they refused to bow the knee, in the face of naked threats and aggression.
- Once again, we see how much Ross bows the knee to the scientific establishment (except when they reject his views).
- Rudolph Giuliani, who will soon be knighted by the Queen, is a man who bends the knee to nobody.
- So the All England Club have at last bowed the knee to progress and agreed to roof the hallowed Centre Court.
bring someone/something to their/its knees Reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission. the country was brought to its knees by a new strike Example sentencesExamples - At Rangers, by contrast, manager Alex McLeish seemed doomed after a series of defeats at home brought the club to its knees.
- Such a government could be brought to its knees within months.
- But the current crisis, which began in mid-1998, has brought the nation to its knees.
- The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you.
- We have a duty to properly investigate the people who brought the city to its knees.
- In the 80s, it was thought AIDS, poverty and crime had brought the neighbourhood to its knees, but a new generation of young Hamburgers rediscovered the music clubs, discos and bars.
- Two decades of civil war have really brought the country to its knees.
- This is the man who brought our industry to its knees with his third report.
- Instead, high winds and spectacular lightning accompanied hours of heavy rains which, at times, nearly brought the city to its knees.
- The cost of the Commonwealth Games was £300m and it nearly brought the city to its knees until a last-minute government rescue package bailed it out.
fall (or drop, or sink, etc.) to one's knees Assume a kneeling position. Example sentencesExamples - And at Santo Domingo airport, relatives of passengers aboard the plane sobbed and fell to their knees in grief.
- ‘I think this is the best week of my life,’ he said, an hour after falling to his knees on court.
- Catholics in Pope John Paul II's hometown fell to their knees and wept as the news of his death reached them last night at the end of a special mass.
- I fell to my knees and started to cry again.
- As soon as the game was over, the players expressed their joy, either by raising their arms in victory, falling to their knees or waving to fans, who cheered throughout the game.
- Contemplating my plan, I am so overcome with emotion that I suddenly feel weak and sink to my knees.
- I refrained from falling to my knees and kissing their rings, but it did cross my mind.
- A student fell to his knees and prayed after a jury cleared him on attempted rape and indecent assault charges.
- As the final shot landed wide, Ferrero fell to his knees and blew kisses to the heavens.
- Edmonton was not the first time that she had crossed the world championship finishing line with arms in the air, falling to her knees to kiss the ground after a duel with Jones.
Synonyms fall to one's knees, get down on one's knees, genuflect, bow, bow down, make obeisance, kowtow, curtsy, show reverence, show deference
Kneeling, especially when pleading or showing great respect. did your guy propose on bended knee? Example sentencesExamples - Before the start of the race yesterday afternoon he went down on bended knee and - witnessed by hundreds of punters - asked Wendy to spend the rest of her life with him.
- After asking her father Graham's permission, he got down on bended knee at the top of the Eiffel Tower and presented her with a diamond engagement ring.
- Those responsible should be begging for forgiveness on bended knees instead of behaving in this way.
- I begged him on bended knee to give me a job, although he kept saying he couldn't afford to employ anyone.
Example sentencesExamples - If you have to get down on your knees, try kneeling on one knee and then switching to the other one every minute to minimize the pressure and disperse it.
- I was on my knees as I said these things, kneeling near the end of my bed with my hands joined in a vague approximation of a person praying.
- She said, ‘Get down on your knees and pray to God.’
- The morning found me on my knees in front of the coal furnace trying to understand why the fire kept going out.
- When I came to my senses again, I was on my knees with JD kneeling beside me.
- 1.1On the verge of collapse.
when they took over, the newspaper was on its knees Example sentencesExamples - Self-catering has its good points but when you are on your knees with exhaustion and badly need to be spoiled, indulged and treated like a princess, it's hard to remember exactly what they are.
- They say that one of the best times to invest in a blue chip firm is when the company is on its knees.
- They have a tremendous manager in Blackwell, who has admitted that he would not have had a sniff of the job if the club had not been on their knees.
- At a time when most of the global economy is on its knees, Chinese exports have rocketed by 20% so far this year.
Overcome by a strong feeling, typically desire. Example sentencesExamples - Almost every foodie I have ever met goes weak at the knees at the mere mention of white truffles.
- His sun-kissed skin and stubble make the iciest of women weak at the knees.
- Of course, I never met the lady in person - an experience that could apparently make strong men go weak at the knees.
Synonyms faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy, shaky weak-kneed, wobbly, quivery, unsteady, groggy, muzzy informal trembly, all of a tremble, all of a quiver, with rubbery legs, woozy rare vertiginous
Origin Old English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu. knuckle from Middle English: In medieval times a knuckle was the rounded shape made by a joint like the elbow or knee when bent, but over the years it became limited to the joints of the fingers. The word may ultimately be related to knee (Old English). Someone prepared to knuckle down to something is ready to concentrate on a task, but the phrase originally comes from a game. People playing marbles in the 18th century set their knuckles down on the ground before shooting or casting the ‘taw’, a large marble. Something which threatens to go beyond the limits of decency can be described as being near the knuckle. This was originally used more generally to mean ‘close to the permitted limits of behaviour’.
Rhymes absentee, açai, addressee, adoptee, agree, allottee, amputee, appellee, appointee, appraisee, après-ski, assignee, asylee, attendee, bailee, bain-marie, Bangui, bargee, bawbee, be, Bea, bee, bootee, bouquet garni, bourgeoisie, Brie, BSc, buckshee, Capri, cc, chimpanzee, cohabitee, conferee, consignee, consultee, Cree, debauchee, decree, dedicatee, Dee, degree, deportee, dernier cri, detainee, devisee, devotee, divorcee, draftee, dree, Dundee, dungaree, eau-de-vie, emcee, employee, endorsee, en famille, ennui, enrollee, escapee, esprit, evacuee, examinee, expellee, fee, fiddle-de-dee, flea, flee, fleur-de-lis, foresee, franchisee, free, fusee (US fuzee), Gardaí, garnishee, gee, ghee, glee, goatee, grandee, Grand Prix, grantee, Guarani, guarantee, he, HMRC, indictee, inductee, internee, interviewee, invitee, jamboree, Jaycee, jeu d'esprit, key, Lea, lee, legatee, Leigh, lessee, Ley, licensee, loanee, lychee, manatee, Manichee, maquis, Marie, marquee, me, Midi, mortgagee, MSc, nominee, obligee, Otomi, parolee, Parsee, parti pris, patentee, Pawnee, payee, pea, pee, permittee, plc, plea, pledgee, pollee, presentee, promisee, quay, ratatouille, referee, refugee, releasee, repartee, retiree, returnee, rupee, scot-free, scree, sea, secondee, see, settee, Shanxi, Shawnee, shchi, she, shea, si, sirree, ski, spree, standee, suttee, tant pis, tea, tee, tee-hee, Tennessee, testee, the, thee, three, thuggee, Tiree, Torquay, trainee, Tralee, transferee, tree, Trincomalee, trustee, tutee, twee, Twi, undersea, vestee, vis-à-vis, wagon-lit, Waikiki, warrantee, we, wee, whee, whoopee, ye, yippee, Zuider Zee Definition of knee in US English: kneenounnēni 1The joint between the thigh and the lower leg in humans. Example sentencesExamples - He will be out for the season after having an operation on his knee to repair cruciate ligaments.
- Your right foot should be flat on the floor; your left knee, slightly bent.
- He sat on the bed, hugging his knees to his chin.
- She reached across and patted his knee.
- Sleep on your back if possible, with knees raised on a pillow.
- She slowly got up and her knees buckled.
- Josiah leaned forward, his left palm resting on the corresponding knee.
- The problem is a cyst in his knee which may require surgery but should not keep Mark out of action for too long.
- For instance, be sure you can extend and flex your injured knee as fully as the other one.
- I couldn't walk, and my doctor couldn't operate on my knee until I lost some weight.
- With my teeth chattering and my knees wobbling, I somehow managed to climb the steps to the second floor.
- He rested on the floor on his hands and knees complaining of severe abdominal pain.
- In order to look good, shorts should fall a little above the knees and fit nicely around your buttocks and legs.
- He was treated by the school's first aider for a grazed knee and bruised wrist before being sent back to continue with lessons.
- She tried to stand but found her knees too weak to support her weight.
- He wore black shorts that reached down to his knees.
- Lower your left knee toward the ground, dropping your hips straight down until your right thigh is parallel with the floor.
- My hands are shaking and my knees feel weak.
- She sat on her bed and drew her knees up under her chin.
- He hasn't played since the third preseason game because of a sprained knee.
- 1.1 The corresponding or analogous joint in other animals.
Example sentencesExamples - The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader.
- Now during hot season, I put baby oil on my horses daily, from their knees to their hooves.
- There is yet a further problem for the evolutionist in that the human knee is distinctly different from animal knees.
- The elephant went on to its knees and tried to roll on top of Fay, repeatedly trying to stab him with her tusks.
- He had exceptional conformation, very correct legs, hocks, and knees.
- 1.2 The upper surface of someone's thigh when sitting; a person's lap.
they were eating their supper on their knees Example sentencesExamples - The last time I saw Donald was in Labour's Scottish HQ with his constituency secretary, a pile of local constituency correspondence on his knee.
- I can't bear eating off my knees. I need a table.
- His eyes continually glanced from the girl sitting opposite him to a notebook that lay on his knees.
- When she came back he was sitting with the cat curled up on his knees.
- 1.3 The part of a garment covering the knee.
Example sentencesExamples - His too-big jeans were ripped in the knees, and his tee shirt was worn into a thin fabric.
- She wore tight black jeans ripped at the knees, a tight black shirt, and chunky black combat boots.
- She was wearing badly worn jeans with holes in both knees, a white tee shirt that was much too big to be her own and a faded denim jacket with several small holes in it.
- All of her jeans were torn and ripped at the knees and hem.
- On the evening of her disappearance, she was wearing a pink sleeveless top, blue jeans with holes in the knees, a khaki duffel coat and black trainers.
- Faulkner wore jeans faded at the knees, a broad hat, and photochromic sunglasses.
- I fell twice on the way home, soaking my mittens and the knees of my leggings.
- My jeans had a grass stain on the knee.
- She wore her dark brown hair in braided pigtails with a red bandana and the knee of her overalls sported an overly large hole.
- Slightly taper the pant leg on the inseam from the knee down and on the outer seam from the hip down.
- 1.4 An angled piece of wood or metal frame used to connect and support the beams and timbers of a wooden vessel; a triangular plate serving the same purpose in a modern vessel.
Example sentencesExamples - The deck and hull are through bolted on an inward flange and structural knees and bulkheads are securely attached.
- About half way down the keel, tucked between the knees of the ship was a low crate.
- 1.5 An abrupt obtuse or approximately right-angled bend in a graph between parts where the slope varies smoothly.
verbnēni [with object]Hit (someone) with one's knee. she kneed him in the groin Example sentencesExamples - He is accused of throwing the 37-year-old saleswoman against a wall, kneeing her in the head and striking her head on the ground.
- But as Lloyd and his friend left the premises the victim pursued him, grabbing him by the scruff of his neck and kneeing him in the groin.
- He grabbed my arm, and instead of letting him kick me I kneed him in the groin.
- But eyewitnesses had earlier told the court how the youth had set upon Mr Worrell, kneeing him in the face before deliberately stabbing him in the chest.
- I punched hard at the side of his face, and then kneed him hard in the stomach.
- I kneed him in the stomach and when he stumbled back I kicked him.
- And not having slept on my own for more than three weeks, I now can't seem to drop off without someone next to me hogging the duvet and kneeing me in the back.
- Pearl kneed him hard in the stomach giving herself a chance to get free.
- Mckenna stepped forward and kneed him in the stomach.
- The last time a guy tried to do that to me, I kneed him in the groin.
- PC Nick Smith tried to restrain her but she swore at him and then, when he tried to handcuff her, kneed him in the groin.
- Ruane fled into a working men's club in Blossom Street, and when a policeman followed him there, kneed him in the groin, causing him a sharp pain.
Phrases at one's mother's (or father's) knee Example sentencesExamples - The shop was staffed initially by her five children, who all learned the business and a service mentality at their mother's knee.
- Grant's heroine, Alix Rebick, is the inheritor of a Dresden cosmetics fortune who has spent years at her mother's knee, learning the complicated feminine rituals of beautification.
- Born in 1886 and groomed to lead the enterprise, Archie Bray had learned brickmaking at his father's knee, there absorbing the nineteenth-century practices of molding and ‘burning’ brick.
- But Alessi did not learn his trade at his mother's knee in Malta (although he fondly remembers the fabulous Maltese speciality, cheesecake-like pies called pastizzi).
- When I was being taught the basic values at my mother's knee I got some valuable lessons.
- Oliver, who is 27, learnt to cook at his father's knee - his parents ran a pub - and he wanted to be a chef from an early age.
- His love and knowledge of wine started literally at his father's knee.
- He learned his politics at his mother's knee.
- The ethics we practice are those that we learned at our mother's knee, so we think they are good.
- I remember listening to his distinctive, gravelly voice as a child at my father's knee.
bend (or bow) the (or one's) knee a country no longer willing to bend its knee to foreign powers Example sentencesExamples - Once again, we see how much Ross bows the knee to the scientific establishment (except when they reject his views).
- All three, and countless other journalists throughout the world, have one thing in common: they refused to bow the knee, in the face of naked threats and aggression.
- So the All England Club have at last bowed the knee to progress and agreed to roof the hallowed Centre Court.
- Now we have a scramble amongst some politicians to prove themselves good Europeans and to bend the knee to nonsensical provisions coming from the EU.
- And they despise the Good Friday agreement, which they see as bowing the knee to terrorism.
- Rudolph Giuliani, who will soon be knighted by the Queen, is a man who bends the knee to nobody.
- Let yesterday prove that Londoners and Britons of all faiths and backgrounds can still see clearly who their enemies are, and refuse to bow the knee.
bring someone/something to their/its knees Reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission. Example sentencesExamples - In the 80s, it was thought AIDS, poverty and crime had brought the neighbourhood to its knees, but a new generation of young Hamburgers rediscovered the music clubs, discos and bars.
- Instead, high winds and spectacular lightning accompanied hours of heavy rains which, at times, nearly brought the city to its knees.
- We have a duty to properly investigate the people who brought the city to its knees.
- But the current crisis, which began in mid-1998, has brought the nation to its knees.
- Such a government could be brought to its knees within months.
- The fish-farming industry was brought to its knees by some report saying that eating farmed salmon can kill you.
- This is the man who brought our industry to its knees with his third report.
- At Rangers, by contrast, manager Alex McLeish seemed doomed after a series of defeats at home brought the club to its knees.
- Two decades of civil war have really brought the country to its knees.
- The cost of the Commonwealth Games was £300m and it nearly brought the city to its knees until a last-minute government rescue package bailed it out.
fall (or drop, or sink, etc.) to one's knees Assume a kneeling position. Example sentencesExamples - As the final shot landed wide, Ferrero fell to his knees and blew kisses to the heavens.
- Catholics in Pope John Paul II's hometown fell to their knees and wept as the news of his death reached them last night at the end of a special mass.
- And at Santo Domingo airport, relatives of passengers aboard the plane sobbed and fell to their knees in grief.
- ‘I think this is the best week of my life,’ he said, an hour after falling to his knees on court.
- As soon as the game was over, the players expressed their joy, either by raising their arms in victory, falling to their knees or waving to fans, who cheered throughout the game.
- I refrained from falling to my knees and kissing their rings, but it did cross my mind.
- Contemplating my plan, I am so overcome with emotion that I suddenly feel weak and sink to my knees.
- I fell to my knees and started to cry again.
- A student fell to his knees and prayed after a jury cleared him on attempted rape and indecent assault charges.
- Edmonton was not the first time that she had crossed the world championship finishing line with arms in the air, falling to her knees to kiss the ground after a duel with Jones.
Synonyms fall to one's knees, get down on one's knees, genuflect, bow, bow down, make obeisance, kowtow, curtsy, show reverence, show deference
Kneeling, especially when pleading or showing great respect. did he propose on bended knee? Example sentencesExamples - I begged him on bended knee to give me a job, although he kept saying he couldn't afford to employ anyone.
- Before the start of the race yesterday afternoon he went down on bended knee and - witnessed by hundreds of punters - asked Wendy to spend the rest of her life with him.
- After asking her father Graham's permission, he got down on bended knee at the top of the Eiffel Tower and presented her with a diamond engagement ring.
- Those responsible should be begging for forgiveness on bended knees instead of behaving in this way.
Example sentencesExamples - If you have to get down on your knees, try kneeling on one knee and then switching to the other one every minute to minimize the pressure and disperse it.
- I was on my knees as I said these things, kneeling near the end of my bed with my hands joined in a vague approximation of a person praying.
- When I came to my senses again, I was on my knees with JD kneeling beside me.
- The morning found me on my knees in front of the coal furnace trying to understand why the fire kept going out.
- She said, ‘Get down on your knees and pray to God.’
- 1.1On the verge of collapse.
when they took over, the newspaper was on its knees Example sentencesExamples - They have a tremendous manager in Blackwell, who has admitted that he would not have had a sniff of the job if the club had not been on their knees.
- They say that one of the best times to invest in a blue chip firm is when the company is on its knees.
- At a time when most of the global economy is on its knees, Chinese exports have rocketed by 20% so far this year.
- Self-catering has its good points but when you are on your knees with exhaustion and badly need to be spoiled, indulged and treated like a princess, it's hard to remember exactly what they are.
Example sentencesExamples - Almost every foodie I have ever met goes weak at the knees at the mere mention of white truffles.
- Of course, I never met the lady in person - an experience that could apparently make strong men go weak at the knees.
- His sun-kissed skin and stubble make the iciest of women weak at the knees.
Synonyms faint, dizzy, light-headed, giddy, shaky
Origin Old English cnēow, cnēo, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch knie and German Knie, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin genu and Greek gonu. |