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knee /niː  /noun1The joint between the thigh and the lower leg in humans.He will be out for the season after having an operation on his knee to repair cruciate ligaments....- 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.
1.1The joint in other animals that corresponds or is analogous to the human knee.There is yet a further problem for the evolutionist in that the human knee is distinctly different from animal knees....- The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader.
- The elephant went on to its knees and tried to roll on top of Fay, repeatedly trying to stab him with her tusks.
1.2The upper surface of someone’s thigh when they are sitting; a person’s lap: they were eating their suppers on their 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.
- 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.
1.3The part of a garment covering the knee.I fell twice on the way home, soaking my mittens and the knees of my leggings....- 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.
2An angled piece of wood or metal frame used to connect and support the beams and timbers of a wooden ship.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.
3An abrupt obtuse or approximately right-angled bend in a graph between parts where the slope varies smoothly. verb (knees, kneeing, kneed) [with object]Hit (someone) with one’s knee: she 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Phrases at one's mother's (or father's) knee bend (or bow) the (or one's) knee bring someone/thing to their/its knees fall (or drop, or sink, etc.) to one's knees on bended knee(s) on one's knees weak at the knees OriginOld 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’.
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