knee
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knee/niː/
▶noun
- 1 the joint between the thigh and the lower leg.
■ a person's lap.
- 2 an angled piece of wood or metal supporting the beams of a wooden ship.
- 3 an abrupt obtuse or right-angled bend in a graph.
– phrases
at one's mother's (or father's) knee at an early age.
bend (or bow) the (or one's) knee submit.
bring someone (or something) to their (or its) knees reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission.
on bended knee (s) kneeling.
at one's mother's (or father's) knee at an early age.
bend (or bow) the (or one's) knee submit.
bring someone (or something) to their (or its) knees reduce someone or something to a state of weakness or submission.
on bended knee (s) kneeling.
– origin OE cnēow, cnēo, of Gmc origin.
'knee' also found in these Oxford entries:
achkan
- bell-bottoms
- Bermuda shorts
- bloomers
- boot-cut
- bow-legged
- breeches
- buskin
- calf
- cannon bone
- cruciate ligament
- culottes
- Directoire knickers
- fibula
- garter
- gastrocnemius
- geniculate
- genuflect
- genuine
- ginglymus
- goose step
- gymslip
- ham
- hamstring
- hock
- housemaid's knee
- jackboot
- jodhpurs
- kilt
- knee breeches
- kneecap
- knee-deep
- knee-high
- knee-jerk
- kneel
- knee-pan
- knee-slapper
- knee-trembler
- knickerbocker
- knock knees
- leg warmers
- -length
- lowball
- pas de chat
- pirouette
- plus fours
- polygonum
- popliteal
- popsock
