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knee
  1. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
  2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
  3. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
  4. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
  5. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
  6. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point.
  7. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I twisted my knee while playing soccer and now it's swollen.”
kneeler
  1. A person who kneels.
  2. A thing that is designed to be kneeled on.
  3. An apparatus that permits the loading door of a bus to decrease in height in order to facilitate boarding of passengers that are seniors and physically disadvantaged
  4. On a gable-end, the stone (often decorated) at the base of the slope of the gable on either side.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “At the shrine he was hoisted onto a kneeler, where he prayed before the ivy-covered grotto.”
      “This is the dragon with which the kneeler, Hercules, is fighting, and whose head he presses down with his foot.”
      “My feet hurt, knees hurt on the kneeler where someone's foot left shoe dirt there — sorry will you let me through.”
kneejoint
  1. The joint of the knee.
  2. (engineering) A toggle joint; so called because it consists of two pieces jointed to each other end to end, making an angle like the knee when bent.
kneecapping
  1. The act of injuring the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees; often a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The jury heard the kneecapping took place in February 1999, three years before Hickson shot Smith dead.”
      “The kneecapping, tar and feathering, the beatings, and the killing were respected by many in the nationalist community.”
      “In real life he's heavily involved in a secret life of gangland crime and kneecapping.”
kneebar
  1. (combat sports) A joint lock where the knee is hyperextended in order to cause pain and/or injury.
  2. Synonyms:
kneeprint
  1. The mark or impression left by a knee pressed against a surface.
kneesies
  1. flirtatious touching using the knee(s)
kneecap
  1. The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He lost his leg just above the kneecap last year as a result of a motorcycle accident.”
kneehole
  1. A space for the knees (and lower legs), especially under a desk.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimney piece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell.”
      “With a kitchen knife, I made a tiny nick in the wood at the back of the kneehole in the desk, near the floor.”
      “I reveled in my office naps, lying straight out on the carpeted floor in the kneehole in my desk, startling visitors in our life-care community.”
kneedness
  1. (in combinations) The state or quality of having a particular type of or number of knees.
kneepiece
  1. The piece of armour that covers the knee.
kneecapper
  1. The person who carries out kneecapping.
kneen
kneeing
  1. A blow made with the knee
knee-cap
  1. Alternative spelling of kneecap
  2. Examples:
    1. “Combining and elaborating in order to give Dot a nasty one on the knee-cap.”
      “Now the obvious way to divide the leg is to cut through the patellar ligament, leaving the knee-cap attached to the thigh.”
      “A score fell wounded, among them Champlain with an arrow in his knee-cap.”
kneeling
  1. The act by which someone kneels.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The kneeling of the devotees was a solemn display of reverence during the religious ceremony.”
knee-caps
  1. plural of knee-cap (alternative spelling of kneecaps).
  2. Examples:
    1. “Only the front of the thigh is protected by laminated cuissarts, and the rest of the leg by close-fitting knee-caps and greaves.”
kneecappings
  1. plural of kneecapping
kneecappers
  1. plural of kneecapper
kneejoints
  1. plural of kneejoint
kneeprints
  1. plural of kneeprint
kneepieces
  1. plural of kneepiece
kneelings
kneeholes
  1. plural of kneehole
kneecaps
  1. plural of kneecap
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I would have broken eye-sockets, rib cages, kneecaps and then some, such was my rabid bloodlust.”
      “It is a congenital birth defect where the kneecaps of the legs have slipped to the outside of the knees.”
      “Raise your knees toward your chest, holding your kneecaps or shins and keeping your knees as close together as you can.”
kneeings
  1. plural of kneeing
kneebars
  1. plural of kneebar
kneelers
knees
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