Definitions for knee

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knee knee

Spelling: [nee]

IPA: /ni/

Knee is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in knee (eekn).

Definitions for knee

noun

1. Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
2. Zoology. the corresponding joint or region in the hind leg of a quadruped; stifle.
3. a joint or region likened to this but not anatomically homologous with it, as the tarsal joint of a bird, the carpal joint in the forelimb of the horse or cow, etc.
4. the part of a garment covering the knee.
5. something resembling a bent knee, especially a rigid or braced angle between two framing members.
6. Also called hip, shoulder. Furniture. the inward curve toward the top of a cabriole leg.
7. Building Trades. the junction of the top and either of the uprights of a bent. a curved member for reinforcing the junction of two pieces meeting at an angle.
8. Also called kneeler. a stone cut to follow a sharp return angle.

Idioms

1. bring someone to his / her knees, to force someone into submission or compliance.
2. cut (someone) off at the knees, to squelch or humiliate (a person) suddenly and thoroughly:
3. on one's / its knees, in a supplicatory position or manner: in a desperate or declining condition:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or touch with the knee.
2. to secure (a structure, as a bent) with a knee.

verb (used without object)

1. Obsolete. to go down on the knees; kneel.

Origin of knee

before 900; Middle English cneo, Old English cnēo(w); cognate with German, Dutch knie, Old Norse knē, Gothic kniu, Latin genu, Greek góny, Sanskrit jānu knee

Examples for knee

Now Benny lifted his head up, slapped his knee, and laughed so hard that he almost tumbled over backward.

She wears jeans and knee boots--the rubber kind you wear to work in the yard.

Hot tears fell on Harriet's fashion-book as it lay on her knee.

I was hit in the left knee, but the bullet only grazed my knee.

She unfolded a Star clipping and proudly spread it upon my knee.

knee deep in mud, sweat mixing with rain, they forced the Land Rover through the jungle.

He sat forward in his chair, his hands folded around his knee, and looked at it.

She merely turned her head and rubbed his knee with her nose.

He had somehow injured his knee that he could not walk a step.

At 15, she developed iliotibial band syndrome, injuring her knee, and had to surrender her dream.