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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knee
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a knee/heart/stomach etc operation
▪ He is almost back to full fitness after a knee operation.
ankle/knee socks
▪ The girls wore navy dresses and white ankle socks.
bring sth/sb to their knees (=make it almost impossible for sb/sth to continue)
▪ A severe drought brought the country to its knees.
chest/waist/knee etc high (=as high as your chest etc)
▪ The grass was knee-high.
fall to/on your knees (=move down to the ground so that your body is resting on your knees)
▪ She fell to her knees beside his body.
heart/knee/brain etc surgery
▪ She is now fit again after knee surgery.
hug your knees/arms/legs etc
▪ Sarah sat on the floor, hugging her knees.
knee breeches
knee cap
knee/elbow/shin/shoulder pad (=a pad that you wear to protect a part of your body when you are playing a sport)
knee/neck/hip/elbow etc joint
▪ a permanently damaged knee joint
made...go weak at the knees
▪ His smile made her go weak at the knees.
neck/back/knee brace (=a brace that supports the neck etc)
▪ He was being fitted for a back brace.
on your hands and knees (=in a crawling position)
▪ They got down on their hands and knees to search.
sank to...knees (=he went down into a kneeling position)
▪ The minister sank to his knees and prayed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bended
▪ Resting his weight on his bended knee, he was staring motionless over a precipice towards the lake.
▪ We need not crawl on bended knees.
▪ Oh ... I am looking for a people who will come on bended knee.
▪ And they vote and they vote and the politicians come on bended knees.
▪ He wouldn't go to Wyvis Hall now if Adam invited him, if he went down on his bended knees.
▪ On bended knee I ask you to ponder this phenomenon.
▪ I bet you beg for it on bended knees!
▪ Perhaps it was all of that singing on bended knees or from seated positions.
left
▪ Reverse as your right elbow touches your left knee, turning to see the left side.
▪ Barton had problems with his left knee in training camp at Rocklin.
▪ With your hands lightly placed at the sides of your head, sit up to touch left knee with right elbow.
▪ Center Chris Dalman sprained his left knee.
▪ Look at the bend in his left knee: it is an indication of how crouched and low you should be.
▪ They stripped off his clothes, and that was when he saw that his left knee was shattered.
▪ Kneel on your left knee, head down.
▪ Semenik tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee Saturday.
right
▪ Cross left foot over right knee.
▪ The bruised right knee that hampered him until last week apparently is quite well.
▪ As the hands go down to the floor, the right knee is cocked up near the right shoulder.
▪ Charles Smith has missed the last five games with a chronically sore right knee.
▪ He had a punk haircut and used his right knee to drive down the middle of the road.
▪ A senior, Anchrum missed 33 games after reconstructive surgery on his right knee.
▪ Trent kicked at the man's right knee.
▪ Phoenix center Hot Rod Williams left the game with a strained right knee and played only seven minutes.
weak
▪ Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees.
▪ Chef Michael Almos' creations may leave you weak in the knees.
▪ Instead, here she was, going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl.
▪ Or we would shower in our bathroom, whose tiles and design would make Martha Stewart weak at the knees.
▪ A quick bit of mental arithmetic was enough to make Chrissy weak at the knees.
▪ Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees.
▪ The idea makes me feel weak at the knees.
■ NOUN
injury
▪ Only McManaman, with a serious knee injury, will still be on the sidelines when they return to Villa Park tonight.
▪ A couple of knee injuries put a damper on his football career.
▪ By spring practice, tailback Skip Hicks is expected to be fully recovered from knee injuries.
▪ Originally from Plymouth, she was a very keen squash and tennis player before suffering a knee injury at skiing.
▪ Saunders won just four games in 1997, his season slowed by a knee injury.
▪ One year, thanks to a knee injury, I went on crutches.
surgery
▪ Inspiration Four hamstring operations and two bouts of knee surgery later, Ian Snodin is back and back in central midfield.
▪ Jenkins made his first 1996 appearance on Sunday, after recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery he had last month.
▪ Carl Bradshaw starts for United, but Brian Gayle is out after knee surgery.
▪ McElroy has the breakaway speed that seems to have eluded Hearst since knee surgery during his rookie season.
▪ But now his injuries have caught up with him, despite a brave battle to recover from recent knee surgery.
▪ And the Suns may get forward Danny Manning, who is recovering from knee surgery, back soon.
▪ Stoke, still searching for a League win, recall £250,000 front-man Biggins, fit after knee surgery.
▪ He started the majority of games in the final two months of the season as Clyde Drexler recovered from knee surgery.
■ VERB
bend
▪ Still lying down, bend the knees and raise the legs. 9.
▪ Lie flat, bend the knees then straighten the legs upwards so that they are at right angles to your body. 14.
▪ Many beginners have difficulty in bending the knee, and I don't mean to their art tutor!
▪ Red bends her knees and pushes off, pretending to take a shot.
fall
▪ She stumbled and fell to her knees.
▪ He fell to his knees before her.
▪ Francis Lee received a little kick and fell on his knees.
▪ She fell on her knees before them and begged them to take her with them.
▪ Too fast for his shorter legs and he fell on his knees.
▪ A woman, gone faint, fell to her knees.
▪ Von Stein had fallen to his knees, and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab.
▪ One man fell to his knees as the Archbishop drew near.
hug
▪ She retreated back downstairs, and climbed on to the mildewed sofa, hugging her knees up to her chin.
▪ Petey finally sat down on the bank and faced the lake hugging his knees.
▪ She leaned forward, hugging her knees.
▪ Wet as a water rat, she sat hugging her knees.
▪ She sat in the chair, hugging her knees, staring at Stephen as if he were an enemy.
▪ Joseph hugged his knees by the fire.
▪ Emmie sat at his feet, silently hugging her knees.
▪ He sat with his back to the pale bark of a birch and hugged his knees to his chest.
injure
▪ One has been slowed by an injured knee: cornerback Deon Figures.
▪ Superman never would have injured his knee in the first place.
▪ He picked up 73 yards on 14 rushes before injuring a knee while playing defense in the third quarter.
▪ Sharpe had injured a knee in a game a few weeks earlier.
raise
▪ To raise her knees would cause the ropes securing her body to cut into her flesh.
▪ He drove with his left pants leg raised above the knee.
▪ Lying on your back, raise the knees towards the chest.
▪ He raised himself to his knees.
▪ Lying down with hands at either side of your head, raise your knees and cross the ankles.
▪ Still lying on the floor, raise your knees and cross the ankles.
▪ The second your feet touch the water you raise your knees and crumple into a ball.
▪ The right leg is raised to about knee height and is then thrust sharply backwards at the opponent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a trick knee/ankle/shoulder etc
be the bee's knees
▪ I think that show is just the bee's knees.
draw your knees up
▪ He drew his knees up, preparing himself to fight off any further attack.
▪ Paige drew her knees up inside the bag, resting her chin on them.
knee/hip/joint replacement
▪ A prosthesis used in a joint replacement costs between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000.
▪ Carrying out the precision drilling in a delicate hip replacement operation is the world's first robotic surgeon.
▪ For those over 65, it is knee or hip replacement.
▪ I had been having trouble with arthritis for years, and nine years ago had a hip replacement.
▪ Just two months ago, he underwent bowel and hip replacement surgery that cost $ 120, 000.
▪ One person's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time.
▪ She has undergone three hip replacement surgeries in the last three years.
▪ With 40,000 hip replacements a year, making joints is big business, now mostly done by multi-nationals companies.
learn/be taught sth at your mother's knee
on bended knee
▪ George asked her to marry him on bended knee.
▪ The TV network begged her on bended knee to return to the program.
twist your ankle/wrist/knee
▪ As he fell, he twisted his ankle.
▪ Harriet slipped on the stairs and twisted her ankle.
▪ If I had twisted my ankle, would people be making such a big deal of it?
▪ One morning as she was rushing back to the changing rooms one of the models slipped and twisted her ankle.
▪ She twisted her ankle while getting off the lift and had made the long trip down in pain.
▪ Twice in the morning he left the field, limping and in pain after twisting his knee.
water on the brain/knee
▪ The youngster was destined to follow many of his ancestors by dying from the family curse hydrocephalus water on the brain.
weak at the knees
▪ A quick bit of mental arithmetic was enough to make Chrissy weak at the knees.
▪ Instead, here she was, going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl.
▪ Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees.
▪ Or we would shower in our bathroom, whose tiles and design would make Martha Stewart weak at the knees.
▪ Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees.
▪ The idea makes me feel weak at the knees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Billy's jeans had holes in both knees.
▪ Diaz's leg had to be amputated at the knee.
▪ The only thing I remember from my ski lessons was "keep your knees bent."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And bringing an already faltering economy to its knees, transport workers brought the country to a virtual standstill in December.
▪ Carrington did not suit up because of his sore knee.
▪ Desmond Fairchild, paddling through the spotlights, his trousers rolled up to his hairy knees, shouted something at her.
▪ It feathered her skin with goosebumps, doubled her pulse-rate, melted her knees.
▪ She could, according to Marian, balance on her hands with her knees drawn up close to her chest.
▪ Surrounded by breathing, close enough to neighbours to touch knees.
▪ Was it because I too went down on to my knees into the dirt to find a lost one?
▪ We need not crawl on bended knees.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a trick knee/ankle/shoulder etc
be the bee's knees
▪ I think that show is just the bee's knees.
knee/hip/joint replacement
▪ A prosthesis used in a joint replacement costs between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000.
▪ Carrying out the precision drilling in a delicate hip replacement operation is the world's first robotic surgeon.
▪ For those over 65, it is knee or hip replacement.
▪ I had been having trouble with arthritis for years, and nine years ago had a hip replacement.
▪ Just two months ago, he underwent bowel and hip replacement surgery that cost $ 120, 000.
▪ One person's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time.
▪ She has undergone three hip replacement surgeries in the last three years.
▪ With 40,000 hip replacements a year, making joints is big business, now mostly done by multi-nationals companies.
learn/be taught sth at your mother's knee
water on the brain/knee
▪ The youngster was destined to follow many of his ancestors by dying from the family curse hydrocephalus water on the brain.
weak at the knees
▪ A quick bit of mental arithmetic was enough to make Chrissy weak at the knees.
▪ Instead, here she was, going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl.
▪ Now we know the real meaning of going weak at the knees.
▪ Or we would shower in our bathroom, whose tiles and design would make Martha Stewart weak at the knees.
▪ Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees.
▪ The idea makes me feel weak at the knees.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She struggled free and kneed her attacker in the groin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He must have felt that Fate, having knocked him down, had nipped back to knee him in the nuts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knee

Knee \Knee\ (n[=e]), v. t. To supplicate by kneeling. [Obs.]

Fall down, and knee The way into his mercy.
--Shak

Knee

Knee \Knee\ (n[=e]), n. [OE. kne, cneo, As. cne['o], cne['o]w; akin to OS. knio, kneo, OFries. kn[=i], G. & D. knie, OHG. chniu, chneo, Icel. kn[=e], Sw. kn["a], Dan. kn[ae], Goth. kniu, L. genu, Gr. go`ny, Skr. j[=a]nu, [root]23

  1. Cf. Genuflection.] 1. In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

  2. (Anat.)

    1. The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg.

    2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.

  3. (Mech. & Shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.

  4. A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy.

    Give them title, knee, and approbation.
    --Shak.

    Knee breeches. See under Breeches.

    Knee holly, Knee holm (Bot.), butcher's broom.

    Knee joint. See in the Vocabulary.

    Knee timber, timber with knees or angles in it.

    Knee tribute, or Knee worship, tribute paid by kneeling; worship by genuflection. [Obs.] ``Knee tribute yet unpaid.''
    --Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knee

Old English cneo, cneow "knee," from Proto-Germanic *knewam (cognates: Old Norse kne, Old Saxon kneo, Old Frisian kni, Middle Dutch cnie, Dutch knie, Old High German kniu, German Knie, Gothic kniu), from PIE root *g(e)neu- (cognates: Sanskrit janu, Avestan znum, Hittite genu "knee;" Greek gony "knee," gonia "corner, angle;" Latin genu "knee"). Knee-slapper "funny joke" is from 1955.

knee

early 13c., "to bend the knee, kneel," from Old English cneowian, from cneow (see knee (n.)). The meaning "to strike with the knee" is first recorded 1892. Related: Kneed; kneeing.\n

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Wiktionary
knee

n. 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 (context shipbuilding English) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent. 5 (context archaic English) An act of kneel, 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. vb. 1 (context transitive archaic English) To kneel to. 2 (context transitive English) To poke or strike with the knee.

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WordNet
knee

  1. n. hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella [syn: knee joint, articulatio genus, genu]

  2. joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee [syn: stifle]

  3. cloth covering consisting of the part of a trouser leg that covers the knee

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Knee

The knee joint joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two articulations: one between the femur and tibia (tibiofemoral joint), and one between the femur and patella (patellofemoral joint). It is the largest joint in the human body. The knee is a modified hinge joint, which permits flexion and extension as well as slight internal and external rotation. The knee joint is vulnerable to injury and to the development of osteoarthritis.

It is often termed a compound joint having tibiofemoral and patellofemoral components. (The fibular collateral ligament is often considered with tibiofemoral components.)

Knee (disambiguation)

Knee may mean (besides a knee joint typical of mammals):

Other knee-like joint structures in animals:
  • Equine knee, in horses and their kin
  • Avian knee, in birds
  • Arthropod knee, in legged kin of shellfish and insects
Non-animal structures with relatively sharp bends:
  • Knee (construction), a bent piece of wood that takes stress, as commonly used in construction of wooden boats
  • Cypress knee, structure on cypress-tree root

Knee or Knees can be a surname:

  • Allan Knee, a film and television writer and playwright
  • Bernie Knee (1924–1994), a singer/musician
  • Christian Knees (born 1981), a German cyclist who rides for Team Milram in the UCI ProTour
  • Derek Knee, (1922–2014), an interpreter for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
  • Fred Knee (1868–1914), a British trade unionist and socialist politician
  • Miriam Knee (born 1938), a former Australian cricketer

Knee can also refer to:

  • A strike with the knee, see Knee (strike)
  • A distinctive riverbend, see Knee (geography)
  • knee of the curve, for example see Maximum power point tracker
  • The knee setting in an electronic audio compressor device (soft or hard knee)
  • Knees, the German name for Satchinez, Timiş County, Romania
  • Knee energy region in physics is an energy spectra for cosmic rays
  • Quarterback kneel, a football play
Knee (strike)

A knee strike (commonly referred to simply as a knee) is a strike with the knee, either with the kneecap or the surrounding area. Kneeing is a disallowed practice in many combat sports, especially to the head of a downed opponent. Styles such as Muay Thai and several mixed martial arts organizations allow kneeing depending on the positioning of the fighters.

Knee (construction)

In woodworking, a knee is a natural or cut, curved piece of wood. Knees, sometimes called ships knees, are a common form of bracing in boat building and occasionally in timber framing. A knee rafter in carpentry is a bent rafter used to gain head room in an attic.

Knee (geography)

A knee, or river knee, is a bend in a river changing its course significantly within a short distance to a different direction (in an angle of around 90 degrees). It is different from a riverbend which is a single isolated bend, and from a meander which consists of several bends in a sinuous course, both without changing the river's main course. In European history, many river knees have proven to be strategically favorable locations to found cities.

Many rivers have significant bends due to geological reasons:

  • the Rhine knee in Basel, Switzerland, the river's most significant knee - other knees appear in German cities Wiesbaden and Bingen
  • the Danube knee in Vác, Hungary
  • the Volga knee at Volgograd, Russia
  • the Rhône knee at Martigny, Switzerland
  • the Petitcodiac knee at Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, locally known as Le Coude, in English erroneously called "the Bend"

Furthermore, some riverbends are called "knees" although they are actually single bends or a part of meanders:

  • the "Vltava knee" in Prague, Czech Republic
  • the "Elbe knee" at Königstein Fortress, Germany
  • the "Rhine knee" at Düsseldorf, Germany (see also :de:Rheinkniebrücke)

Category:Limnology Category:Fluvial landforms Category:Rivers

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Usage examples of "knee".

She stated the only reason she went to the doctor was due to the abrasions on her knee getting infected.

She showed me a large bruise on her left thigh and healing abrasions on her left knee.

Initially, she appeared to have some bruising beneath one eye and faint scratches and abrasions on one knee.

On October 9, 2000, Liysa arrived at a hospital emergency room with a bruised eye and abrasions on her knee.

Rather than take the time to cross on the bridge, she waded into the acequia, the water coming only to her knees.

We could not, I adjudged, shifting my knees lower on his barrel, gain the trees before true day.

Lord Ado sank to his knees and collapsed on the floor, she switched the two pieces of chain to one hand.

Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.

Edgar, came jostling after to share her knee with her scripts and suckle at her bosom while she learned her lines, yet she was always word-perfect even when she played two parts in the one night, Ophelia or Juliet and then, say, Little Pickle, the cute kid in the afterpiece, for the audiences of those days refused to leave the theatre after a tragedy unless the players changed costumes and came back to give them a little something extra to cheer them up again.

When sum in at fell aght,--soft an red, An it rested across ov his knee.

One time he ducked the attack, skidding to his knees but coming right back up agilely to run on.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

Out upon the other, on hands and knees, clinging desperately to the aileron brace, was the hatless, water-soaked figure of a man.

Tonight, for just an instant-was Alec tightened his grip on the sword lying across his knees.

That seemed to satisfy Amir in some obscure manner and he kissed each of her knees then placed his mouth to the soft muscle inside each limb and fiercely suckled and bit, leaving a bold mark like a brand on each.