Knee

Noun

 * 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)  A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
 * 5) 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

Verb

 * 1)  to kneel to
 * 2)  poke or strike with the knee

Adjectives for Knee
guiding; shaking; shaken; bended; knotted; twinging; naked; rocky; suppliant; feeble;mailed; pliant; trembling; faltering; upgathered; relentless; silken; immaculate; sagged; well-molded; sagging; bony; flaccid; tottering; wobbly; weak; exposed; bare; numb; stalwart; buckling; jutting; drawn-up; clasped; scratched; dimpled; enticing.

Verbs for Knee
bend—; beseech on—s; bow—; brace—; bruise—; climb on—; drop on—; entreat on —s; fall upon—; flex—; implore on—; sink to—; smite—; supplicate on—; —buckle; — fold; —sag; — weaken.

Thesaurus
shin, shoulder, stems, stitch, stumps, suture, swerve, symphysis, tarsus, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, trotters, union, veer, vertex, weld, wrist, zag, zig, zigzag, L, angle, ankle, apex, articulation, bayonet legs, bend, bifurcation, bight, boot, boundary, bowlegs, butt, calf, cant, cervix, chevron, clinch, closure, cnemis, coin, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, corner, coupling, crank, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, dovetail, drumstick, elbow, ell, embrace, foreleg, fork, furcation, gamb, gambrel, gigot, gliding joint, ham, hind leg, hinge, hinged joint, hip, hock, hook, inflection, interface, jamb, join, joining, joint, juncture, kick, knuckle, leg, limb, link, miter, mortise, neck, nook, pivot, pivot joint, podite, point, popliteal space, punt, quoin, rabbet, scarf, scissor-legs, seam, shank,

Etymology
cneo:, from (compare Low German Knee:, Dutch/German knie:, Swedish knä:), from, a thematic derivative of *g̑ónu (compare Hittite genu:, Latin genu:, Tocharian (dual) A kanweṃ: (dual), B kenī:, Ancient Greek góny 'knee', gonía 'corner, angle', Armenian cunr, Avestan žnum, Sanskrit jánu).

Derived terms

 * down on one's knees
 * kneecap
 * kneejerk
 * kneel
 * kneepan
 * knees-up

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܒܘܪܟܐ (burkā)
 * Hebrew: ברכא (birkā)
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: калена
 * Bengali: হাঁটু
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဒူး
 * Catalan: genoll
 * Chamicuro:
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 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: põlv
 * Finnish:
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 * Galician:
 * Gallurese Sardinian:
 * Georgian: მუხლი
 * German:
 * Greek: γόνατο
 * Hebrew: ברך
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: térd
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជង្គង់
 * Korean: 무릎
 * Latgalian:
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 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: celis
 * Limburgish: kneen
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 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: schanugl, schnuogl
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: जानु
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кољено,  колено
 * Roman: koljeno,  koleno
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: koleno
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: మోకాలు
 * Thai: เข่า
 * Turkmen: dyz
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: kien
 * West Frisian:
 * Zulu:


 * Finnish: etupolvi


 * Finnish: polvi


 * Finnish: polvi


 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܒܘܪܟܐ (burkā)
 * Hebrew: ברכא (birkā)


 * Finnish: polvistuminen


 * Finnish: polvi

Anagrams

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