knee
/ni/ nom A1En français : genou
- In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank. · Penny was wearing a miniskirt, so she skinned her exposed knees when she fell.
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- The tarsal joint, uniting the tarsometatarsus and the tibiotarsus (homologous to the human ankle).
- The joint uniting the tibiotarsus and the femur, typically hidden beneath plumage.
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point. · the knee of a graph
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
Pluriel knees
Dans la bibliothèque
O'er the lawn up to my knee.
“May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—”
The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went down on one knee.
And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.
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