Synonyms of the word knee


KNEEARTICULATION - GENU - GINGLYMUS - JOINT - STIFLE

knee

  • n. In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the…
  • n. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
  • n. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
  • n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee…
  • n. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
  • n. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point.
  • n. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To kneel to.
  • v. (transitive) To poke or strike with the knee.

articulation

  • n. (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged,…
  • n. (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
  • n. (uncountable) The quality, clarity or sharpness of speech.
  • n. (linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
  • n. (music, uncountable) The manner in which something is articulated (tongued, slurred or bowed).
  • n. (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity,…

genu

  • n. (anatomy, zoology) knee.
  • n. A knee-like bend.

ginglymus

  • n. (anatomy) A hinge joint.

joint

  • adj. Done by two or more people or organisations working together.
  • n. The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
  • n. The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
  • n. (anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be…
  • n. The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
  • n. A cut of meat.
  • n. The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
  • n. (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
  • n. (chiefly US slang, somewhat pejorative) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality…
  • n. (slang, with the definite article) prison.
  • n. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
  • v. (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together.
  • v. (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
  • v. (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into…
  • v. (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.

stifle

  • n. A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.
  • n. (veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.
  • v. (transitive) To interrupt or cut off.
  • v. (transitive) To repress, keep in or hold back.
  • v. (transitive) To smother or suffocate.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel smothered etc.
  • v. (intransitive) To die of suffocation.
  • v. (transitive) To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

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