Word Meanings - KNEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: KNEE

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 , butcher's broom. -- Knee jerk a jerk or kick produced by a blow or sudden strain upon the patellar tendon of the knee, which causes a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle; one of the so-called tendon reflexes. -- 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. "Knee tribute yet unpaid." Milton. (more info) kneo, OFries. kni, G. & D. knie, OHG. chniu, chneo, Icel. kn, Sw. 1. In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg. The joint, or region of the joint, between the thigh and leg. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in man.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KNEE)

• Joint
• Articulation
• junction
• flexure
• elbow
• knee

Related words: (words related to KNEE)

• JOINTWEED
  A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
• JOINTURELESS
  Having no jointure.
• JOINTING
  The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
• JOINT
  A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. (more info) 1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting
• JOINTURESS
  See BOUVIER
• JOINTED
  Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty; as, a jointed doll; jointed structure. "The jointed herbage." J. Philips. -- Joint"ed*ly, adv.
• ELBOWBOARD
  The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.
• JUNCTION
  1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths. 2. The place or point of union, meeting, or junction; specifically, the place where two or
• ELBOW
  A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back. Gwilt. Note: Elbow is used adjectively or as part
• ELBOWCHAIR
  A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.
• JOINTER
  1. One who, or that which, joints. 2. A plane for smoothing the surfaces of pieces which are to be accurately joined; especially: The longest plane used by a joiner. A long stationary plane, for plaining the edges of barrel staves. A bent piece
• JOINTWORM
  The larva of a small, hymenopterous fly , which is found in gall-like swellings on the stalks of wheat, usually at or just above the first joint. In some parts of America it does great damage to the crop.
• ELBOWROOM
  Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.
• FLEXURE
  The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird. (more info) 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak. 2. A turn; a bend; a
• JOINTLESS
  Without a joint; rigid; stiff.
• JOINTLY
  In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately. Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow. Shak.
• JOINTRESS
  A woman who has a jointure. Blackstone.
• JOINTURE
  An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower. The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised. Shak. (more info) 1. A joining;
• JOINT-FIR
  A genus of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.
• ARTICULATION
  A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united , or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance , or they may be more or less freely movable, when the
• UNJOINT
  To disjoint.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• ABARTICULATION
  Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.
• SEJUNCTION
  The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined. Bp. Pearson.
• UNJOINTED
  Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem. (more info) 1. Disjointed; unconnected; hence, incoherent. Shak. 2. Etym:
• INARTICULATION
  Inarticulateness. Chesterfield.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• LAP-JOINTED
  Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
• REJOINT
  1. To reunite the joints of; to joint anew. Barrow. 2. Specifically , to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather. Gwilt.
• CONJUNCTIONAL
  Relating to a conjunction.
• CONJOINTLY
  In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T. Browne.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• EXARTICULATION
  Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.
• WATER JOINT
  A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.
• THERMOJUNCTION
  A junction of two dissimilar conductors used to produce a thermoelectric current, as in one form of pyrometer; a thermocouple.