knee

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  1. noun The joint between the thigh and the lower leg, formed by the articulation of the femur and the tibia and covered anteriorly by the patella.
  2. noun The region of the leg that encloses and supports this joint.
  3. noun An analogous joint or part of a leg of a quadruped vertebrate.
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  • “It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!” The blood had soaked through his pants and his knee was already beginning to swell into a misshapen lump, straining his pants leg. —  Blindfold Game
  • He had raised the other so that the knee was almost touching his chin. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • He had seated himself in a rust-red leather chair and, smoking a long seal-brown cigar, looked as if he had settled himself there On his knee was an airline timetable. —  159 - Death Is A Round Black Spot
  • But just to prove to the entire nation his knee is all right, Sanchez even made a very un-quarterback-like block on a Joe McKnight run. —  LAist
  • As with other pain in joint caused by tendonitis, the knee is also a common joint that can become inflamed and tender due to overuse, a lot of knee straining, and involvement in those sports that require sharp twisting, such as skiing, basketball, tennis, or running. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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  1. Middle English, from Old English cnēo; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English kne, knee, knew, know, cneowe, plural knees, kneen, kneon, cneon, from Anglo-Saxon cneów, contr. cneó = Old Saxon knio, kneo = OFries. kniu, kni, knē = Dutch knie = Middle Low German knē, Low German knē, knei = Old High German kniu, chniu, knio, cneo, chneo, Middle High German G. knie = Icelandic knē = Swedish knä = Danish knœ = Gothic (Moesogothic) kniu = Latin genu (diminutive geniculum, Middle Latin genuculum, later Italian ginocchio = Old Spanish ginojo, Spanish hinojo = Portuguese giolho, joelho = OF. genouil, French genou) = Greek γόνυ = Sanskrit jānu, knee; a common Indo-European word.
  2. from Middle English *kneen, knewien, knowien, from Anglo-Saxon cneówian = Old High German chniuwen, knewen, Middle High German kniewen, knien, German knien, kneel; from the noun.
 

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