English words for 'knee pad'
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noun
prefix
noun
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
- the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (anatomy) In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- (figurative) The presence of a parent etc., where a young child acquires early knowledge.
- The joint uniting the tibiotarsus and the femur, typically hidden beneath plumage.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- (non-technical) The tarsal joint, uniting the tarsometatarsus and the tibiotarsus (homologous to the human ankle).
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
- hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
verb
noun
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
noun
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
noun
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
- a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A fishplate for a railway
verb
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- To strike with the shin.
- To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
- (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
noun
- the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
- the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
adj
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- of metal e.g.
- fixed in your purpose
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
noun
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
verb
noun
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
noun
- (anatomy) The kneecap.
- (zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum).
- (zoology) A scute.
- (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
- (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
noun
- (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
- Debt.
- (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Installment purchase.
- Prison.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
- (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
- any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (‘hock’ is British usage)
verb
- (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
- (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- disable by cutting the hock
adj
noun
verb
noun
- the underside of the foot
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
- the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
- (anatomy) In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- (figurative) The presence of a parent etc., where a young child acquires early knowledge.
- The joint uniting the tibiotarsus and the femur, typically hidden beneath plumage.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- (non-technical) The tarsal joint, uniting the tarsometatarsus and the tibiotarsus (homologous to the human ankle).
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
- hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
verb
noun
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A pothook.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- a circular segment of a curve
- a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
noun
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
noun
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
- a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A fishplate for a railway
verb
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- To strike with the shin.
- To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
- (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
noun
- the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
- the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
noun
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
noun
- (anatomy) The kneecap.
- (zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum).
- (zoology) A scute.
- (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
- (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
noun
- (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
- Debt.
- (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Installment purchase.
- Prison.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
- (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
- any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (‘hock’ is British usage)
verb
- (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
- (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- disable by cutting the hock
noun
- the underside of the foot
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
- lean flesh of any of several flatfish
- the underside of footwear or a golf club
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
- (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
adj
verb
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adj
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- of metal e.g.
- fixed in your purpose
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
noun
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.