kneeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: nē, IPA^(key): /niː/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ni/
• (廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /kniː/
• 韻: -iː
• Homophone: nee

名詞

knee (plural knees or (廃れた用法 または dialectal) kneen)

1. 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.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto V, page 249:

     He made him ſtoup perforce vnto his knee, / And doe vnwilling worſhip to the Saint, / That on his ſhield depainted he did ſee […]

2. In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
3. The part of a garment that covers the knee.
4. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
   • 1980, Richard W. Unger, The Ship in the Medieval Economy 600-1600, page 41

     Deck beams were supported by hanging knees, triangular pieces of wood typically found underneath the timbers they are designed to support, but in this case found above them.

5. An act of kneeling on one knee, typically to acknowledge an injury, sacrifice or otherwise to show respect.

   After Kyle went down hard on the ice, both teams took a knee as he was carried off on a stretcher.

6. (archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii], line 36:

     Give them title, knee, and approbation.

   To make a knee.

7. Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.

   the knee of a graph

8. A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.

派生語

動詞

knee (三人称単数 現在形 knees, 現在分詞 kneeing, 過去形および過去分詞形 kneed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To kneel to.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:

     I could as well be brought / To knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot

2. (transitive) To poke or strike with the knee.
3. (reflexive) To move on the knees; to use the knees to move.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 489:

     Hassan kneed himself up, over, in, soundlessly, feet on floor, knife out, eyes like blunter knife trying to cut darkness.