knuckle
指关节,指关节部位,指关节部,指关节处
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Definitions
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- : a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- : the rounded prominence of such a joint when the finger is bent.
- : a joint of meat, consisting of the parts about the carpal or tarsal joint of a quadruped.
- : an angle or protrusion at the intersection of two members or surfaces, as in the timbers of a ship or in a roof.
- : brass knuckles.
- : a cylindrical projecting part on a hinge, through which an axis or pin passes; the joint of a hinge.
- : a bend in a wire crossing another wire.
- : one of the ridges left at the front end by longitudinal flutes carved to accommodate the fingers.
- : Nautical. a pronounced edge formed by a change in the form of the shell of a hull.
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knuck·led, knuck·ling.
- : to rub or press with the knuckles.
- : Marbles. to shoot from the thumb and forefinger.
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- : knuckle down, to apply oneself vigorously and earnestly; become serious: Just knuckle down for an hour or so and finish the work.Also knuckle under. to submit; yield.
Phrases
- knuckle down
- knuckle under
- rap someone's knuckles
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Use your tape and measure the width of your hand at your knuckles.
He also did not turn himself into law enforcement, she said, and instead was found at his sister’s home in Macon, 75 miles from home, with brass knuckles, multiple guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Glide your knuckles down slowly, applying constant pressure.
As a variant, keep your eyes looking forward and glide your knuckles down toward your shoulder in a straight line.
I’ve knocked on wood so many times since March that my knuckles are covered in callouses.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, my third book, changed my life and put me on bare-knuckle terms with my abilities.
If you think of yourself as more than a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, you can stand up and be respectful.
How could it be that this word, and not “what” or “why,” has caused a bare-knuckle brawl at such a stratospheric social level?
I like the term knuckle dragger, but I don't want to cast any undeserved slurs at Neanderthals.
In Silicon Valley it's a war for talent—an all-out knuckle-drag war.
He had their undivided attention in a moment, without the rapping of Miss Carringtons hard knuckle on the table top.
Bobby said that that knuckle of Gee Gees middle finger had been abnormally developed by continued bringing the class to order.
By chance he heard us warned for guard, and at once went to his tent and returned with a ham knuckle.
Three were used at a time, thrown from the fritillus, as were the knuckle-bones (Fig. 132), but the sides counted that came up.
If this rounding is carried to excess we get the Knuckle thread shown at (d).