on one's knees
跪在地上,跪地,跪着,跪下
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Definitions
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- : Anatomy. the joint of the leg that allows for movement between the femur and tibia and is protected by the patella; the central area of the leg between the thigh and the lower leg.
- : Zoology. the corresponding joint or region in the hind leg of a quadruped; stifle.
- : a joint or region likened to this but not anatomically homologous with it, as the tarsal joint of a bird, the carpal joint in the forelimb of the horse or cow, etc.
- : the part of a garment covering the knee.
- : something resembling a bent knee, especially a rigid or braced angle between two framing members.
- : Also called hip, shoulder. Furniture. the inward curve toward the top of a cabriole leg.
- : Building Trades. the junction of the top and either of the uprights of a bent.a curved member for reinforcing the junction of two pieces meeting at an angle.
- : Also called kneeler. a stone cut to follow a sharp return angle.
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kneed, knee·ing.
- : to strike or touch with the knee.
- : to secure with a knee.
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kneed, knee·ing.
- : Obsolete. to go down on the knees; kneel.
Phrases
- bring to one's knees
- on bended knee
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Instead, the team took MRI scans of patients’ knees and simulated the process of what a faster imaging process would have created by stripping some of the raw data out, and then used AI to knit that data into a complete picture.
For coach Brad Stevens, the answer should be found by turning him loose in a simple sequence that has brought opponents to their knees all season.
“Again, not outrageous miniskirts—you know, like a couple of inches above her knees, not crazy,” Roberts says.
The proverbial knee, of course, is the one that remained on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Its height extends from a batter’s knees to the middle of his chest.
Do you think of power suits for men and knee-covering skirts for women?
It is not a knee-jerk response to a sudden perceived threat.
This whole thing about a black-and-white culture of knee-jerk reactions is reinforced by television.
He started Spinal Solutions in 1999 and launched a firm selling knee and hip implants three years later.
At 15, she developed iliotibial band syndrome, injuring her knee, and had to surrender her dream.
That his friend had withdrawn, was a pledge of his pacific wishes; and, with a lightened countenance, Louis rose from his knee.
To drop on one knee and level his piece was the work of an instant, but unfortunately he snapped a dry twig in doing so.
Her left knee was supported on pillows, and the bed-clothes were raised away from it, for it could tolerate no weight whatever.
With a low moan her head sunk upon the old man's knee, and she shook and trembled with violent emotion.
As the expression, "every knee shall bow to me," cannot be confined to that alone, so neither can that which immediately follows.