knuckle
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
- 2.
(broadly)(by extension) A mechanical joint.
- 3.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- 4.
The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
- 5.
A cut of meat of various kinds.
Beef knuckle is from the knee joint. Pork knuckle, or ham hock, is from the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the leg.
- 6.
(obsolete)The joint of a plant.
- 7.
(shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
- 8.
A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
brass knuckles
- 9.
(skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.
- 2.
(slang, transitive)To strike or punch.
- 3.
(intransitive)To bend the fingers.
- 4.
(intransitive)To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- 5.
(figuratively, intransitive)(intransitive, figurative) To yield.
Đồng nghĩa: knuckle under
- 6.
(snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
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From Middle English knokel (finger joint), from Old English cnucel (the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint), from *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (knuckle, knot, bump), as *knukô + *-ilaz. Cognate with knokkel knuckle, Knökel knuckle, Knöchel, knykill. More at knock.