📖 K — The English dictionary · page 7

knack — Everyday, meaning 1: A special skill or clever way of doing something, often one that is hard to explain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A habit or tendency to do something, often by accident, like «a knack for getting into trouble».↗ Example: She has a knack for solving puzzles.↗ · Opening this jar is easy once you get the knack.↗ · There's a knack to riding a unicycle.↗ · My dog has a knack for finding mud.↗ · Tom has a knack for making people laugh.↗ · I finally got the knack of long division.↗ · Grandma has a knack with plants; everything she grows is huge.↗ · "My dear friend," said the Lion, "how did you get the knack of it so well?"↗ The Fox replied, "Me?↗

knacker — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang, UK) To knacker something is to break it or wear it out; to knacker someone is to make them very tired.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun, old-fashioned, UK) A knacker is a person whose job is buying old or dead horses and turning them into meat, glue or other products; a knacker's yard is the place where this is done.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, Ireland) A knacker is an insulting word for a rough or badly behaved person; it is offensive, especially to Irish Travellers.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rude, UK, plural «knackers») A slang word for testicles.↗ Example: (slang) Don't knacker yourself on the first lap.↗ · (slang) I've knackered my knee playing football.↗ · That long walk knackered me out.↗ · The old horse was sent to the knacker's yard.↗ · (humorous) This old car is ready for the knacker's yard.↗ · (slang) He knackered the printer by jamming paper in it.↗

knackered — Everyday, meaning 1: (slang, UK) Knackered means extremely tired, worn out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, UK) Knackered means broken or too old and worn to work properly.↗ Example: (slang) I'm knackered after that cross-country run.↗ · (slang) Mum was knackered after her night shift.↗ · (slang) My bike is knackered — the chain keeps falling off.↗ · We were all knackered by the end of the camping trip.↗ · (slang) This old phone is completely knackered.↗ · «You look knackered,» said Gran.↗ «Go to bed.»↗

knapsack — Everyday, meaning 1: A bag carried on the back, used for carrying food and things on a journey.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A bag carried on the back for food and things on a journey.↗ Example: He packed bread and cheese in his knapsack.↗ · The raven had a little knapsack on his back.↗ · The student took his knapsack and set off.↗ · I will fill your knapsack—I will fill your pouch.’↗ (The Crimson Fairy Book) · “He had a little knapsack at his back,” said the Raven.↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales) · The student took his knapsack and betook himself to the ferry-house.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

knave — Everyday, meaning 1: (old) A dishonest man who tricks people; a rogue.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (cards) The jack in a pack of playing cards, the card with a young man's picture, between the ten and the queen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A boy or young male servant.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In Alice in Wonderland, the Knave of Hearts is put on trial for stealing the Queen's tarts.↗ Example: The Knave of Hearts was accused of stealing the tarts.↗ · «You knave!» shouted the king in the old play.↗ · In this card game, the knave is worth ten points.↗ · The knave carried the King's crown on a velvet cushion.↗ · The wicked knave tricked the farmer out of his cow.↗ · Alice did not think there was any proof against the Knave.↗ · Put the knave of spades on the queen of hearts.↗ · 'Are you not a great knave?'↗

knead — Everyday, meaning 1: To knead means to press, fold and stretch dough with your hands to make bread.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To knead also means to press and rub muscles, like in a massage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cats «knead» by pushing their paws in and out on something soft.↗ Example: Knead the dough for ten minutes.↗ · My hands got sticky from kneading.↗ · The cat kneaded my lap with its paws.↗ · She kneaded her sore shoulders.↗ · Kneading makes the bread soft and springy.↗ · We kneaded the play dough into a ball.↗ · Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie.↗ · Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.↗ (Torah DEU.28.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.↗ (Torah DEU.28.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.↗ (Torah EXO.12.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.↗ (Prophets 2SA.13.8, JPS 1917)↗ · They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; (Prophets 1SA.28.24, JPS 1917)↗

knee — Everyday, meaning 1: The joint in the middle of your leg where it bends.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your lap when you sit: «Sit on my knee».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The part of trousers that covers the knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Verb: to hit someone with your knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Knee-deep means deep enough for the water to reach your knees.↗ Example: I fell and scraped my knee.↗ · Bend your knees when you land.↗ · Wear knee pads when you skateboard.↗ · The toddler sat on Grandpa's knee.↗ · The water was knee-deep.↗ · There's a hole in the knee of my jeans.↗ · Your kneecap protects the front of your knee.↗ · Kneel on one knee to tie your shoe.↗ · Little Christina sat on Ib's knee.↗ · And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on his face to the earth.↗ (Torah GEN.48.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.↗ (Torah GEN.50.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'↗ (Torah GEN.30.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Why did the knees receive me?↗ (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.↗ (Prophets ISA.35.3, JPS 1917)↗ · All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.17, JPS 1917)↗

kneecap — Everyday, meaning 1: The kneecap is the small, flat, roundish bone at the front of your knee.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare, violent) To kneecap someone means to shoot or hurt them in the knee as a cruel punishment.↗ Example: The kneecap protects the front of your knee joint.↗ · The doctor tapped below my kneecap and my leg jumped.↗ · Wear knee pads to protect your kneecaps.↗ · The proper name for the kneecap is the patella.↗ · She dislocated her kneecap playing netball.↗ · Babies' kneecaps are mostly soft cartilage.↗

kneel — Everyday, meaning 1: To kneel is to go down or stay with one or both knees on the ground.↗ Example: She knelt down to tie her shoelace.↗ · Kneel beside the person and check if they are breathing.↗ · The knight knelt before the queen.↗ · We knelt on the grass to look at the ants.↗ · Grandma kneels on a cushion when she gardens.↗ · The children knelt to pray in the church.↗ · Now the lovers kneel down, and one of them sings:↗ · And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.↗ (Torah GEN.24.11, JPS 1917)↗ · They go and come at His word, and at His command ti)ev pursue like the whirlwind, and kneel before His throne.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · O come, let us bow down and bend the knee; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; (Writings PSA.95.6, JPS 1917)↗ · All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall kneel before Him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.↗ (Writings PSA.22.30, JPS 1917)↗

knew — Early Modern English, meaning 1: To be aware of someone or to recognise them; in the third sentence, to have chosen or loved someone before they were born.↗ Example: And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew him not.↗ (Torah GEN.42.8, JPS 1917) · No one knew what to do.↗ (Fifty Famous Stories Retold) · Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee."↗ Rabbi Luria, gives the Hebrew version which I have translated.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)

knewest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «knewest» means «you knew», a form of «know».↗ e.g. To know something is to have it in your mind as a fact, because you learned it or were told.↗

knife — Everyday, meaning 1: A knife is a tool with a sharp blade and a handle, used for cutting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Knives are used at the table for eating: knife and fork.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To knife someone means to attack with a knife (rare, serious).↗ Example: Use a knife and fork to eat your dinner.↗ · Cut the bread with a bread knife.↗ · Always cut away from your fingers.↗ · Carry a knife with the point facing down.↗ · Don't try to catch a falling knife.↗ · Put the knives in the drawer.↗ · The butter knife is not sharp.↗ · The score was on a knife edge.↗ · He took his knife and cut it open.↗ · And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.↗ (Torah GEN.22.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.↗ (Torah GEN.22.6, JPS 1917)↗ · The person created had a knife in his hand, and was erasing the letter Aleph of the word Emet.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.↗ (Writings PRO.23.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.↗ (Prophets JDG.19.29, JPS 1917)↗

knight — Everyday, meaning 1: In the Middle Ages, a knight was a soldier who fought on horseback in armour and served a king, queen or lord.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the UK today, a knight is a man given an honour by the King or Queen for great service, and he is called «Sir»; to knight someone is to give them this honour.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In chess, the knight is the piece shaped like a horse's head that moves in an L shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (figurative) «A knight in shining armour» is someone who comes to rescue another person.↗ Example: The knight put on his armour and climbed onto his horse.↗ · Knights fought for their lord in battles.↗ · The young page trained for years to become a knight.↗ · The famous scientist was knighted by the King.↗ · In chess, the knight moves in an L shape.↗ · King Arthur's knights sat at a round table.↗ · She called her brother her knight in shining armour.↗ · So the Third Knight failed also.↗

knighthood — Everyday, meaning 1: A knighthood is the title and honour of being a knight, given in the UK by the king or queen to people for great service, so a man is called «Sir» (a woman gets a damehood, «Dame»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) In the Middle Ages, knighthood was the rank of a knight, a trained soldier on horseback who served a lord.↗ Example: The famous scientist received a knighthood.↗ · With his knighthood, he became Sir Tom.↗ · In the Middle Ages, a squire trained for years to earn knighthood.↗ · The king gave him a knighthood for bravery.↗ · A woman gets a damehood, not a knighthood.↗ · Knighthood was linked to rules of chivalry.↗ · He was Sheriff of London, thrice Lord Mayor, and received the honour of knighthood by Henry V.↗

knightly — Everyday, meaning 1: Like a knight: brave, honest, polite and ready to help others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having to do with knights or their way of life.↗ Example: The knightly boy saved the girl from the fire.↗ · A knightly house stood on the hill.↗ · The story tells of knightly deeds and daring.↗

knit — Everyday, meaning 1: To make clothes or other things from wool or yarn by looping it together with two long needles or a machine.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of broken bones: to join and grow back together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Knit your brows» means to frown.↗ Example: Granny knitted me a woolly hat.↗ · I'm learning to knit with big needles.↗ · She knits while she watches TV.↗ · The broken bone will knit together in six weeks.↗ · We are a close-knit family.↗ · He knitted his eyebrows and thought hard.↗ · This jumper is a warm knit.↗ · Marko, his brows knit, his legs contorted, was scarcely able to hold out.↗ [60]↗ · He straineth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.↗ (Writings JOB.40.17, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou hast made my reins; Thou hast knit me together in my mother's womb.↗ (Writings PSA.139.13, JPS 1917)↗ · So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.↗ (Prophets JDG.20.11, JPS 1917)↗