Knee vs Foot - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between knee and foot

is that knee is in humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank while foot is (countable) a biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg (jump).

As verbs the difference between knee and foot

is that knee is (archaic) to kneel to while foot is to use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

knee

English

Noun

(en-noun)

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.

In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.

The part of a garment that covers the knee.

(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.

(archaic) An act of kneeling, especially to show respect or courtesy.

* circa'' 1605 , (William Shakepeare), ''(Timon of Athens) , Act III, scene iii, line 36

Give them title, knee , and approbation.

To make a knee .

Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line, "the knee of a graph", an inflection point.

A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.

Derived terms

* down on one's knees * kneecap * kneejerk * kneel * kneepan * kneesies * knees-up

Verb

(d)

(archaic) To kneel to.

* 1605': I could as well be brought / To '''knee his throne and, squire-like, pension beg / To keep base life afoot. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear II.ii

To poke or strike with the knee.

Anagrams

* 1000 English basic words

foot

English

(wikipedia foot)

Noun

(feet)

(countable) A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. (jump)

(countable, anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. (jump)

(uncountable, often used attributively) Travel by walking. (walking)

(countable) The base or bottom of anything. (jump)

(countable) The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.

(countable) The end of a rectangular table opposite the head. (jump)

(countable) A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. (jump)

(countable) A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

(military, pluralonly) Foot soldiers; infantry. (jump)

* Clarendon

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot .

(countable, cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.

(countable, sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.

(countable, printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page. (jump)

(countable, prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem. (jump)

(countable, phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.

(countable, nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.

(countable, billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.

(countable, botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.

(b ) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

(countable, malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.

(countable, molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein. (jump)

(countable, geometry) The foot of a line perpendicular to a given line is the point where the lines intersect.

Fundamental principle; basis; plan. (never used in the plural)

* Berkeley

Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason.

Recognized condition; rank; footing. (never used in the plural)

* Walpole

As to his being on the foot of a servant.

Usage notes

* (jump) The ordinary plural of the unit of measurement is (feet), but in many contexts, (term) itself may be used ("he is six foot two"). This is a reflex of the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) genitive plural.Rich Alderson, “Why do we say ‘30 years old’, but ‘a 30-year-old man’?”, in Mark Israel, the alt.usage.english FAQ. * It is sometimes abbreviated ' , such as in tables, lists or drawings.

Derived terms

* a closed mouth gathers no feet * afoot * acre-foot * athlete's foot * best foot * Bigfoot * board foot * clubfoot * Chinese foot * cubic foot * footage * foot-and-mouth disease * football * footboard * footboy * foot brake * footbridge * footcandle * footfall * foot fault * footgear * foothill * foothold * footing * foot-in-mouth disease * foot iron * foot landraker * footlights * foot line * footlocker * footloose * foot louse * footly * footman * foot-mouth * footnote * footpad * footpath * foot-pound * foot post * footprint * foot pump * footrest * footrope * footsie * footsie-wootsies * foot soldier * footsore * footstep * footstone * footstool * foot warmer * footwear * footwell * footwork * footworn * four foot * get one's foot in the door * Hong Kong foot * immersion foot * itchy feet * Japanese foot * put one's foot in one's mouth * rabbit's foot * Roman foot * shoot oneself in the foot * six foot * square foot * start off on the wrong foot * trench foot * wrongfoot * See also

Coordinate terms

* inch, yard, mile * (jump) head, sides * (jump) head, body * head, leech, luff * (jump) head, cleft, neck * (jump) horse

Verb

(en verb)

To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

To pay (a bill).

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

(Dryden)

To walk.

(Shakespeare)

To tread.

to foot the green

(Tickell)

(obsolete) To set on foot; to establish; to land.

* Shakespeare

What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?

To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).

(Shakespeare)

To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up .

to foot (or foot up) an account

Derived terms

* foot the bill

References

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