Knesset

Definition

knee /ni:/ n ၁။ (က) ဒူး။ ဒူးေခါင္း။ ဒူးဆစ္။ (ခ) ဒူးခြင္။ ဒူး။ Come and sit on my knee. ၂။ ေဘာင္းဘီ၏ ဒူးဆစ္ပိုင္း၊ ဒူးပိုင္း။ These jeans are torn at the knee. v ( pt , pp kneed ) ဒူးႏွင့္တိုက္သည္။ knee sb (in the groin). ❏ be/go (down) on one's knees [ IDM ] ဒူ ေထားက္သည္။ ❏ bring sb to their knees [ IDM ] [ ဥ ] ဒူးေထာက္ေစ သည္။ The industry was brought to its knees by the strike. ❏ knee-deep adj ၁။ ဒူးဆစ္ထိနက္ေသာ၊ ေရာက္ေသာ။ The snow was knee-deep in places. ၂။ ~ in sth နစ္ေန [ေသာ]။ be knee-deep in trouble/work. adv ဒူးဆစ္ျမဳပ္ေအာင္။ He went knee-deep in the icy water. ❏ knee-high adj ဒူးဆစ္ ထိေရာက္ေသာ။ knee-high grass/boots. ❏ knee-high to a grasshopper [ IDM ] ( joc ) ငယ္ငယ္ေလး ကတည္းက။ သူငယ္ႏွပ္စားအရြယ္ ကတည္းက။ I've known him since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. ❏ knee-jerk adj လုပ္ေနက်အတိုင္း အလို အေလ်ာက္လုပ္ေသာ။ A knee-jerk reaction/response. ❏ knee-length adj ဒူးဆစ္ထိေရာက္ေသာ။ a knee-length skirt. ❏ knees-up n (usu sing ) ( Brit infml ) ျမဴးျမဴးႂကြႂကြ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲ၊ ကပြဲ။

Examples

1. Shirley sat in the corner
2. hugging her knees.
3. We were up to our knees in mud.
4. A serious knee injury
5. [fall/drop etc to your knees] : He dropped to his knees and started praying.
6. His jeans had holes in both knees.