Knuckle vs. Sandwich — What's the Difference?

The knuckles are the joints of the fingers. The word is cognate to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as the Dutch "knokkel" (knuckle) or German "Knöchel" (ankle), i.e., Knöchlein, the diminutive of the German word for bone (Knochen).

A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a portable, convenient finger food in the Western world, though over time it has become prevalent worldwide.

The prominence of the dorsal aspect of a joint of a finger, especially of one of the joints connecting the fingers to the hand.

An item of food consisting of two pieces of bread with a filling between them, eaten as a light meal

A rounded protuberance formed by the bones in a joint.

Relating to a sandwich course

A cut of meat centering on the carpal or tarsal joint, as of a pig.

Insert or squeeze (someone or something) between two other people or things, typically in a restricted space or so as to be uncomfortable

The part of a hinge through which the pin passes.

Two or more slices of bread with a filling such as meat or cheese placed between them.

A sharp angle formed by the meeting of two surfaces, especially two ship's timbers.

A partly split long or round roll containing a filling.

Knuckles Brass knuckles.

One slice of bread covered with a filling.

To press, rub, or hit with the knuckles.

Something resembling a sandwich

To shoot (a marble) with the thumb over the bent forefinger.

To insert (one thing) tightly between two other things often of differing character or quality. "She showed me her wedding band, which was sandwiched on the same finger between two prettier, fancier rings" (Dan Leone).

Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.

To collide with or crash into (a person, for example) with impacts on opposing sides

(by extension) A mechanical joint.

To make room or time for

A cut of meat.

A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serve(s) as the wrapper or container of some other food.

The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.

Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.

(UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.

(obsolete) The joint of a plant.

(archaic) A sandwichman one who wears a sandwich board.

(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.

To place one item physically between two other, usually flat, items.

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.

(figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.

The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.

(sex) To double penetrate

(transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.

To feed sandwiches.

To strike or punch.

To eat sandwiches.

(intransitive) To bend the fingers.

(US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner. en

(intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

To yield.

To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

To land on the knuckle of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.

Two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers.

Make into a sandwich

The kneejoint, or middle joint, of either leg of a quadruped, especially of a calf; - formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.

Insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects;

The joint of a plant.

The joining parts of a hinge through which the pin or rivet passes; a knuckle joint.

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.

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; - called also knuckle duster, knuckles or brass knuckles.

To yield; to submit; - used with down, to, or under.

To beat with the knuckles; to pummel.

A joint of a finger when the fist is closed

Press or rub with the knuckles

Shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground