knife
(noun) edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
knife
(noun) a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
tongue, knife
(noun) any long thin projection that is transient; “tongues of flame licked at the walls”; “rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark”
knife, stab
(verb) use a knife on; “The victim was knifed to death”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
knife (plural knives)
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
knife (third-person singular simple present knifes, present participle knifing, simple past and past participle knifed)
(transitive) To cut with a knife.
(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
(intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
(transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
(transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut
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Source: Wiktionary
Knife, n.; pl. Knives. Etym: [OE. knif, AS. cnif; akin to D. knijf, Icel. knifr, Sw. knif, Dan. kniv.]
1. An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.
2. A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. Shak. Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife.
– War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.
Knife, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knifed; p. pr. & vb. n. Knifing.]
1. (Hort.)
Definition: To prune with the knife.
2. To cut or stab with a knife. [Low]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
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