Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
- noun A cutting edge; a blade.
- intransitive verb To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
- intransitive verb Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
- intransitive verb To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife.
- idiom (under the knife) Undergoing surgery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cutting-instrument consisting of a comparatively short blade and a handle, adapted for easy use with the hand.
- noun In a wider sense, any small cutting-tool, or any part of a tool or machine having a sharp edge for cutting or scraping: as, the knives of a mowing-machine, printing-press, meat-chopper, straw-cutter, etc.
- noun A sword or cutlas; a long cutting-weapon.
- noun A saddlers' cutting-tool with a sharp convex edge.
- To stab or kill with a knife.
- To endeavor to defeat in a secret or underhand way in an election, as a candidate of one's own party. [Political slang, U.S.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
- noun A sword or dagger.
- noun (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (
Scleria latifolia ), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. - noun mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.
- transitive verb (Hort.) To prune with the knife.
- transitive verb Low To cut or stab with a knife.
- transitive verb Slang, U. S. Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
utensil or atool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (theblade ), usuallysharpened on one edge, attached to ahandle . The blade may be pointed for piercing. - noun A
weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended forslashing and/orstabbing and too short to be called asword . Adagger . - noun Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a
chipper . - verb transitive To cut with a knife.
- verb transitive To use a knife to
injure orkill bystabbing ,slashing , or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as aweapon . - verb intransitive To cut through as if with a knife.
- verb transitive To
betray , especially in the context of apolitical slate . - verb transitive To positively
ignore , especially in order todenigrate . comparecut
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- noun any long thin projection that is transient
- noun a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- verb use a knife on
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_!
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A man with a knife is approaching a woman with her baby.
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If you don't have a gun, then a knife is the best survival tool.
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For general purposes, a knife is a knife is a knife. hmphargh
Learn To Sharpen Good Knives With Water Stones | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Also – the knife is a pocketknife with a folding blade.
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A sharp knife is key, but for all this said, unless you have a true appreciation for materials, need a survival knife, need resistance to salt water, or need a knife that will cut long before sharpening, it is hard to go wrong when you buy a good brand name knife and diamond sharpening stones.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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If you don't have a gun, then a knife is the best survival tool.
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A sharp knife is key, but for all this said, unless you have a true appreciation for materials, need a survival knife, need resistance to salt water, or need a knife that will cut long before sharpening, it is hard to go wrong when you buy a good brand name knife and diamond sharpening stones.
Which is a better material for a knife, high carbon steel or stainless steel? 2009
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Rifles get banged and grimey but my knife is always the first thing that gets cleaned when I get home from the woods.
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TAYLOR: I had just completed a game of what they called knife or life.
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