Knife

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
  • n. A cutting edge; a blade.
  • v. To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
  • v. Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife: The boat knifed through the waves.
  • idiom. under the knife Informal Undergoing surgery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
  • n. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a chipper.
  • v. To cut with a knife.
  • v. To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
  • v. To cut through as if with a knife.
  • v. To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
  • v. To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A sword or dagger.
  • v. To prune with the knife.
  • v. To cut or stab with a knife.
  • v. 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).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cutting-instrument consisting of a comparatively short blade and a handle, adapted for easy use with the hand.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A sword or cutlas; a long cutting-weapon.
  • n. 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.]
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
  • n. any long thin projection that is transient
  • n. a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
  • v. use a knife on
  • Verb Form
    knifed    knifes    knifing    knives   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    projection   
    Variant
    knives   
    Form
    knifed    knifing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    stab    betray   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Fife    Life    co-wife    fife    life    rife    saif    strife    wife   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sword    dagger    weapon    stick    tool    spear    clothe    arrow    piece    tooth