knife

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
3. blade of knife
4. To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife: The boat knifed through the waves.
5. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
6. Undergoing surgery.
7. under the knife, undergoing surgery.
8. to stab with a knife. He knifed her in the back. steek يَطْعَن بالسِّكّين промушвам esfaquear bodnout erstechen stikke ned μαχαιρώνωacuchillar, apuñalar pussitama با چاقو زدن puukottaa donner un coup de couteau לִדקוֹר בְּסַכִּין चाकू से मारना ubosti nožem megkésel menikam stinga með hnífi accoltellare, dare una coltellata ナイフで刺す 칼로 찌르다 nudurti peiliu nodurt ar nazi menikam dengan pisau doorstekendolke, stikke med kniv uderzyć nożem په چاړه وهل esfaquear a da o lovitură de cuţit пырнуть ножом...
9. cuchillo.
10. A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
11. A cutting edge; a blade.
12. To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
13. Informal To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
    Informal
14. (Cookery) a cutting instrument consisting of a sharp-edged often pointed blade of metal fitted into a handle or onto a machine

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Examples

“He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.”

“Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife, a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat⟳.”

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