KNIFE
\nˈa͡ɪf], \nˈaɪf], \n_ˈaɪ_f]\
Definitions of KNIFE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
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any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
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edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
By Princeton University
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a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
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any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame licked at the walls"; "rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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..
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To prune with the knife.
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To cut or stab with a knife.
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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).
By Oddity Software
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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..
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To prune with the knife.
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To cut or stab with a knife.
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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).
By Noah Webster.
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A cutting instrument with a sharp-edged steel blade set in a handle; a sharp-edged blade in a machine.
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To stab with a knife.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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An instrument for cutting.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A cutting instrument, used in surgery to divide the soft parts, and which only differs from the bistouri or scalpel in being usually larger. The most common knives are the following:
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A cutting instrument, consisting of a thin sharp-edged blade of steel sunk in or fastened to a handle, of various forms and names according to its purpose and use— pocket or pen-knife; table or carving knife; paper knife; guillotine, &c.;— a dagger; a poniard; any killing instrument; hence, death by slaughter.
