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knife English

Meaning knife meaning

What does knife mean?
Definitions in simple English

knife Noun

— A knife is a tool that cuts. He ate with his knife and fork. — A knife is a tool with a thin edge. He worked with a putty knife.

knife Verb

— If you knife someone, you stab someone with a knife; you make a hole in them. The gang knifed him sixteen times.

knife

— noun edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle — noun a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point — noun (= tongue) any long thin projection that is transient tongues of flame licked at the walls rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark — verb use a knife on The victim was knifed to death

Synonyms knife synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as knife?

knife English » English

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Topics knife topics

What do people use knife to talk about?
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking utensil
Work and occupation Tool

Cutting tool
Daily life Food Eat

Eating utensil
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Person Healthy

Injure
Person Life Birth

Help to give birth
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Cut

  • What words refer to cutting something with a particular tool?
    knife ax
Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled

Conjugation knife conjugation

How do you conjugate knife?

knife · verb

Examples knife examples

How do I use knife in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This knife was very useful to me.
Will you lend me your knife?
Cut them with a knife.
This knife is used to cut meat.
This knife is very sharp.
My knife is broken.
You might not need a grater if you have good knife skills.
Could I have a knife and fork, please?
Tom carefully wiped his fingerprints off the knife.
My knife is sharp.
Tom had a knife.
I want a knife.
Please lend me your knife.
Would you lend me your knife?
Put that knife down. You're making me nervous.
The fingerprints on the knife attest to her guilt.
It can be used as a knife.
Cut the cake with a knife.
My knife has lost its edge.
Please cut the cake with a knife.
There is a knife missing.
That is not your knife.
He cut himself free with his knife.
May I borrow your knife?
It is bad manners to eat with a knife.

Movie subtitles

What the fuck is a steak knife?
To a crazy dog, a knife is the medicine.
You punk now dare to put your knife at my neck, the youngest son of Kim Eung Boo, who used to be Minister of Education and the former prime minister?
So, lower your gaze and lower your knife.
Right at the moment when that soul is separated, if you stab that later soul with the Jade Emperor's knife, that soul can be destroyed.
At the moment when that soul is separated, you must stab that soul with Jade Emperor's knife.
But it's not just anyone who can successfully wield the knife.
What about a knife?
No, not a knife.
Doesn't she remind us of the nun, who walks through the chapel with her knife, forced by the Devil?
I mean it's one thing to buy chocolates out of hours, but it's quite another to stick a knife into a gentleman.
Whatever the provocation, I could never use a knife.
Now, mind you a knife is a difficult thing to handle.
You probably eat with your knife, so you won't have to worry about that.
That knife.
It's Gaby's knife! Yes, from her act.
I can't believe it. -Yes. The knife looks like.
The costume includes a knife attached to your belt in a leather sheath, correct?
Yes, your Honor. -Is it also true that in the pantomime, you use the knife frequently? And at the end of the act, you throw it with such precision that it pierces the chest of a dummy, which is supposed to represent your partner.
Shortly after, Ms. Delys was found dead in her dressing room, stabbed to death with your knife.
Although gravely wounded by the knife that had pierced her, the victim tried to defend herself with a small revolver.
Yvette Delys was fatally stabbed and the killer got away, leaving your knife in the wound.
Why did you arm yourself with a knife before going to the victim's dressing room?
I wasn't armed with a knife, your Honor.
I swear, I never used my knife.
I swear, I never threatened her with my knife.
How can you explain it, then? When she screamed, I realized she was afraid of the knife.
Now, you're going to do me a favor one of these days, and you're going to do it because if you don't, this knife goes in her.
I found my knife!
Drop that knife!
Oh, I admit, with this annoying fellow. but usually I give them hunting clothes. a woodsman's knife and a full day's start.
Give me that knife.
That's some knife! That's no knife.
Morelli, would you mind holding your knife some other way?
If that knife is missing, I'll look for it in your back.
If parties will be in a drawer with a knife stuck in the heart.
The man that stuck a carving knife into that woman last week.
Sheriff Ames, why don't you catch him? You wouldn't like me to be stuck in the back with a carving knife.

News and current affairs

Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
Ask a waiter for a steak knife and you will draw a look that suggests you've asked for a sword.
Now he has wielded the knife a second time by reaching a deal with Iran, supposedly behind Netanyahu's back.
Antonio is stretched out on a rock with arms perpendicular, the Jew Shylock leaning over his breast with his knife drawn.
Here we are, fully a year later, and things are still balanced on the knife's edge.
His portrait and body remain on display in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and his face appears on banknotes in the wallet of every Chinese, many of whom saw parents, children, and other loved ones die under his knife.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
The more proactive Chinese approach is the policy equivalent of attempting to catch a falling knife - arresting a market in free-fall.
Dulling Putin's knife and ending the Ukraine crisis peacefully depends largely on the EU.
So once again, democracy in Nigeria is at a knife's edge.
An old woman bent over her, knife in hand.

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