knife

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a few kitchen knives: chef's knife, bread knife, steak knife, and paring knife

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• IPA: /naɪf/
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  Rhymes: -aɪf

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English knif, from Old English cnīf ^[1]

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knife (plural knives)

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 and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
3. Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a chipper.

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• athame
• bayonet
• bistoury
• cake slice, cake-slice
• dagger
• poniard
• scalpel
• stiletto
• Knife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

[edit] Verb

to knife (third-person singular simple present knifes, present participle knifing, simple past and past participle knifed)

1. (transitive) To cut with a knife.
2. (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
3. (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
4. (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
5. (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. cf cut

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• Notes:

1. ^ From Merriam-Webster's Dictionary's entry on "knife": http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knife