knife

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

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 that of a chipper.

Verb

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

Sinònims

stab

dagger

🗡️

sword

penknife

blade

pierce

machete

dirk

razor

🪒

cutter

pocket knife

tongue

👅

iron

stiletto

thrust

chive

paring knife

poniard

shiv

table knife

pointed carver

small knife

short sword

folding

cut

big knife

scalpel

pin

plate

projection

rabbler

razorblade

razor blade

sawtooth

scimitar

scissors

✂️

scraper

scraping

secant

serve

shaving

shears

short

sickle

slice

slicker

small

Daga

spear

spoon

🥄

spur

sticker

tangency

tool

wound

kitchen knife

scraping tool

stone axe

small sword

utility knife

flick-knife

ceremonial knife

abruptly stab

sharp weapon

handle of a sword

contact blade

doctor knife

spreading knife

erasing knife

razorfish

scraper foundry trowel

scraping cutter

skimmer blade

eating irons

barlow

snicker

arrow

axe

🪓

bayonet

big

bistoury

blunt

carryall

chisel

clasp-knife

cleave

cleaver

cutting tool

drawknife

drawshave

facer

gore

hogback

jab

jut

ledge

ligule

long

meter

palette knife

pearl shell

penetrate

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naɪf/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: knyf

Heretat de anglès antic: cnīf

Cognat amb lituà: gnýbti

In summary

From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti (“to pinch”), gnaibis (“pinching”)). Displaced native Middle English sax (“knife”) from Old English seax; and Middle English coutel, qwetyll (“knife”) from Old French coutel.
The verb knife is attested since the mid 1800s; the variant knive is attested since 1733.

Frases

He took his plate , grabbed a knife and fork and scowled at the savagery on television .