knife
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Danh từ
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.
He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.
- 2.
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but 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.
Động từ
verb- 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.
She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
- 3.
(intransitive)To cut through as if with a knife.
The boat knifed through the water.
- 4.
(transitive)To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
Đồng nghĩa: burn, quisle, stab in the back, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, double-cross, do someone dirty, do the dirty on, false, go back on, knife, let down, play someone false, quisle, renegade, sell, sell the pass, sell down the river, sell down, sell out, stab in the back, swike, traitorize, turncoat
- 5.
(transitive)To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
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From Middle English knyf, knif, from late Old English cnīf, from Old Norse knífr or *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz, from *knīpaną (to pinch), Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (compare gnýbti, žnýbti (to pinch), gnaibis (pinching)). Displaced native sax, from seax; and coutel, qwetyll (knife) from coutel.