Knife

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 the knives for a chipper.

Derived terms

 * bowie knife
 * bring a knife to a gunfight
 * butterknife
 * butcher knife
 * carving knife


 * flick knife
 * hunting knife
 * jack-knife
 * knife fight
 * not the sharpest knife in the drawer


 * penknife
 * pocketknife
 * steak knife
 * Swiss Army Knife

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

Adjectives for Knife
ill-directed; harmful; murderous; crooked; keen; burning; long; two-edged; broad; sharp-pointed;  naked;   big;   tempered; curved; brass-handled; blunt; hatchetlike; pointless; whetted; blood-stained.

Verbs for Knife
brandish—; carve with—; clasp with— fling—; flourish—; hack with—; heave— hone—; hurl—; pare with—; pocket— sheathe—; slash with—; slay with—; stab with—; thrust—; whirl—about.

Thesaurus
ax, barong, bayonet, blade, bolo, bowie, bowie knife, cold steel, cut, cutlery, cutter, dagger, dining utensils, dirk, edge tool, edge tools, flat silver, flatware, forks, gravity knife, hollow ware, impale, knives, lance, machete, naked steel, parang, pierce, pigsticker, play dirty pool, play one false, plunge in, point, poniard, prove false, puncturer, run through, saber, sharpener, silver, silver plate, silverware, slash, spear, spike, spit, spoons, stab, stainless-steel ware, steel, stick, stiletto, switchblade, switchblade knife, sword, tablespoon, tableware, teaspoon, toad sticker, transfix, transpierce, whittle, wound

Etymology
Middle English knif, from late cnif:, from, cognate with Low German Kniw (knife) (compare obsolete Dutch knijf, German dialect Kneif: 'shoemaker's knife', Swedish kniv:), from *knīpanan 'to pinch' (compare Dutch knijpen:, German kneifen:, Norwegian dialect knīpa:), from  (compare Lithuanian gnýbti, žnýbti 'to pinch').

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: talkoosa
 * Arabic: سكين, مدية
 * Moroccan: (muus)
 * Aragonese: cuitiello
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: labana, aizto
 * Belarusian: нож
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 刀, 刀子
 * Cree: ᒨᐦᑯᒫᓐ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian: დანაკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: छुरी, चाक़ू
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: пышақ
 * Khakas:
 * Korean:
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: бычак


 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: peilis
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: pisau
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: cotèl
 * Ojibwe: mookomaan
 * Persian:, چاقو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: нож
 * Roman: nož
 * Shor:
 * Slovak: nôž
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: thipa
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kampit, kutsilyo
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: pıçaq
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: ніж
 * Urdu: چھری, چاقو
 * Uyghur: پىچاق
 * Uzbek: pichoq
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (khinjar)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: coltell,, ganivet, punyal
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (naifu),  (たんけん),  (しょうとう)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurdish:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: peilis
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: mookomaan
 * Persian: خنجر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: нож
 * Roman: nož
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: thipa
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (nasl),  (shafra)
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
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 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: peilis
 * Norwegian: knivblad
 * Ojibwe: mookomaan
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romani:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * West Frisian:


 * : aizto, haiztoa
 * : нож (nož)
 * : пеель (pejel)
 * : kyse
 * : סַכִּין (sakin)
 * : cultello
 * : 칼 (kal)
 * : peilis
 * : കത്തി (kathi)
 * : 刀 (dāo), 刀子 (dāozi)
 * : kniv


 * : súri
 * : shuri
 * : nôž
 * : kisu
 * : kniv
 * : kutsilyo
 * : (mītă)
 * : చాకు (čāku)
 * : bıçak
 * : ніж (niž)
 * : dao

Verb

 * Azeri: kəsmək
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian:, реже


 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: acoltellar, apunyalar
 * Danish: stikke med kniv
 * Finnish:
 * French: frapper d'un coup de couteau
 * Galician: acoitelar
 * Greek: (machairóno)
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: a da o lovitură de cuţit
 * Romansch: cuntellar
 * Russian: прирезать (prirézat’), зарезать (zarézat’) , заколоть (zakolót’) to stab
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: hugga (med kniv)


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * : knivhugga