knife
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knife is part of the Basic English 850.
This word was selected as the Word of the Day for 06-04-2006.
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- IPA: /naɪf/
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Singular |
- (countable) A knife is a tool that cuts.
- He ate with his knife and fork.
- (countable) A knife is a tool with a thin edge.
- He worked with a putty knife.
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- If you knife someone, you stab someone with a knife; you make a hole in them.
- The gang knifed him sixteen times.