Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - knife
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Knife
knife
~1 n plural knives, 1 a metal blade fixed into a handle, used for cutting or as a weapon (knife and fork | He had been stabbed with a knife. | kitchen/bread/vegetable etc knife (=knife used in the kitchen, for cutting bread etc)) 2 the knives are out informal used to say that people are being extremely unfriendly to each other 3 have/get your knife into someone informal to dislike someone and be very unfriendly towards them 4 twist/turn the knife to say something that makes someone more upset about a subject they are already unhappy about 5 under the knife humorous having a medical operation 6 you could cut the atmosphere/air with a knife used to say that you felt the people in a room were angry with each other (- see also paper knife) ~2 v T + tha to put a knife into someone's body; stab1 (1)
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(knives, knifes, knifing, knifed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Note: 'knives' is the plural form of the noun and 'knifes' is the third person singular of the present tense of the verb. 1. A knife is a tool for cutting or a weapon and consists of a flat piece of metal with a sharp edge on the end of a handle. ...a knife and fork... Two robbers broke into her home, held a knife to her throat and stole her savings. N-COUNT 2. To knife someone means to attack and injure them with a knife. Dawson takes revenge on the man by knifing him to death... VERB: V n prep 3. A surgeon’s knife is a piece of equipment used to cut flesh and organs during operations. It is made of metal and has a very thin sharp edge. = scalpel N-COUNT • If you go under the knife, you have an operation in a hospital. Kelly was about to go under the knife when her surgeon stopped everything. PHRASE: PHR after v 4. see also carving knife, fish knife, flick knife, palette knife, paper knife, pocket knife, Stanley knife 5. If someone does something like a knife through butter or like a hot knife through butter, they do it very easily. Spending by Japanese companies has left them more competitive than companies in other nations. They will be cutting through the competition like a hot knife through butter. PHRASE: knife inflects, PHR after v 6. If you have been in a place where there was a very tense atmosphere, you can say that you could have cut the atmosphere with a knife. (mainly BRIT) PHRASE 7. If a lot of people want something unpleasant to happen to someone, for example if they want them to lose their job, you can say that the knives are out for that person. (mainly BRIT) The Party knives are out for the leader. PHRASE: V inflects, usu PHR for n 8. If you twist the knife or if you turn the knife in someone’s wound, you do or say something to make an unpleasant situation they are in even more unpleasant. Travis twisted the knife by laughing at her... PHRASE: V...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun (plural knives) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English knif, from Old English cnif, perhaps from Old Norse knifr; akin to Middle Low German knif ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. a cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade fastened to a handle b. a weapon resembling a ~ 2. a sharp cutting blade or tool in a machine 3. surgery 4 — usually used in the phrase under the ~ • ~like adjective II. verb (~d; knifing) Date: 1865 transitive verb 1. to use a ~ on; specifically to stab, slash, or wound with a ~ 2. to cut, mark, or spread with a ~ 3. to try to defeat by underhanded means 4. to move like a ~ in birds knifing the autumn sky intransitive verb to cut a way with or as if with a ~ blade the cruiser ~d through the heavy seas ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (pl. knives) 1 a a metal blade used as a cutting tool with usu. one long sharp edge fixed rigidly in a handle or hinged (cf. PENKNIFE). b a similar tool used as a weapon. 2 a cutting-blade forming part of a machine. 3 (as the knife) a surgical operation or operations. --v.tr. 1 cut or stab with a knife. 2 sl. bring about the defeat of (a person) by underhand means. Phrases and idioms at knife-point threatened with a knife or an ultimatum etc. before you can say knife colloq. very quickly or suddenly. get one's knife into treat maliciously or vindictively, persecute. knife-board a board on which knives are cleaned. knife-edge 1 the edge of a knife. 2 a position of extreme danger or uncertainty. 3 a steel wedge on which a pendulum etc. oscillates. 4 = AR Usage TE. knife-grinder 1 a travelling sharpener of knives etc. 2 a person who grinds knives etc. during their manufacture. knife-machine a machine for cleaning knives. knife-pleat a narrow flat pleat on a skirt etc., usu. overlapping another. knife-rest a metal or glass support for a carving-knife or -fork at table. knife-throwing a circus etc. act in which knives are thrown at targets. that one could cut with a knife colloq. (of an accent, atmosphere, etc.) very obvious, oppressive, etc. Derivatives knifelike adj. knifer n. Etymology: OE cnif f. ON kn{iacute}fr f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) нож резать ножом 2) струг; резец; скребок 3) опорная призма (коромысла весов) 4) ракель - air knife - air-operated knife - air-operated reciprocating boning knife - anvil-type knife - band knife - blunt knife - boning knife - breaking knife - bush knife - butcher knife - cable knife - calender knife - card feed knife - carvers knife - chest knife - chipper knife - chopping knife - circular knife - covering knife - cutoff knife - cutter knife - cutter head knife - cutting knife - debeading knife - doctor knife - draw knife - drum knife - electric knife - end knife - filling knife - flensing knife - flying knife - folding knife - fulcrum knife - guillotine-type knife - hacking knife - hog knife - lifting knife - load knife - machine knife - mill knife - notched rotary knife - paper knife - paring knife - putty knife - revolving knife - rigid knife - rocker knife - roll knife - rotary knife - rotating knife - spreading knife - squaring shears knife - swinging knife - tab knife - trimming knife - tubular knife ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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нож; лезвие; струг; скребок bench knife board knife cable knife chisel knife filling knife glazing knife hacking knife linoleum knife palette knife plane knife putty knife scraper knife Stanley knife stopping knife stripper knife stripping knife wood filling knife ...Англо-русский строительный словарь
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1) лезвие 2) нож 3) ножевой 4) ножик 5) струговый knife head ball — шаровая головка ножа - garden knife - hanging knife - joint-forming knife - knife cut - knife divider - knife file - knife folder - knife grinder - knife harrow - knife roller - knife switch - mold knife - mote knife - plane knife - riving knife - scuffle knife - shearing knife - veneer knife ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. нож; ножик the assassin's knife —- нож (наемного) убийцы; покушение the surgeon's knife —- нож хирурга; хирургическое вмешательство it cuts like a knife —- как ножом режет (о ветре) 2. мед. скальпель 3. хирургическая операция to have a horror of the knife —- панически бояться операции to go under the knife —- лечь на операцию, подвергнуться операции, лечь под нож he was under the knife for two hours —- его оперировали два часа to die under the knife —- умереть во время операции 4. кинжал, нож; кортик to get a knife into smb. —- заколоть кого-л. кинжалом, зарезать кого-л. ножом 5. тех. струг, скребок 6. тех. нож, резец 7. полигр. ракель Id: before one could say knife —- немедленно, тотчас же, моментально; и ахнуть не успел Id: to make war to the knife —- вести беспощадную войну; драться не на живот, а на смерть Id: to have one's knife into smb. —- нападать на кого-л., разносить кого-л. Id: to play a good knife and fork —- есть с аппетитом; уплетать за обе щеки Id: to look carving knives at smb. —- бросать злобные взгляды на кого-л. 8. резать ножом 9. нанести удар ножом; заколоть ножом he was knifed in the street —- его зарезали на улице 10. резать (волосы) boats knifing the water —- лодки, разрезающие воду 11. идти наперерез волнам the cruiser knifed through the heavy sea —- крейсер шел наперерез высоким волнам 12. ам. разг. нанести предательский...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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and fork еда KNIFE 1. noun; pl. knives 1) нож to put a knife into smb. - зарезать кого-л. 2) surg. скальпель - the knife - go under the knife 3) tech. струг, скребок, резец 4) attr. ножевой before you can say knife - немедленно, моментально; и ахнуть не успел to get ones knife into smb. - нанести удар кому-л., злобно напасть на кого-л.; беспощадно критиковать кого-л. a good (poor) knife and fork - хороший (плохой) едок; to play a good knife and fork = уписывать за обе щеки, есть с аппетитом you could cut it with a knife - это нечто реальное; это вполне ощутимо - knife and fork Syn: dagger, dirk, flick-knife, misericord, poniard, stiletto 2. v. 1) резать ножом 2) ударить, заколоть ножом 3) amer.; coll. нанести предательский удар кандидату своей партии (голосуя на выборах за его противника) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- O.E. cnif, from O.N. knifr, from P.Gmc. *knibaz. The verb is first attested 1865, from the noun. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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