(n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
(n.) A sword or dagger.
(v. t.) To prune with the knife.
(v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(3) Frontal afferents to the medial basal hypothalamus of the rat were interrupted by a Halász knife, and 4 weeks later the brains were processed for immunostaining of CRF-fibers.
(4) Earlier this year the Guardian launched Beyond the Blade , a long-term project looking at young people who are victims of knife crime.
(5) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(6) More conservative approaches have been used in young women requesting preservation of their childbearing ability, including CO2 laser excision, knife excision, cryotherapy, and electrocauterization.
(7) One day, a man she had interviewed held a knife to her throat, holding her captive for 10 days and only releasing her when the French embassy came looking for her.
(8) In the wake of a second fatal police shooting in the St Louis area after the death of Michael Brown , concerned citizens are asking why officers had to kill Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old man who was holding a knife and “behaving erratically.” They want to know why officers don’t shoot someone like Powell in the leg or the arm, rather than aiming for vital organs, or why they don’t just use a less lethal weapon, like a Taser.
(9) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
(10) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
(11) I don’t remember what happened afterward.” By morning, Israeli newspapers had published the official version of Anas al-Atrash’s death: A 23-year-old Palestinian had run from his car and rushed at a checkpoint soldier with a knife.
(12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
(13) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(14) Hogan-Howe waded into the row, saying gang members heard simple messages such as that there was a minimum five-year jail sentence for possession of a gun, but had no idea about the equivalent sentence for carrying a knife.
(15) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(16) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(17) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(18) Lysine vasopressin and a long-acting analogue N alpha-triglycyl-lysine vasopressin were compared in a prospective randomized double-blind study including 71 women undergoing cold knife conization of the uterine cervix.
(19) There was a 24% rise in knife crime in London in the 12 months ending in March.
(20) Once, the inquest heard, he threatened Luke’s football coach, telling him: “I have a knife with your name on it.” When Anderson killed Luke there were four warrants out for his arrest including one related to his possession of child sex abuse images.
Lanyard
Definition:
(n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
(n.) A strong cord, about twelve feet long, with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In that process I didn't see many blue lanyards, I didn't see many Gatwick people.
(2) The high-pitched squeal of F1 engines and lanyard-wearing, flag-waving fans have melted away in Melbourne to be replaced by what is becoming an annual debate in the Victorian capital – do we really want or need the Australian Grand Prix?
(3) Careful measurements and overlay construction of the wounds relative to the magazine catch, lanyard ring, magazine chamber, and butt of a 32-caliber Eistegui Hermanos fibar (España) automatic pistol led to the conclusion that either the alleged weapon or one identical to it caused the fatal injuries.
(4) Inside are three booths, in each one a lanyarded-up, clipboard-wielding Kiss employee on a stool.
(5) The idea became the focus of many trust board meetings; lanyards and badges with the logo were produced; reminders popped up in clinics, on computer screensavers and trust intranets; chief executives began to blog about the campaign, and it was a frequent topic of conversation at many healthcare conferences.
(6) As I walk in to conference, blue “Conservative Friends of India” lanyard around my neck, I endure the rather novel experience of being called “Fucking Tory scumbag!” As I turn to confront my detractors, one man continues to angrily jab the air, yelling, until he realises he’s only causing collateral damage.
(7) The former chief secretary to the treasury and shadow everything produces her lanyard with dazzling insouciance and continues to fish-dance her way in.
(8) Twitter was briefly awash with speculation that some athletes hid their security pass lanyards bearing the Atos logo as they entered the stadium.
(9) That’s $700 just to walk around conference rooms with a lanyard, pressed khakis and a titanic sense of entitlement to American hegemony.
(10) And who can forget Ed Balls, locked outside Bilderberg, fumbling through an entire suitcase full of papers looking for his lanyard .
(11) The IPC president also defended the involvement of Atos, the IT giant whose name adorns the lanyards of all accredited Games athletes and staff but has been criticised by disability rights campaigners for its involvement in assessing whether benefit claimants are "fit for work".
(12) Ed wasn’t comfortable in his own skin.” On the beach, close to the Metropole, three young women are relaxing in their Girlguiding uniforms and Labour conference lanyards.
(13) At the gates of St George’s hospital in Tooting in south-west London, doctors handed out leaflets, turquoise stickers and lanyards with the caption “one profession”, while some passing motorists beeped in support.
(14) They’ve either got a table reservation or they’re wearing a lanyard.
(15) Keogh was, he pointed out, born at the hospital that was later replaced with the Armadale health campus, where he addressed the media on Tuesday with Plibersek, the WA senator Sue Lines, an assorted crew of lanyard-wearing hospital workers and, briefly, a bus – happily marrying his two of his three campaign platforms of health cuts and public transport investment.
(16) This week we found that even the lanyard set are impressed by the fact that protests and direct action are constraining Donald Trump’s capacity to act.
(17) West’s record label has since pulled the audio, so that particular video now features middle-managers swinging their lanyards to deathly silence.
(18) Thus, for example, the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust's concern about infections on its wards was unanimously deemed by the judges to qualify its duty to respect nurse Shirley Chaplin's wish to wear religious jewellery, and management's rejected suggestion that she could tie her cross to her staff ID lanyard was an adequate workaround.
(19) ParalympicsGB, was adamant there was no protest: it was windy, and the lanyards had been tucked away to stop them rattling.
(20) Workers will wear lanyards around their necks, fitted with miniature cameras.