(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.
Machete
Definition:
(n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of men with machetes have been roaming the ruins seeking supplies of food or water.
(2) Plainclothes soldiers, one of them with a plastic-handled kitchen knife in the pocket of his shorts and a machete visible under his football shirt stopped and questioned any outsiders.
(3) In response, predominantly Christian forces known as the anti-balaka (balaka means machete in Sango, the local language) launched counterattacks against the Seleka and perceived Muslim collaborators.
(4) Blakelock, while on the ground, suffered eight machete wounds to the scalp, a knife driven into the back of the mouth with only the handle visible, 13 knife wounds to the back of the body, and wounds to his hands and arms.
(5) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .
(6) Eighty-two-year-old Richard “Buddy” Weaver was killed by Oklahoma City police after he allegedly raised a machete at an officer who opened fire; neighbors later described Weaver as having schizophrenia.
(7) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
(8) She had been slashed with a machete, hit on the head, thrown into a hole and raped.
(9) The Haitian in whose house in Port-au-Prince we are staying – a prominent businessman and generally very pro-America – keeps a cherished machete on his wall.
(10) Robert Doggart, 63, and a former candidate for Congress, said he wanted to take his “battle-tested M-4” military-style assault rifle, “with 500 rounds of ammunition, light-armor piercing”, a pistol with three extra magazines and a machete to burn down “the kitchen, the mosque and their school” in the hamlet of Islamberg, according to a criminal complaint against him.
(11) He thwacks his machete into a stump to free his hands and reaches over a stone wall, groping for something in the vegetation beneath.
(12) Chaves is a rough, tough, durable fighter who is very dangerous,” said Brook, who was unable to fight for almost seven months prior to beating Dan in March, having been stabbed in the leg with a machete while on holiday in Tenerife last September.
(13) As interahamwe leader Adalbert Munzigura told Hatzfeld in A Time For Machetes: "They needed intoxication, like someone who calls louder and louder for a bottle.
(14) On 1 March, black-clad assailants killed 29 people with knives and machetes at a train station in the south-western city of Kunming.
(15) Michelle had been walking along the road in the village of Monjas, in Jalapa, about 50 miles from Guatemala City, when a man on a motorcycle pulled up alongside her with a machete tied to his thigh.
(16) Frances Toor, whose work had always been supported or at least tolerated by successive governments, began to fear that the new, highly conservative and anti-left government would close down her Mexican Folkways, as El Machete had been closed down by the government in 1929 (though it continued to be published, illegally, from 1929 to 1934).
(17) "If I'm checking IDs at roadblocks, knowing that person is going to be clubbed to death, I'm as responsible as if I wielded the machete myself," said Capin.
(18) Witnesses claimed that some of the miners were armed with pistols and fired first, while also charging the police with machetes and sticks.
(19) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
(20) Two years later, it was there that he was hacked to death by half a dozen machete-wielding men.