(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.
Tabby
Definition:
(v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
(n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
(n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
(n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
(n.) An old maid or gossip.
(a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
(a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(2) I have suggested that the X-linked gene Tabby (Ta) and its autosomal mimics in the mouse may be homologous with the genes for sex-linked anhidrotic (hypohidrotic) ectodermal dysplasia (Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome, CST) and its apparent autosomal mimics in the human.
(3) Tabby (Ta), a murine X-linked mutant gene, produces a syndrome of ectodermal dysplasia including anhidrosis (absence of sweat glands).
(4) The findings have potential clinical significance; firstly, because the Tabby gene shows genetic homology to the human gene for hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and disturbed eyelid opening is a trait of some forms of human ectodermal dysplasia, and secondly, because the gene for epidermal growth factor receptor is an oncogene.
(5) It is possible that deficiency of epidermal growth factor at the tissue level may be involved in the development of some of the traits seen in Tabby mutants.
(6) In addition to analysing the effects of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor on eyelid opening in the mouse, this study appears to be the first detailed histological description of normal eyelid opening.
(7) These probes have been positioned with respect to existing DNA markers utilizing a new interspecific backcross segregating for the Tabby (Ta) locus.
(8) Because Tabby appears to be genetically homologous to the gene for human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, these results may have potential clinical significance.
(9) We have also demonstrated that tabby has abnormally elevated epidermal sulphydryl (SH): disulphide (SS) ratios, in common with an autosomal form of ectodermal dysplasia.
(10) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(11) Studies from our laboratory have previously shown that the syndrome produced in the mouse by the X-linked gene tabby (Ta) has many features in common with human X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.
(12) The preputial gland can be excluded as the site of pheromone synthesis since males which are hemizygous for the Tabby-J gene and have no preputial glands blocked pregnancies as effectively as their normal littermates.
(13) Both sequences map to the region of 10 centimorgan lying between the Tabby (Ta) and St14-1 (DxPas8) loci, close to the phosphorylase b kinase locus (Phk).
(14) Nor is it easy to determine how much hybridisation has occurred between the Scottish wildcat, a close relative of the European wildcat, and the domestic tabby, a cousin of the near-eastern wildcat, a separate subspecies.
(15) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(16) We tried to measure the distances between arterioles in about 30 postmortem injected hearts using India ink to produce a kind of reflected imitated tabby (tiger) heart pattern.
(17) Thus epidermal growth factor appears to accelerate eyelid opening by stimulating these morphological processes and the Tabby gene appears to delay eyelid opening by impairing them.
(18) We performed histological studies to explore the mechanisms of action of the Tabby gene and of epidermal growth factor in these processes.
(19) Linkage data relative to the markers tabby and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase are presented to locate X-linked cataract (Xcat) in the distal portion of the mouse X-chromosome between jimpy and hypophosphatemia.
(20) Grafts of the combination tabby epidermis-normal dermis and tabby epidermis-tabby dermis produced hairs with a morphology similar to hairs found in tabby mice.