Usually means: Tool for cutting, slicing, preparing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. knife: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knife: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knife: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knife: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knife: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knife, knife: Wordnik
  7. knife: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knife: Wiktionary
  9. knife: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knife: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knife: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knife, knife: Dictionary.com
  13. knife: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. knife: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Knife (Grizzly Bear song), Knife (album), Knife (disambiguation), Knife, The Knife (Goldfinger album), The Knife (The Knife album), The Knife (song), The Knife, The knife: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Knife: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. knife: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. knife: Rhymezone
  19. knife: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. knife: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. knife: Free Dictionary
  22. knife: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. knife: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. knife: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Knife: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. knife: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knife: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Knife: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. knife: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. KNIFE: Acronym Finder
  3. knife: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Knife: Easton Bible
  2. Knife: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Knife: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knife, knife: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See knifed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
noun:  A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
noun:  Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
verb:  (transitive) To cut with a knife.
verb:  (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
verb:  (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
verb:  (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
verb:  (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.

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