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How to pronounce “knife”
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Pronunciation guide for knife
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of knife with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Mesa Mexicana
can wipe off the blade of your knife
- Definition summary
- 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.
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How to pronounce knife
Mesa Mexicana
can wipe off the blade of your knife
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “knife”
Meaning
- [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.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- 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.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
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