Gore vs Knife - What's the difference?
gore | knife |
Dirt, filth.
(senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Murder, bloodshed, violence.
(of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
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An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
A projecting point.
(heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.
To cut in a triangular form.
To provide with a gore.
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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A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as the knives for a chipper.
To cut with a knife .
To use a knife' to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the ' knife as a weapon.
To cut through as if with a knife .
To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut
As a proper noun gore
is .As a noun knife is
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.As a verb knife is
to cut with a knife .gore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)- (Bishop Fisher)
Derived terms
*Etymology 2
Probably from .Verb
(gor)- The bull gored the matador.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Cowell)
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores : not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Verb
(gor)- to gore an apron
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Noun
(knives)- Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife , a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.