Knife vs Nife - What's the difference?
knife | nife |
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.
* 2007 , Scott Smith, The Ruins , page 273
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
(geology) nickel–iron, especially the material that makes up the core of the Earth
As nouns the difference between knife and nife
is that 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 while nife is nickel–iron, especially the material that makes up the core of the Earth.As a verb knife
is to cut with a knife.knife
English
Noun
(knives)- Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife , a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.