Knife vs Nife - What's the difference?
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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 (geology). As a verb knife is to cut with a knife .
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knife English
Noun
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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
- Jeff was bent low over the backboard, working with the knife , a steady sawing motion, his shirt soaked through with sweat.
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.
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See also
* athame
* bayonet
* bistoury
* cake slice, cake-slice
* dagger
* poniard
* scalpel
* stiletto
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Verb
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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
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nife Alternative forms
* Nife, NiFe
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(geology) nickel–iron, especially the material that makes up the core of the Earth
See also
* KREEP
* sial
* sima
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