KNIFE

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knife, plural knives I. substantiv

1. cuţit;

kitchen knife, cuţit de bucătărie;

table knife cuţit de masă;

dessert knife cuţit de desert;

fish knife cuţit de peşte;

to lay a knife and fork for smb. a pune un tacâm pentru cineva;

(fam.) he plays a good knife and fork e un mare mâncăcios / un gurmand;

pocket knife cuţit de buzunar;

pen knife briceag.

2. pumnal, stilet;

war to the knife război pe viaţă şi pe moarte;

(fam.) to have one's knife in smb. a urî pe cineva, a avea ceva împotriva cuiva, a fi înverşunăt / îndârjit împotriva cuiva.

3. tăiş, lamă (la o tocătoare de paie etc.); cuţitul ghilotinei.

4. (cu art. hot.) bisturiul, scalpelul;

to use the knife, to resort to the knife a tăia în carne vie;

to have the horror of the knife a tremura la gândul unei operaţii, a-i fi teamă de bisturiu.

5. (tehn.) cuţit; racletă.

6. (tehn.) dinte de freză.

7. (electr.) lamă de contact.

◊ before you could say knife cât a-i zice peşte, într-o clipită.

knife II. verb tranzitiv

1. a înfige cuţitul în, a înjunghia, a ucide.

2. (amer.) a provoca căderea (unui om politic, prin mijloace necinstite).

3. (amer.) a trânti la (un) examen.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

But we found the knife some feet away from the body, so that seems impossible.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was, as Dr. Watson told us, a form of knife which is used for the most delicate operations known in surgery.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was only one galley knife that, as a knife, amounted to anything.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He ran his thumb along the edge of his knife.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

At last I got my knife and cut the halyards.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Cold knife conization may also be used to treat certain cervical conditions.

(Cold knife conization, NCI Dictionary)

That’s ill done, Hans, you should have put the knife in your pocket.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He had a dinner-knife in his hand, and, as I saw he was dangerous, I tried to keep the table between us.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“There never was a happier one!” I exclaimed, laying down the carving-knife and fork.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And now I was left with a difficult point to settle, for it was hard for me to say whether it was better that I should do that which I had come for, or whether, by holding this man’s guilty secret, I might not have in my hand a keener and more deadly weapon than my master’s hunting-knife.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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