knife

knife — noun

1. a household tool made of a metal strip that is ground thin along one side and jo

1.名詞A2
釋義

a household tool made of a metal strip that is ground thin along one side and joined to a handle; you hold the handle and push the blade through food or other materials to divide them, and someone can also use the same object to hurt another person in an attack.

例句

Diya picked up the kitchen knife and carefully sliced the carrots for the soup.

collocation: kitchen knife

The campers used a small knife to cut thin branches for their cooking fire.

knife + to cut [material] for [purpose]

同義詞
  • blade

    refers to the sharp metal part specifically, not the whole tool with a handle

  • cutter

    informal term for a tool designed to cut, often in compounds like 'wire cutter' or 'cutter knife'

用法筆記

Countable noun; always needs a determiner (a knife, the knife, my knife). The plural form is irregular: knives. Often appears in compound nouns naming specific types (kitchen knife, butter knife, pocket knife).

常見錯誤

❌I cut the bread with knife.
✅I cut the bread with a knife.
💡'knife' is a countable noun and needs a determiner like 'a' or 'the'.
❌He sharpened the knifes.
✅He sharpened the knives.
💡the plural is 'knives', not 'knifes'.

knife — verb