English-French translations for knife

• couteau
  Un couteau pour peler les fruits est un couteau et pas un fruit ; il en va de même ici. A federal state is a state and not a federation, in the same way as a fruit knife is a knife and not a fruit.
  Aucun des réfugiés n'avait une arme quelconque, pas même un couteau. None of the refugees had a weapon of any kind, not even a knife.
  L'homme attend à l'extérieur du bâtiment et la poignarde avec un couteau - elle meurt. The man is waiting outside and stabs the woman with a knife - she dies.
• poignarder
• frapper d'un coup de couteau

Definition of knife

• A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal , usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing
• A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger
• To cut with a knife
• To cut through as if with a knife
• To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate. compare cut

Related words

• jackknife
• pocketknife
• penknife
• Yellowknife
• jack-knife
• fish-knife
• clasp-knife
• paperknife
• paper-knife