knives
/naɪvz/
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Australia/nɑɪvz/
knives is the plural of knife.
knives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of knive.
Meaning of knife
Noun
knife (plural knives)
- 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.
- He was looking for a knife to chop some steak.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
Phrases with knives
- knives up
- 007 knives
- air knives
- hay knives
- Bolo knives
- boot knives
- bush knives
- cane knives
- case knives
- dirk knives
- dive knives
- fish knives
97 more phrasesFewer phrases
- herb knives
- mora knives
- neck knives
- race knives
- reed knives
- snow knives
- bowie knives
- bread knives
- clasp knives
- craft knives
- flick knives
- gamma knives
- hobby knives
- paper knives
- petty knives
- putty knives
- radio knives
- Rambo knives
- spoon knives
- steak knives
- sushi knives
- table knives
- tanto knives
- Yakut knives
- banana knives
- Barlow knives
- boning knives
- butter knives
- carpet knives
- cheese knives
- chef's knives
- chefs' knives
- dinner knives
- diving knives
- eating knives
- Exacto knives
- fillet knives
- Gurkha knives
- Khyber knives
- oyster knives
- paring knives
- pocket knives
- riving knives
- sheath knives
- squash knives
- tomato knives
- trench knives
- zombie knives
- butcher knives
- carving knives
- drawing knives
- falling knives
- fascine knives
- folding knives
- gravity knives
- hunting knives
- keen as knives
- kitchen knives
- leather knives
- Lebsche knives
- marking knives
- palette knives
- shaving knives
- Stanley knives
- utility knives
- voiding knives
- Batangas knives
- clicking knives
- electric knives
- linoleum knives
- painting knives
- scalping knives
- shucking knives
- survival knives
- throwing knives
- waiter's knives
- waiters' knives
- Yakutian knives
- ballistic knives
- butcher's knives
- butchers' knives
- butterfly knives
- deer horn knives
- filleting knives
- molecular knives
- grapefruit knives
- Swiss Army knives
- deer antler knives
- the knives are out
- night of long knives
- white handled knives
- nights of long knives
- oyster-shucking knives
- electric carving knives
- night of the long knives
- nights of the long knives
- not the sharpest knives in the drawer
Words that rhyme with knives
Questions about knives
- What is knives the plural of?
- Knives is the plural of knife.
- How do you pronounce knives?
- Knives is pronounced /naɪvz/.
Words near knives in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: knives (page history and authors); knife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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