Wife vs. Knife — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wife and Knife
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Wife
A wife is a woman in a marriage. A woman who has separated from her partner continues to be a wife until the marriage legally dissolves with a divorce judgement.
Knife
A knife (plural knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, often attached to a handle or hilt. One of the earliest tools used by humanity, knives appeared at least 2.5 million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools.
Wife
A woman joined to another person in marriage; a female spouse.
Knife
A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle.
Wife
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
The Fisherman and His Wife
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Knife
A cutting edge; a blade.
Wife
The female of a pair of mated animals.
A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
Knife
To use a knife on, especially to stab; wound with a knife.
Wife
(Scotland) woman.
Knife
(Informal) To betray or attempt to defeat by underhand means.
Wife
To marry (a woman)
Knife
To cut or slash a way through something with or as if with a knife
The boat knifed through the waves.
Wife
A woman; an adult female; - now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
On the green he saw sitting a wife.
Knife
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.
Wife
The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; - correlative of husband.
Let every one you . . . so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Knife
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.
Wife
A married woman; a man's partner in marriage
Knife
Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
Knife
(transitive) To cut with a knife.
Knife
(transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
She was repeatedly knifed in the chest.
Knife
(intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
The boat knifed through the water.
Knife
(transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
Knife
(transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
Knife
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
Knife
A sword or dagger.
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife.
Knife
To prune with the knife.
Knife
To cut or stab with a knife.
Knife
Fig.: To stab in the back; to try to defeat by underhand means, esp. in politics; to vote or work secretly against (a candidate of one's own party).
Knife
Edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
Knife
A weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
Knife
Any long thin projection that is transient;
Tongues of flame licked at the walls
Rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
Knife
Use a knife on;
The victim was knifed to death
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