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Wiktionary

  1. knivesnoun

    Plural form of knife.

Wikipedia

  1. knives

    A knife (PL: knives; from Old Norse knifr 'knife, dirk') is a tool or weapon with a cutting edge or blade, usually 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. Originally made of wood, bone, and stone (such as flint and obsidian), over the centuries, in step with improvements in both metallurgy and manufacturing, knife blades have been made from copper, bronze, iron, steel, ceramic, and titanium. Most modern knives have either fixed or folding blades; blade patterns and styles vary by maker and country of origin. Knives can serve various purposes. Hunters use a hunting knife, soldiers use the combat knife, scouts, campers, and hikers carry a pocket knife; there are kitchen knives for preparing foods (the chef's knife, the paring knife, bread knife, cleaver), table knives (butter knives and steak knives), weapons (daggers or switchblades), knives for throwing or juggling, and knives for religious ceremony or display (the kirpan).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Knives

    of Knife

  2. Knives

    of Knife. See Knife

Freebase

  1. Knives

    "Knives" is an episode from the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Knives

    pl. of knife.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of knives in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of knives in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of knives in a Sentence

  1. Francis Ratnieks:

    The first queen to become an adult, she may try to kill the other queens before they've reached adulthood. It's like the knives are out, and in some cases the workers try to stop the fighting.

  2. Bob Baffert:

    I know everybody right now is sharpening their knives, getting ready.

  3. Donald Trump:

    They don't have guns. They have knives and instead there's blood all over the floors of this hospital, they say it's as bad as a military war zone hospital... knives, knives, knives. London hasn't been used to that. They're getting used to that. It's pretty tough.

  4. Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked:

    If people with knives were roaming the streets of New York and started stabbing people, they would not be asked to present their ID's, and the NYPD would draw their weapons, the U.S. administration can say whatever it wants - and we will do what is needed.

  5. John Frullo:

    We got rid of illegal knives and made them location-restricted knives.

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