Knife

Definition

knife /naÇf/ n ( pl knives /naÇvz/) ၁။ ဓား။ put the knives and forks on the table ❍ He had been stabbed repeatedly with a kitchen knife. See also CARVING KNIFE, PAPER-KNIFE, PENKNIFE ၂။ ဓားစက္တြင္ ဓားသြား။ v ဓားျဖင့္ထိုး၊ ခုတ္သည္။ be knifed to death ❍ The victim had been knifed (in the chest). ❏ at knife-point [ IDM ] ဓားေထာက္၍။ rob/rape sb at knife-point. ❏ get one's knife into sb/have one's knife in sb [ IDM ] [ ဥ ] ေနာက္ေက်ာကို ဓားျဖင့္ ထိုးသည္။ She's really got her knife into me — everything I do, she criticizes. ❏ knife-edge n (usu sing ) ဓားသြား။ ( fig )have knife-edge creases in one's trousers. [ ဥ ] ေဘာင္းဘီေခါက္႐ိုး ေတာင့္ေနသည္။ ❏ the knives are out (for sb) [ IDM ] မရမက ျဖဳတ္ခ်ရန္၊ နာမည္ဖ်က္ရန္ တကဲကဲ လုပ္ေနသည္။ The knives were out for the chancellor. ❏ like a knife through butter [ IDM ] ေလွ်ာခနဲ။ The power saw sliced the logs like a knife through butter. ❏ on a knife-edge [ IDM ] ၁။ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားေနျခင္း၊ ဂနာမၿငိမ္ျခင္း။ He's on a knife-edge about his exam results. ၂။ မေရရာေသာ အေျခအေန။ အတိမ္းအေစာင္းမခံျခင္း။ ခ်ိန္ခြင္လွ်ာ ကစားေနျခင္း။ My future was poised on a knife-edge. ❍ a knife-edge budget/victory. ❏ turn/twist the knife (in the wound) [ IDM ] အနာကို ဆားပက္။

Examples

1. You need a sharp knife for the steak.
2. Knives and forks
3. A kitchen/bread/carving knife