knife

couteau

Outil muni d’un manche et d’un bord tranchant, utilisé pour couper.

En anglais simple : A tool with a handle and a sharp edge, used for cutting things.

• Use a knife to cut the bread.
• These knives need sharpening.
• She put down her knife and fork.

Expressions courantes : sharp knife, kitchen knife, knife and fork, putty knife

lame

Pièce tranchante d’une machine servant à découper des matériaux.

En anglais simple : A sharp part of a machine that cuts material.

• The machine needs a new knife.
• These knives cut the wood into small pieces.
• Switch off the chipper before replacing its knife.

Synonymes : blade, cutter

Expressions courantes : chipper knife, rotating knife, knife blade

poignarder

Attaquer quelqu’un en lui enfonçant une lame tranchante dans le corps.

En anglais simple : To attack someone by pushing a sharp blade into their body.

• Someone knifed him outside the club.
• The victim was knifed in the back.
• Police arrested the man who had knifed two people.

Synonymes : stab

Expressions courantes : knife someone, knife someone repeatedly, knife someone fatally

fendre

Traverser quelque chose rapidement et sans difficulté, comme une lame tranchante.

En anglais simple : To move quickly and smoothly through something, as a sharp blade would.

• The boat knifed through the water.
• Cold wind knifed through his thin coat.
• Her sharp voice knifed through the silence.

Comment l'utiliser : knife through something (The boat knifed through the waves.)

Synonymes : slice, cut

Expressions courantes : knife through something, knife through water