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knife-edge

刀锋,刀刃,刀口,刀锋式

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the cutting edge of a knife.
    • : anything very sharp.
    • : a wedge on the fine edge of which a scale beam, pendulum, or the like, balances or oscillates.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inplica
as inplication
as infold

Examples

  • It’ll keep your knife in exactly the right position, so you don’t have to worry about creating a weird angle on the knife edge.

  • Sukowa, perhaps best known for the films she made with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, walks this knife edge deftly.

  • Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

  • French officials were already on edge after a series of apparently unconnected attacks, including the stabbing of police officers.

  • I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.

  • The rage that Marvin has embodied, a man on the edge of eruption, is always a badly wounded man.

  • Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.

  • After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.

  • He was hurrying towards the corner of the palace grounds when a shriek from Winifred set his teeth on edge.

  • The first man my eyes lighted upon as I stepped inside was MacRae, humped disconsolately on the edge of a bunk.

  • Pearson flung his knife and fork at it, having forgotten to drop those light weapons when he leaped up.

  • Squinty turned around, standing on the edge of the little brook, and waited, his heart beating faster and faster.