knife blade
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- noun
- /naɪf bleɪd/
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- He carefully sliced the vegetables with a sharp knife blade.
- a sharp knife blade
- the edge of a knife blade
- wipe the knife blade
Examples
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Picking up the knife, he runs his finger across the razor-sharp knife blade.
Fiction book (1996) -
All right, girls, no finger marks on the knife blades, please.
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Har saw a man cleaning his knife blade.
Fiction book (1992) -
Solomon felt the sharp edge of a knife blade at his ribs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Alex grabs the knife blade and pulls it out.
Fiction book (2000) -
Bernie is getting to his feet, wiping the knife blade on his coat.
Fiction book (1990) -
She's using the tip of the knife blade to unscrew the screws holding the support to the railing.
Fiction book (1998) -
The knife blade was tarnished and needed to be sharpened for effective cutting.
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She replaced the dull knife blade with a new one to make cooking easier.
Synonyms
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The flat sharp part of a knife or sword that cuts
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The sharp side of a blade that slices food or other things
The sharp side of a knife that cuts things
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Morphology
The meaning 'the flat, sharp-edged part of a knife used for cutting' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'knife' (a cutting implement) with 'blade' (the sharpened cutting part). This simple noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows basic referential composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Knife blade is a simple name that joins knife and blade. Long ago people used the word 'blade' for a thin, flat thing like a leaf, so blade came to mean the thin, sharp, cutting part of a knife, which is why knife blade means the flat, sharp edge used 'to cut'.