cutter vs knife

cutter

noun
  • A knife. 

  • A light sleigh drawn by one horse. 

  • A flag or similar instrument for blocking light. 

  • A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore. 

  • A foretooth; an incisor. 

  • A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut. 

  • A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh. 

  • An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling. 

  • A person or device that cuts (in various senses). 

  • A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon. 

  • A heavy-duty motor boat for official use. 

  • A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop. 

  • A surgeon. 

  • A cut fastball. 

knife

noun
  • A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger. 

  • A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing. 

  • Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper. 

verb
  • To betray, especially in the context of a political slate. 

  • To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut. 

  • To cut with a knife. 

  • To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. 

  • To cut through as if with a knife. 

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