Butter Knife

  

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Butter Knife

Definition: Butter Knife

Butter Knife

Noun

1. A small knife with a dull blade; for cutting or spreading butter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Butter Knife

Specialty definitions using "butter knife": SANDWICH MAKER, sandwich-counter attendant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Butter Knife

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If I see you with that guy, I'll kill him, and or separate him from his most precious organ with a dull butter knife. (Ed's Next Move; writing credit: John Walsh)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Butter Knife

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Photo Album: Butter Knife

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(6) color slides show sticks of butter. (2) single sticks of butter unwrapped, (2) unwrapped stick of butter next to a butter knife, (2) a single pat of butter on a butter knife. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Butter Knife

Language Translations for "butter knife"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

couteau à beurre. (various references)

   

German

  

buttermesser. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utterbay ifeknay

   

Spanish

  

cuchillo para la mantequilla. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Butter Knife

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-i-k-n-r-t-t-u"

-3 letters: brunette, unbitter, unfetter.

-4 letters: benefit, bittern, burette, burkite, funkier, kernite, knitter, nettier, nuttier, retinue, reunite, tentier, tribune, tribute, trinket, tuftier, turbine, uterine.

-5 letters: befret, bereft, better, bitten, bitter, brunet, bunker, bunter, burnet, burnie, butene, butter, entire, ferine, fetter, fitter, funker, kitten, knifer, netter, neuter, nutter, rebuke, refine, refute, reknit, retine, retint, retune, tenter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Butter Knife


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 74 74 65 72      4B 6E 69 66 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01001011 01101110 01101001 01100110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#75 &#110 &#105 &#102 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0074 0074 0065 0072      004B 006E 0069 0066 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36878686718424580757271

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Butter Knife"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionallemand, alemán

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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