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"Vale" puede tener el sentido de "de acuerdo". ¿Qué otros sentidos tiene?
knife / cuchillo
knife
A. -noun
knives plural
(=table knife) cuchillo (m)
(=pocket knife) navaja (f), cortaplumas masculine invariable
(=dagger) puñal (m)
(=flick knife) navaja (f), chaveta (f) Latin America
(=blade) cuchilla (f)
·does he use a knife and fork yet?
·¿ha aprendido ya a usar los cubiertos?
·I'll get the knives and forks out
·voy a sacar los cubiertos
a. to get one'noun knife into somebody tener inquina a somebody, someone
b. before you could say knife en un decir Jesúnoun
c. to turn the knife in the wound hurgar en la herida
d. to put or stick the knife in ensañarse, tirar con bala
e. like a (hot) knife through butter sin problemas, con la gorra *
B. -transitive verb
(=stab) acuchillar, apuñalar
·to knife somebody to death
·matar a somebody, someone a navajazos or a puñaladas
C. -compound
·knife edge -noun filo (m) (de cuchillo)
a. to be (balanced) on a knife edge
[person] estar con el alma pendiente de un hilo
[result] estar pendiente de un hilo
·knife grinder -noun
(=person) afilador (m) / afiladoa (f)
·knife sharpener -noun
(=tool) afilador (m) de cuchillos
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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