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See definition of knife-edge on Dictionary.com
  • as infold
  • as inplica
  • as inplication
  • as inrimple
  • as inruck

synonyms for knife-edge

  • pleat
  • bend
  • circumvolution
  • cockle
  • convolution
  • corrugation
  • crease
  • crimp
  • crinkle
  • flection
  • flexure
  • furrow
  • gather
  • gathering
  • groove
  • lap
  • lapel
  • layer
  • loop
  • overlap
  • plait
  • plica
  • plication
  • ply
  • pucker
  • ridge
  • ruck
  • ruffle
  • rumple
  • shirring
  • smocking
  • tuck
  • turn
  • wrinkle
  • dog's ear
  • plicature
  • rimple
  • rivel
  • ruche
On this page you'll find 208 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knife-edge, such as: pleat, bend, circumvolution, cockle, convolution, and corrugation.

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    How to use knife-edge in a sentence

    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.
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    Sukowa, perhaps best known for the films she made with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, walks this knife edge deftly.
    IN FRANCE'S OFFICIAL OSCAR ENTRY TWO OF US, TWO WOMEN’S LOVE STORY PLAYS LIKE A THRILLERSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKFEBRUARY 5, 2021TIME
    Use a light touch, slope the knifeblade and slice with knife edge away from you (Figure 1).
    ELECTRICITY FOR THE 4-H SCIENTISTERIC B. WILSON
    He had hunted mountain sheep and imagined sun and frost had worn the rocks to something like a knife-edge.
    NORTHWEST!HAROLD BINDLOSS
    In the heights are numerous ledges and knife-edge ridges on which but little snow can lodge.
    WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALSENOS A. MILLS
    This ruby pin acts on a knife edge, but for all that the engaging friction during the unlocking action is considerable.
    AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEVER ESCAPEMENTH. R. PLAYTNER
    The knife-edge is then turned forward and made to cut its way out.
    A SYSTEM OF OPERATIVE SURGERY, VOLUME IV (OF 4)VARIOUS
    For a moment it hung on the knife-edge of the world, and then dipped down and was gone.
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    And gripped it the harder when Carette skipped past them and disappeared along that knife-edge of a dancing path.
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    Nance had crouched all the morning, in the bracken above Brenière, on the knife-edge of expectancy.
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