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Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.
Gever Tulley

Meaning of "pocketknives" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POCKETKNIVES

pocketknives  [ˈpɒkɪtˌnaɪvz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POCKETKNIVES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pocketknives is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POCKETKNIVES


archives
ˈɑːkaɪvz
chives
ˈtʃaɪvz
drawknives
ˈdrɔːˌnaɪvz
fives
faɪvz
hives
haɪvz
housewives
ˈhaʊsˌwaɪvz
Ives
aɪvz
knives
naɪvz
lives
laɪvz
midwives
ˈmɪdˌwaɪvz
oldwives
ˈəʊldˌwaɪvz
paperknives
ˈpeɪpəˌnaɪvz
penknives
ˈpennaɪvz
spaewives
ˈspeɪˌwaɪvz
wives
waɪvz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POCKETKNIVES

pocket borough
pocket calculator
pocket dictionary
pocket drive
pocket gopher
pocket money
pocket mouse
pocket veto
pocket-handkerchief
pocket-size
pocket-sized
pocketable
pocketbike
pocketbook
pocketer
pocketful
pocketknife
pocketless
pocketphone
pocketsful

WORDS THAT END LIKE POCKETKNIVES

breadknives
butter knives
case knives
chopping knives
clasp knives
combat knives
dinner knives
fish knives
fruit knives
House of Representatives
jackknives
Maldives
Member of the House of Representatives
palette knives
pruning knives
putty knives
saw-edged knives
steak knives
trench knives
vegetable knives

Synonyms and antonyms of pocketknives in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pocketknives» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POCKETKNIVES

Find out the translation of pocketknives to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pocketknives from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pocketknives» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小刀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

navajas
570 millions of speakers

English

pocketknives
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pocketknives
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pocketknives
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карманные ножи
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

canivetes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pocketknives
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

couteaux de poche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pocketknives
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taschenmesser
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pocketknives
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pocketknives
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sakepel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pocketknives
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pocketknives
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॉकेटकिनेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çakılar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coltelli
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

scyzoryki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кишенькові ножі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bricege
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σουγιάδων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pocketknives
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fick
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pocketknives
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pocketknives

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POCKETKNIVES»

The term «pocketknives» is normally little used and occupies the 120.712 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POCKETKNIVES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pocketknives» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pocketknives» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pocketknives

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QUOTES WITH «POCKETKNIVES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pocketknives.
1
Gever Tulley
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POCKETKNIVES»

Discover the use of pocketknives in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pocketknives and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values
A great many pocketknives circulating today are only good for their intended purpose as a cutting tool. Thousands of low-cost pocketknives were imported from Europe, primarily Germany. There were also many inexpensive English- made ...
Steve Shackleford, 2010
2
Pocketknives: Switchblade, Swiss Army Knife, Cqc-6, Pocket ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
3
Pocketknives: Switchblade, Swiss Army Knife, Pocket Knife, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, 2011
4
Walden and Maybrook
The company made pocketknives and penknives (shown, c. the 1880s to the 1930s) similar in design to those of the New York Knife Company. The original building of the knife company was four stories and was approximately 128 feet long ...
Marc Newman, 2001
5
Standards and Specifications for Metals and Metal Products: ...
The industry has since adopted, and approved for promulgation by the Department of Commerce, this recommendation which limits the varieties of pocketknives to those described herein. The basis of this simplification is the shape and size of ...
George Addison Wardlaw, 1933
6
Scouting
BEFORE THE Have egg carton and bottle caps for Cap Toss (page CUB 1 JAN 85); pinewood derby kit for each boy, if they have not already been distributed; pocketknives, sharpening stones, scrap softwood; clothespins for Handful of ...
7
The Vice-President Presented the Following Letter of Anson ...
___- _ - dozen pocketknives, at 610.80 ______ .dozen pocketknives, at $14.25- .. ....... -_ dozen pocketknives, at $12.15 ______ _dozen pocketknives, at $9 20_ __ ' ______ -. dozen pocketknives, at $17.75 ___--- _ - -- . dozen pocketknives, ...
‎1893
8
United States Congressional serial set
62 6-ineh scissors, at $8.68 per dozen 2 dozen No. 62 7-inch scissors, at $10.62 per dozen. Aug. 3. H dozen No. 227-W pocketknives, at $11.56 per dozen Yi dozen No. 773 pocketknives, at $13.34 per dozen Yi dozen No. 781H pocketknives ...
‎1924
9
The Big Book of Boy Stuff
Pocketknives. What is it about a pocketknife that we like? They have a sharp blade and they fold up and fit into our pocket. They're fun to hold and to goof around with. (Of course, pocket tools like the Leatherman Pocket Survival Tool are also ...
Bart King, 2004
10
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Senate Showing the ...
-_ dozen pocketknives, at $10 ............. -_ dozen pocketknives, at $20 ............. . dozen pocketknives, at $11.50 ______ -_ dozen pocketknives. at $12. _- ---- ___- ___dozen pocketknives, at 321.25 ______ -_ 0 dozen pocketknives, at $6 ...
‎1892

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POCKETKNIVES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pocketknives is used in the context of the following news items.
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A collector of experiences
There are the fishing lures, pocketknives and tin boxes he collected while growing up in Arkansas City, Kan., which he calls “Ark City.”. «Muskogee Daily Phoenix, Jul 15»
2
Rhodes remains the keeper of Catawba Island history
“When I was a kid, everybody traded pocketknives and arrowheads.” The upstairs museum portion of the Ottawa City General Store is filled with ... «Port Clinton News Herald, Jul 15»
3
From cane swords to corkscrews: The bizarre things that turn up at …
Police working the security detail also find everything from pocketknives to razor blades and fire extinguisher pins as visitors empty their ... «Brampton Guardian, Jul 15»
4
The Pros and (Considerable) Cons of Budget Bus Travel
A few minutes later, after admiring the CB radios and pocketknives and an impressive jerky selection, I went back and grabbed the plastic tongs ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
5
Police reports
An unspecified sum of money and two Milwaukee pocketknives valued at $20 were stolen Wednesday from an unsecured 1996 Ford Windstar ... «Mount Airy News, Jul 15»
6
Ode to an ole rooster
We peeled the knotty peaches with our pocketknives, laid them on the roof and covered them with a flour sack. A few days later, we went back ... «Troy Messenger, Jul 15»
7
In the 1800s, a freed slave built bridges across the South. In Georgia …
... blasts and pocketknives and carpenter bees and heat and cold and rain and snow and that August humidity that makes the air a stale bath. «Atlanta Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Rash of thefts from motor vehicles occurring in Grayling
Items stolen from vehicles included pocketknives, GPS devices, cameras, headphones, money, an iPod and other miscellaneous items. «Crawford county avalanche, Jul 15»
9
Go Fever: The Interstellar Odyssey of Elon Musk
They pulled out their pocketknives and cut away the shrink wrap that covered the rocket. They found a maintenance kit on the plane and used ... «Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East - Business news and analysis, Jul 15»
10
Cousins Convicted of Redwood City Church Burglary
Some church members chased them but two of the cousins turned and pointed pocketknives at the parishioners, prosecutors said. They ran ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»

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