utility knife

English

Stanley brand utility knife

Another typical form of utility knife

A folding type, shown open.

A folding type, shown closed.

Noun

utility knife (plural utility knives)

1. A cutting tool that has a thin interchangeable blade that (often) retracts or folds into the handle.

   Hyponyms: boxcutter (broadly synonymous); Stanley knife (a retracting type); Exacto knife

   Coordinate terms: pocketknife; penknife

Related terms

• clasp-knife
• folding knife

Translations

cutting tool

• Arabic: مِشْرَط m (mišraṭ)
• Catalan: cúter (ca) m, tallant (ca) m, tallador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鎅刀 / 𰾛刀 (gaai³ dou¹)

  Mandarin: 美工刀 (zh) (měigōngdāo)

• Danish: hobbykniv c
• Dutch: stanleymes (nl) n, hobbymes (nl) n
• Finnish: mattoveitsi (fi), mattopuukko
• French: couteau à lame rétractable (fr) m, cutter (fr), (Canada) exacto (fr) m
• Galician: cúter m
• German: Teppichmesser (de) n, Cutter (de) m, Cuttermesser n
• Hebrew: סכין יפני m
• Hungarian: sniccer, pengekés, barkácskés
• Icelandic: dúkahnífur m
• Italian: taglierino (it) m, trincetto (it) m, cutter (it) m
• Japanese: カッターナイフ (ja) (kattā naifu), カッター (ja) (kattā)
• Korean: 커터 칼 (keoteo kal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pappkniv m, teppekniv m

• Polish: nóż introligatorski m
• Portuguese: estilete (pt) m, x-ato m
• Romanian: cutter n
• Russian: канцеля́рский нож m (kanceljárskij nož), нож Стэ́нли m (nož Stɛ́nli)
• Spanish: cúter (es) m, trincheta (es) f, bisturí plástico m, cuchillo cartonero m, cortacajas m
• Swedish: mattkniv c
• Turkish: falçata (tr)
• Vietnamese: dao rọc giấy

See also

• razor
• razor blade