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A utility knife is a knife used for general or utility purposes.

Finnish outdoor utility knife

Retractable blade knife with replaceable utility blade

Today, the term " utility knife " also includes small folding or retractable-blade knives suited for use in the modern workplace or in the construction industry.

The fixed-blade utility knife was developed some 500, 000 years ago, when humans began to make knives made of stone.

By the 19th century the fixed-blade utility knife had evolved into a steel-bladed outdoors field knife capable of butchering game, cutting wood, and preparing campfires and meals.

The folding pocketknife and utility tool is typified by the Camper or Boy Scout pocketknife, the U. S. folding utility knife, the Swiss Army Knife, and by multi-tools fitted with knife blades.

The fixed or folding blade utility knife is popular for both indoor and outdoor use.

One of the most popular types of workplace utility knife is the retractable or folding utility knife ( also known as a Stanley knife, boxcutter, X-Acto knife, or by various other names ).

A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue near Waddell Street, NE, police said.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

After acquiring an initial fleet of utility and transport aircraft, the squadron was attached to an interarmy support regiment.

In June 2004, a Japanese student was slashed to death with a segmented-type utility knife.

* Model 50 Twin Bonanza Two-engine utility aircraft ; despite its name was not a development of the Bonanza

The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

Pfanzagl's axiomatization was endorsed by Oskar Morgenstern: " Von Neumann and I have anticipated " the question whether probabilities " might, perhaps more typically, be subjective and have stated specifically that in the latter case axioms could be found from which could derive the desired numerical utility together with a number for the probabilities ( cf.

This does not mean that its utility could be underestimated, though, as its strategic role in scouting, skirmishing, and outpost duties was crucial to the Romans ' capability to conduct operations over long distances in hostile or unfamiliar territory.

In 1905, he was appointed as counsel to the New York state legislative " Stevens Gas Commission ", a committee investigating utility rates.

* The Unix utility can display some information about ELF files, including the instruction set architecture for which the code in a relocatable, executable, or shared object file is intended, or on which an ELF core dump was produced.

48-215 sedans were produced in parallel with the 50-2106 coupé utility from 1951 ; the latter was known colloquially as the " ute " and became ubiquitous in Australian rural areas as the workhorse of choice.

Another returning variant was the full-size utility, this time based on the Commodore.

Lee May was traded to Baltimore for much talked about rookie second baseman Rob Andrews and utility player Enos Cabell.

The utility of operational definitions was carried much further in the special theory of relativity.

Godwin was a utilitarian who believed that all individuals are not of equal value, with some of us " of more worth and importance ' than others depending on our utility in bringing about social good.

The Smith theory of value was very similar to the later utility theories in that Smith proclaimed that a commodity was worth whatever labor it would command in others ( value in trade ) or whatever labor it would " save " the self ( value in use ), or both.

In some countries an early solution to this perceived problem was government provision of, for example, a utility service.

They proposed a theory that the value of a product was to be explained with differences in utility ( usefulness ) to the consumer.

* Whether utility or marginalism was more essential to this revolution ( whether the noun or the adjective in the phrase " marginal utility " is more important )

Walras ' conception of utility, like that of Menger, was that of usefulness in general, rather than the hedonic conception of Bentham or of Mill ; and Walras was more interested in the interaction of markets than in explaining the individual psyche.

* Model 400 Beechjet Two-turbofan-engine utility aircraft, originally designed and manufactured by Mitsubishi

Pratt & Whitney Canada ( PWC ), originally Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, and later United Aircraft of Canada, provides a large range of products, including turbofan, turboprop and turboshaft engines targeted for the regional, business, utility and military aircraft and helicopter markets.

As a result the operational utility of the system has been enhanced over what was originally envisioned by the early developers.

These ships were originally very powerful, but their utility has decreased somewhat over time.

While it was originally established as an electric utility holding company, under the control of politically connected Paul Desmarais, Sr., the company became a conglomerate with major interests in publishing and the finance industry.

CICS was originally developed to address requirements from the public utility industry, but it became clear immediately that it had applicability to many other industries, so the Public Utility prefix was dropped with the introduction of the first release of the CICS Program Product.

Lemon originally joined the major league Indians in 1941 as a utility player.

Galarraga originally started as a utility player, but three seasons later he became the regular first baseman of the team.

The utility bike's combination of parts, design, and features provide functionality and comfort at the expense of weight, an adequate compromise when used as originally intended ( local commuting and short rides ).

EIT was originally allocated only about 1 kbit / s of data -- about the same speed as a 110 baud teletype -- but after its utility became clear much more telemetry bandwidth was allocated to it.

Public Service Enterprise Group Fortune 500 company (), commonly known as PSEG, and originally known as the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey and then as the Public Service Electric and Gas Company, is a regulated, publicly owned gas and electric utility company in the state of New Jersey, United States.

The utility ( ute ) version was originally marketed in both Belmont and Kingswood configurations.

The penny knife dates from the 18th century and was an extremely basic utility knife, originally with a fixed blade.

The network, as originally envisioned, would have been composed of a network of supercorridors up to wide to carry parallel links of tollways, rails, and utility lines.

Today, utility poles may hold much more than the uninsulated copper wire that they originally supported.

It was originally called the Consumers Power Company — one of several divisions within H. M. Byllesby's vast public utility empire — but changed its name to NSP in 1916 ( possibly to avoid confusion with an identically named company in Michigan ).

MailMerge was originally the name of a utility supplied with MultiMate an early word processing product for the IBM PC, patterned after Wang word processors.

DSM is originally adopted in energy, today DSM is applied widely to utility including water and gas as well.

The plant was originally owned by more than 10 separate utility companies serving five New England states.

Allume Systems originally developed exclusively for Macintosh, focusing on data compression and management utilities, such as the StuffIt family of compression utilities and the StuffIt InstallerMaker delivery suite, the ShrinkWrap disk image utility, and its Spring Cleaning system optimization utility.

The WindowShade control panel itself stems from a third-party utility originally written for System 6. 0. 7 by Rob Johnston.

His designs are now the industry standard for all modern messenger bags The bags originally allowed lineman to carry necessary tools within easy reach while climbing utility poles.

This process was made more convenient when Apple implemented the Extensions Manager, itself a Control Panel that was originally a shareware utility by Ricardo Batista.