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BLADE
blade
(noun) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
blade, vane
(noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
blade
(noun) the part of the skate that slides on the ice
sword, blade, brand, steel
(noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
blade
(noun) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
blade
(noun) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
blade
(noun) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; “a blade of lint on his suit”
blade
(noun) a dashing young man; “gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures”
blade, leaf blade
(noun) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
Blade (plural Blades)
(soccer) someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Anagrams
• Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead
Etymology
Noun
blade (plural blades)
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
(chiefly, phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
(poetic) A sword or knife.
(archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
(dated) A dashing young man.
(slang, chiefly, US) A homosexual, usually male.
Thin plate, foil.
(photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
(computing) A blade server.
(climbing) synonym of knifeblade
(mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
Holonym: multivector
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
Coordinate term: bow
Verb
blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
(transitive) To furnish with a blade.
(intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
(transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
Anagrams
• Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead
Source: Wiktionary
Blade, n. Etym: [OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Foil leaf of metal.]
1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.
2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
4. The scapula or shoulder blade.
5. pl. (Arch.)
Definition: The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.
6. pl. (Com.)
Definition: The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell. De Colange.
7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.
Blade, v. t.
Definition: To furnish with a blade.
Blade, v. i.
Definition: To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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