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Blade

//bleɪd// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
"Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch."
2
Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
3
the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge wordnet
4
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.; A sword or knife. metonymically
"Paul: Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth. Shaddam IV: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand."
5
flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water wordnet

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6
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.; Ellipsis of razor blade. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7
the part of the skate that slides on the ice wordnet
8
The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
"Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work."
9
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard wordnet
10
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
11
a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) wordnet
12
The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
13
a cut of beef from the shoulder blade wordnet
14
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
15
something long and thin resembling a blade of grass wordnet
16
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
17
a dashing young man wordnet
18
The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
19
especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole wordnet
20
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.
21
A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
22
The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
23
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
24
A dashing young man. dated
"He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;"
25
A homosexual, usually male. US, slang
26
An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution. US, slang
27
Thin plate, foil.
28
One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
29
The principal rafters of a roof. in-plural
30
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.
31
Ellipsis of blade server. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
32
Synonym of knifeblade.
33
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.)
34
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
35
An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark. informal
36
The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor. uncountable
"He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade."

Verb

1
To skate on rollerblades. informal
"Want to go blading with me later in the park?"
2
To furnish with a blade. transitive
3
To put forth or have a blade. intransitive, poetic
"As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed."
4
To stab with a blade transitive
"The gang member got bladed in a fight."
5
To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding. slang, transitive
"Nowadays, blading happens on occasion in a televised match and more often on pay-per-view but the practice isn't used as much for several reasons, among them an increased awareness of the transmission of AIDS has made blading more dangerous."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”). See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

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