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blade
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What does blade mean?
noun
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- A sword or knife.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
More meanings (31)
noun
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- 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.
- A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- 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.
- (slang) A homosexual, usually male.
- (slang) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- Thin plate, foil.
- One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- 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.
- Ellipsis of blade server.
- Synonym of knifeblade.
- 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.)
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A cleat on a shoe, particularly one that is longer and thinner than a stud.
- A football boot equipped with blade-type cleats.
- The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- (dated) A dashing young man.
verb
- (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
- To furnish with a blade.
- To put forth or have a blade.
- To stab with a blade
- (slang) To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.
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IPA pronunciation
/bleɪd/
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Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger.
Indeed the blade was huge and brown and ancient, and sword and man had looked a very terror save to one great-hearted.
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Thurston has landed Two strokes, well directed and hard, On the standard pole, wielding, two-handed, A blade crimson'd up to the guard.
These curves showed that the tips of long-bladed propellers were inefficient, as was also the portion of the blade near the root.
Mastin has given an instance in which the blade of a pen-knife remained in the brain six months, recovery following its removal.