blade.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
Meaning & usage
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts. A sword or knife.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts. Ellipsis of razor blade.
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.
A dashing young man.
A homosexual, usually male.
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.
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.
He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der. Proto-Germanic *bladą Proto-West Germanic *blad Old English blæd Middle English bladder. Middle English blade English blade 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”). Cognate with West Frisian bled, German Blatt, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blad, Faroese and Icelandic blað, 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.
To skate on rollerblades.
Want to go blading with me later in the park?
To furnish with a blade.
To put forth or have a blade.
To stab with a blade
The gang member got bladed in a fight.
To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der. Proto-Germanic *bladą Proto-West Germanic *blad Old English blæd Middle English bladder. Middle English blade English blade 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”). Cognate with West Frisian bled, German Blatt, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blad, Faroese and Icelandic blað, 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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