Blade

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Noun

Blade (plural Blades)
  1. The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
  2. The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  3. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
  4. (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
  5. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
  6. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
  7. The flat part of the tongue.
  8. (poetic) A sword or knife.
  9. (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.
  10. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
  11. (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
  12. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
  13. (dated) A dashing young man.
  14. (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
  15. Thin plate, foil.

Verb

Blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)

  1. (informal) To skate on rollerblades.

Adjectives for Blade

  • (grass) trembling; springing; wind-rippled; dewy.
  • (man) blushing; foppish; gay; desperate; roistering; brilliant; flashy; overdressed; jolly; generous.
  • (sword) flashing; glittering; whirling; bright; heavy; broad; double-edged; sharp; dull; penetrating; rapier; projecting; fiery; lean; delicate; blameful; bloody; dripping; burn¬ished; avenging; dry; scanty; polished; troublesome; flexible; unwithering; tremu¬lous; freshly-springing; fratricidal; bayleaf-shaped; deadly; reddened; shining; scythe-shaped; trenchant; trusty; unsheathed; well-tempered ; worthy.

Verbs for Blade

  • (sword) carve with—; draw—; drive in—; flash—; forge—; grasp—; heave—; lash with—;redden—; send—home; sheathe—; temper—; withdraw—; —glances off; —lacerates; —pricks.

Derived terms

terms derived from blade (noun)

Thesaurus

alveolar ridge, alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, ax, back, battler, bayonet, beau, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blood, boulevardier, bract, bracteole, bractlet, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, clotheshorse, cold steel, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cotyledon, coxcomb, cutlass, cutlery, cutter, cutting edge, dagger, dandy, disputant, dorsum, dude, duelist, edge tools, enforcer, exquisite, fashion plate, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, fine gentleman, flag, floral leaf, foilsman, foliole, fop, fribble, frond, gallant, gamecock, gladiator, glume, goon, gorilla, hard palate, hatchet man, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, involucre, involucrum, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jackknife, jouster, knife, knight, lady-killer, lamina, larynx, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, lips, macaroni, man-about-town, masher, militant, naked steel, nasal cavity, needle, oral cavity, palate, penknife, petal, pharyngeal cavity, pharynx, pigsticker, pile, pine needle, playboy, plug-ugly, point, poniard, puncturer, puppy, quarreler, rapier, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, runner, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, seed leaf, sepal, sharpener, shoot, sled, sleigh, snowmobile, soft palate, spark, spathe, spear, speech organ, spire, sport, squabbler, steel, stiletto, stipula, stipule, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swashbuckler, swell, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, syrinx, teeth, teeth ridge, thug, tilter, tip, toad sticker, tongue, tough, trusty sword, tussler, velum, vocal chink, vocal cords, vocal folds, vocal processes, voice box, weasel, whittle, wrangler

Etymology

Old English blæd ‘leaf’, from Proto-Germanic *bladan (“leaf, blade”) (compare West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt), from Proto-Indo-European *bhlḥₐd- (“leaf”) (compare Tocharian A/B pält/pilta 'leaf'), from *bhel- 'to thrive, bloom'. More at blow.

Pronunciation

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