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blade

[bleyd]

–noun

1.	the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc.

2.	a sword, rapier, or the like.

3.	a similar part, as of a mechanism, used for clearing, wiping, scraping, etc.: the blade of a windshield wiper; the blade of a bulldozer.

4.	the arm of a propeller or other similar rotary mechanism, as an electric fan or turbine.

Botany.

a.	the leaf of a plant, esp. of a grass or cereal.

b.	the broad part of a leaf, as distinguished from the stalk or petiole.

6.	the metal part of an ice skate that comes into contact with the ice.

7.	a thin, flat part of something, as of an oar or a bone: shoulder blade.

8.	a dashing, swaggering, or jaunty young man: a gay blade from the nearby city.

9.	a swordsman.

10.

Phonetics.

a.	the foremost and most readily flexible portion of the tongue, including the tip and implying the upper and lower surfaces and edges.

b.	the upper surface of the tongue directly behind the tip, lying beneath the alveolar ridge when the tongue is in a resting position.

11.	the elongated hind part of a fowl's single comb.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE blæd blade of grass; c. D blad, ON blath, G Blatt; akin to blow ³

Related forms:

bladeless, adjective

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blade (blād)

The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.
1. A sword.
2. A swordsman.
3. A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action: the blade of an oar; the blade of a hockey stick.
4. An arm of a rotating mechanism: the blade of a propeller; the blade of food processor.
5. A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping.
6. The expanded part of a leaf or petal.
7. The leaf of grasses or similar plants.
Archaeology A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide.
A dashing youth.
1. A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action: the blade of an oar; the blade of a hockey stick.
2. An arm of a rotating mechanism: the blade of a propeller; the blade of food processor.
3. A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping.
4. The expanded part of a leaf or petal.
5. The leaf of grasses or similar plants.
The metal runner of an ice skate.
A wide flat bone or bony part.
The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip.
Botany
1. The expanded part of a leaf or petal.
2. The leaf of grasses or similar plants.

intr.v. blad·ed, blad·ing, blades
To skate on in-line skates.

[Middle English, from Old English blæd; see bhel-³ in Indo-European roots.]
blad'ed adj.

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Blade

Blade\ (bl[=a]d), n. [OE. blade, blad, AS. bl[ae]d leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla[eth], OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl[=o]wan, 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.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale.

6. pl. (Com.) 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

Blade\ (bl[=a]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade.

Blade

Blade\, v. i. 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.

Blade

Blade\, n. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.

"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet.

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Language Translation for : blade

Spanish: hoja, filo,

German: die Klinge,

Japanese: 刃

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blade

O.E. blæd "a leaf," but also "a leaf-like part" (of spade, oar, etc.), P.Gmc. *bladaz (cf. O.Fris. bled "leaf," Ger. blatt, O.N. blað), from PIE *bhle-to-, suffixed form of *bhel- "to thrive, bloom" (see bole). Extended in M.E. to shoulders (c.1300) and swords (1330). The modern use in reference to grass may be a M.E. revival, by infl. of L. bladum, O.Fr. bled "corn, wheat." The cognate in Ger., blatt, is the general word for "leaf;" laub is used collectively as "foliage." O.N. blað was used in ref. to herbs and plants, lauf in ref. to trees. This may have been the original distinction in O.E., too.

Main Entry: blade
Pronunciation: 'blAd
Function: noun
1 : a broad flat body part (as the shoulder blade)
2 : the flat portion ofthe tongue immediately behind the tip; also : this portion together with the tip
3 : a flat working and especially cutting part of an implement (as a scalpel)

blade (blād) Pronunciation Key

1. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. Also called lamina. See more at leaf.
2. The leaf of grasses and similar plants.
A stone tool consisting of a slender, sharp-edged, unserrated flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade tools were developed late in the stone tool tradition, after core and flake tools, and were probably used especially as knives.

Blade

applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the "shoulder blade" (Job 31:22); the "blade" of cereals (Matt. 13:26).

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