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blade

  [bleyd]
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–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.
5. 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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Slang Dictionary
blade

  1. n.
    a knife. : Bring your blade over here and cut this loose.
  2. n.
    a young man, witty and worldly. : A couple of blades from the international jet set ordered vintage wine for everyone.
  3. n.
    a homosexual man. (From gay blade.) : Some blade came over and offered to buy me a drink.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Science Dictionary
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.

  2. 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.


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