Meaning of blade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
2. Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
3. leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants)
4. A sword or knife.
   metonymically
5. To skate on in-line skates.
6. petal (an often brightly coloured component of the corolla of a flower)
7. Ellipsis of razor blade.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. The cutting part of a sharp instrument:edge.
9. blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
10. The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.
11. The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
12. pad (floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant)
13. A sword.
14. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
15. sheet, leaf (piece of paper, usually rectangular)
16. Archaeology A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide.
    Archaeology
17. The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
18. A dashing youth.
19. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
20. 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.
21. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
22. The metal runner of an ice skate.
23. The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
24. A wide flat bone or bony part.
25. 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.
26. The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip.
27. A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
28. The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
29. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
30. A dashing young man.
    dated
31. A homosexual, usually male.
    US, slang
32. An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
    US, slang
33. Thin plate, foil.
34. One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
35. The principal rafters of a roof.
    in-plural
36. 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.
37. Ellipsis of blade server.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
38. Synonym of knifeblade.
39. 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.)
40. The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
41. An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
    informal
42. The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
    uncountable

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Examples

“Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch.”

“Paul: Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth. Shaddam IV: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand.”

“Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.”

“He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;”

“But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.”

“Vice does not thrive here, because the young blades seek it elsewhere.”

“Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.”

“He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.”

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