Meaning of blood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
   countable, uncountable
2. A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
3. A surname.
4. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
   countable, uncountable
5. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
6. One of the four humours in the human body.
   countable, historical, uncountable
7. third-person singular imperative
8. The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid.
   countable, uncountable
9. A blood test or blood sample.
   countable, informal
10. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
    countable, uncountable
11. The juice of anything, especially if red.
    countable, poetic, uncountable
12. A temper of mind; a disposition; a mood.
    countable, uncountable
13. A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
14. A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
    countable, uncountable
15. Bloodshed.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
16. A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
    countable, uncountable
17. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“a member of a certain gang”).
    alt-of, countable, uncountable
18. Lean, especially that is red.
    US, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Some insects are known for consuming blood.”

“Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.”

“It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.”

“The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.”

“An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”

“a friend of our own blood”

“to share the blood of Saxon royalty”

“TASHA: The captain wants those two taken into custody. // KORRIS: Do not let them take us, Worf. Help us. // KONMEL: Listen to the voice of your blood. You are not "of" these people.”

“When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.”

“It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."”

“Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]”

“Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like water; [...]”

“He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.”

“When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth”

“Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?”

“There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he was likely to go. When old Bligh, of the Magazine, commended the handsome young dog's good looks, the general would grow grave all at once […]”

“Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?”

“[…] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]”

“They came looking for blood.”

“Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.”

“Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assisting once at a series of executions out of the windows of the castle with Catherine de Medicis, suddenly overcome by the horror of the spectacle, turned away, exclaiming passionately, "Ah Madame! how all this blood calls out for blood! what vengeance is being prepared! May God have pity on your sons and on mine!"”

“He watched out for the men in his unit, for the one woman who had saved them so many years ago when they were still raw teens out for blood and revenge on the world, and he watched out for anyone else they stumbled across in their lives that needed protection.”

“The standard assessment suggests that as the munera became purely a spectacle, they became more murderous because the public wanted to see blood. That the people of Rome were able to indulge this degenerate desire was merely due to the degraded status of the professional gladiator.”

“Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.”

“My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.”

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