blade

Pronunciation

• enPR: blād, IPA: /bleɪd/

Noun

blade (plural blades)

1. The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
   1. (metonymically) A sword or knife.
   2. Short for razor blade.
2. The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, 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. (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
8. (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.
9. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
10. (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
11. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
12. (dated) A dashing young man.
13. (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
14. Thin plate, foil.
15. (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
16. (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
17. (biology) 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.
18. (computing) A blade server.
19. (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
20. (mathematics) 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.)
    • Holonym: multivector
21. The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
    • Coordinate term: bow
22. (athletics, disability sports, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
    • Coordinate terms: bladerunner, blade jumper, leaf spring

Verb

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

1. (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
   • Want to go blading with me later in the park?
2. (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
3. (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
4. (transitive) To stab with a blade
   • The gang member got bladed in a fight.
5. (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

Anagrams

• Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bleːd/
• Hyphenation: blade

Noun

blade m (plural blades)

1. (sports, chiefly plural) A running blade (prosthetic limb used for running).

Alternative forms

• blad, blaad, bladd, blayde, blayd

Pronunciation

• IPA: /blaːd/, /blad/

Noun

blade (plural blades or bladdys)

1. A leaf or blade; a piece foliage in general.
2. A blade (sharp edge of a weapon).
3. Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.
4. (rare) A wooden tile or chip for roofing.
5. (rare) Anything close in appearance or form to a blade.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbla.dɛ/
• Syllabification: bla‧de

Adjective

blade

1. inflection of blady:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural