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Blade

noun
/bleɪd/
Word Frequency: 9.0

Definitions

1.nounThe sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
2.nounThe flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
3.nounThe narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
4.nounThe thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
5.nounA flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
6.nounA cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
7.nounThe part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
8.nounA sword or knife.
9.nounA 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.
10.noun(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
11.nounThe rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
12.nounA bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
13.nounA dashing young man.
14.nounA homosexual, usually male.
15.nounThin plate, foil.
16.nounOne of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
17.noun(in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
18.nounThe 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.
19.nounAirfoil in windmills and windturbines.
20.nounA blade server.
21.nounAn 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.)
22.nounThe part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
23.verbTo skate on rollerblades.
"Want to go blading with me later in the park?"
24.verbTo furnish with a blade.
25.verbTo put forth or have a blade.
26.verbTo stab with a blade
"The gang member got bladed in a fight."
27.verbTo cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
28.nounA kind of piton used in thin cracks.

Synonyms

swordvanebrandsteelleaf bladeknifeshivbladedrazoraxedaggersabre

Rhymes With

dismayedaccoladerenegadecascadestaidcharadejadeescapade
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