blade

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See also Blade

English

Band saw blades

Etymology

Old English blæd ‘leaf’, from Proto-Germanic *bladan, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlh̥₃oto (compare Irish bláth ‘flower’, Tocharian A/B pält/pilta ‘leaf’), from *bʰleh₃- ‘to thrive, bloom’. More at blow.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bleɪd/, SAMPA: /bleId/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

Wikipedia

Knife blades

blade (plural blades)

1. The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
2. The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, 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. The flat part of the tongue.
8. (poetic) A sword or knife.
9. (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.
10. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
11. (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
12. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
13. (dated) A dashing young man.
14. (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
15. Thin plate, foil.

Derived terms

terms derived from blade (noun)

axeblade bladeless bladelet bladelike blade of grass blade sharpener bladesmith doctor blade gay blade

microblade oar blade razor blade, razor-blade, razorblade rollerblade shoulder blade, shoulderblade, shoulder-blade snowblade switchblade twayblade

Translations

sharp-edged or pointed working end of a tool or utensil

Arabic: شفرة (ar) (šáfra) f. Armenian: սայր (hy) (sayr), բերան (hy) (beran) Breton: lavnenn f., lavnennoù pl. Bulgarian: острие (bg) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 刀片 (zh) (dāopiàn) Czech: čepel (cs) f. Dutch: blad (nl) n. Estonian: tera (et) Finnish: terä (fi) French: lame (fr) f. German: Klinge (de) f. Greek: λεπίδα (el) f. Hebrew: להב (he) (lahav) m. Hungarian: penge (hu) Icelandic: blað (is) n., egg (is) f. Indonesian: bilah (id) Interlingua: lamina

Italian: lama (it) f. Japanese: 刃 (ja) (は, ha) Kurdish: ده‌م Latin: lamina (la) f. Latvian: asmens (lv) m., (knife) ģelzis (lv) m. Lithuanian: ašmenys (lt) m. pl., geležtė (lt) f. Malay: bilah (ms) Norwegian: blad (no) n. Persian: تیغ (fa) (tiğ) Polish: ostrze (pl) n. Portuguese: lâmina (pt) f. Romanian: lamă (ro) f. Russian: лезвие (ru) (lézvije) n. Serbian: rezalo n., sečivo n., oštrica f. Slovene: rezilo (sl) n. Spanish: cuchilla (es) f., hoja (es) f. Swedish: blad (sv) n. Tagalog: (literally) talim (tl)

thin plate, foil

Dutch: folie (nl) m., plaat (nl) f. German: Blatt (de) n. Icelandic: egg (is) f. Interlingua: lamina

Italian: lamina (it) f. Norwegian: blad (no) n. Portuguese: lâmina (pt) f. Spanish: lámina (es) f.

The flat part of a leaf or petal

Chinese: Mandarin: 葉片 (zh), 叶片 (zh) (yèpiàn) Dutch: blad (nl) n. German: Klinge (de) f. Greek: φύλλο (el) n. Icelandic: blað (is) n. Italian: filo (it) m.

Norwegian: blad (no) n. Persian: تیغ (fa) (tiğ) Polish: źdźbło (pl) n. Russian: лист (ru) (list) m. Spanish: hoja (es) f., lámina (es) f., limbo (es) m. Swedish: blad (sv) n.

slang term for a weapon such as a dagger

French: lame (fr) f. Icelandic: blað (is) n., egg (is) f., sverð (is) n. Mandarin: 刀,刀 (dāo) Norwegian: blad (no) n.

Polish: ostrze (pl) n. Spanish: cuchillo (es) m. (said of a dagger), espada (es) f. Swedish: blad (sv) n.

flat outer part of an oar

Bulgarian: перо (bg) n. Finnish: lapa (fi) Greek: παλάμη f. (palámi)

Mandarin: 槳葉, 桨叶 (jiǎng yè) Spanish: pala (es) f.

part of a propeller

Bulgarian: лопатка (bg) f. Dutch: blad (nl) n. Finnish: lapa (fi) Greek: πτερύγιο (el) n. Italian: pala (it) f.

Latvian: lāpstiņa f. Norwegian: blad (no) n. Russian: лопасть (ru) (lópast’) f. Spanish: aleta (es) f.

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Breton: lavn m., lavnioù pl. Korean: 잎 (ip)

References

(archaeology) Creswell Crags

Verb

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

1. (informal) To skate on rollerblades.

Derived terms

• hydroblade

Anagrams

• abled
• baled