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|passage=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.}}
|passage=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 [[family]] [[relationship]] due to [[birth]], such as that between [[sibling]]s; contrasted with relationships due to [[marriage]] or [[adoption]] (''see'' [[blood relative]], [[blood relation]], [[by blood]]).
# A [[family]] [[relationship]] due to [[birth]], such as that between [[sibling]]s; contrasted with relationships due to [[marriage]] or [[adoption]] (''see'' [[blood relative]], [[blood relation]], [[by blood]]).
#: ''{{w|Australoid}} blood in South Asian population''
#* {{rfdate|and other bibliographic particulars}} {{w|Edmund Waller}}
#* {{rfdate|and other bibliographic particulars}} {{w|Edmund Waller}}
#*: a [[friend]] of our own '''blood'''
#*: a [[friend]] of our own '''blood'''

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See also: Blood and Blööd

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bloud, West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian blod.

Pronunciation

Noun

blood (countable and uncountable, plural bloods)

  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.
    The blood flows into the menstrual cup.
  2. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
    Australoid blood in South Asian population
    • (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "and other bibliographic particulars" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Edmund Waller
      a friend of our own blood
    • (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "and other bibliographic particulars" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Sir Walter Scott
      to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  3. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
  4. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
    • 2016, Steve Jamieson, Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog
      When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.
  5. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
    • 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
      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."
    • 1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57:
      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, [...]
    • 1916, John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest, page 44:
      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; [...]
  6. (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.
    • Bible, Genesis xiix. 11
      He washed […] his clothes in the blood of grapes.
  7. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
    • (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "and other bibliographic particulars" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. William Shakespeare
      when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
      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 […]
  8. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
    • (Can we date this quote?)Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "and other bibliographic particulars" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. William Shakespeare
      Seest thou not […] how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 3:
      ... it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days ....
  9. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).

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See also

References

Verb

blood (third-person singular simple present bloods, present participle blooding, simple past and past participle blooded)

  1. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
      The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]
  2. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 121:
      Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.
  3. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Adjective

blood (comparative bloder, superlative bloodst)

  1. (archaic) not courageous
  2. (archaic) timid

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References

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.

Noun

blood n

  1. blood

See also

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

blood (plural bloods)

  1. blood

Descendants

  • English: blood
  • Scots: bluid
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