blade
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”)
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.
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blade (plural blades)
- The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
- The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- (poetic) A sword or knife.
- (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.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- (dated) A dashing young man.
- 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (originally attributed to Richard Porson), The Devil's Thoughts
- He saw a turnkey in a trice / Fetter a troublesome blade.
- 2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, p. 77:
- Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.
- 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (originally attributed to Richard Porson), The Devil's Thoughts
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Weale to this entry?)
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of De Colange to this entry?)
- Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
- (computing) A blade server.
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
- (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
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- Coordinate term: bow
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blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
- (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
- Want to go blading with me later in the park?
- (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
- (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, "Elisa", in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies
- As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, "Elisa", in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies
- (transitive) To stab with a blade
- The gang member got bladed in a fight.
- (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
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Borrowed from English blade, from Middle English blade. Doublet of blad.
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blade m (plural blades)
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English blæd, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃otom.
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blade (plural blades or bladdys)
- A leaf or blade; a piece foliage in general.
- A blade (sharp edge of a weapon).
- Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.
- (rare) A wooden tile or chip for roofing.
- (rare) Anything close in appearance or form to a blade.
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- “blā̆d(e (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-29.
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blade
- inflection of blady:
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