blade
noun
- 1
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
- 2
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- 3
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
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The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
- 5
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
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A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
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The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
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A sword or knife.
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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.
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(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
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The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
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A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
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A dashing young man.
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A homosexual, usually male.
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Thin plate, foil.
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One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
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(in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
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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.
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Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
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A blade server.
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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.)
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The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
verb
- 1
To skate on rollerblades.
“Want to go blading with me later in the park?”
- 2
To furnish with a blade.
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To put forth or have a blade.
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To stab with a blade
“The gang member got bladed in a fight.”
- 5
To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
noun
- 1
A kind of piton used in thin cracks.
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