blade

noun

The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

(metonymic) A sword or knife.

The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).

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.

(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.

(slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.

(slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.

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.

(biology) 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.

(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.)

The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

(athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.

(uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.

(soccer) Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Ellipsis of razor blade. [A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.]

(computing) Ellipsis of blade server. [(computing) A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.]

(dated) A dashing young man.

verb

(informal) To skate on rollerblades.

(transitive) To furnish with a blade.

(transitive) To stab with a blade

(transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.

(intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.

Synonyms for blade

swordn knifen daggern steeln sharpenern penknifen rapiern cuttern spearn cutlassn

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