blade
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Noun (9)blades
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petioleSynonyms: leaf bladeType of leaf, leafage
- a dashing young man“gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures”Type of young person, youth
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass“a blade of lint on his suit”Type of ribbon, thread
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guardSynonyms: swordbrandsteelType of weapon, armKinds cutlas, fencing sword, rapier, backsword, broadsword, cavalry sword, falchionExamples ExcaliburParts point, hilt, forte, haft, foible
- a cut of beef from the shoulder bladeType of cut of beefPart of chuck
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)Type of structure, anatomical structureKinds vane, web
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or waterSynonyms: vane
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
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Translations
Noun cutting edge of a knife or tool
- Spanish
- hoja
- French
- lame
- German
- Klinge
- Italian
- lama
- Portuguese
- lâmina
- Turkish
- ağız
- Russian
- ле́звие lézvije
- Arabic
- شَفْرَة šafra
- Chinese
- 刀刃 dāorèn
- Japanese
- 刃 ha
26 more languages
- Dutch
- lemmet
- Polish
- ostrze
- Swedish
- blad
- Greek
- λεπίδα lepída
- Korean
- 날 nal
- Indonesian
- bilah
- Vietnamese
- lưỡi
- Hungarian
- penge
- Portuguese (PT)
- lâmina
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 刀片 dāopiàn
- Albanian
- teh
- Catalan
- fulla
- Czech
- čepel
- Danish
- blad
- Esperanto
- klingo
- Estonian
- tera
- Finnish
- terä
- Georgian
- პირი ṗiri
- Hebrew
- לַהַב láhav
- Icelandic
- blað
- Latvian
- asmens
- Lithuanian
- ašmenys
- Norwegian
- blad
- Romanian
- lamă
- Serbo-Croatian
- oštrica
- Slovenian
- rezilo
Noun the flat part of a leaf or petal
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. blað, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. φύλλον. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. blōwan, E. blow, to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Foil leaf of metal.
1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
The crimson dulse... with its waving blade.— James Gates Percival
First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear.— Mark iv. 28.
2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
4. The scapula or shoulder blade.
5. pl. Architecture The principal rafters of a roof. John Weale
6. pl. Commerce 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. Auguste Leo De Colange
7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; — a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade.— Samuel T. Coleridge
8. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
“Lower blade” implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue.— Henry Sweet
To furnish with a blade.
To put forth or have a blade.
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.— Phineas Fletcher
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement