blade (bl d)n. 1. The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool. 2. a. A sword. b. A swordsman. 3. Archaeology A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. 4. A dashing youth. 5. a. A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action: the blade of an oar; the blade of a hockey stick. b. An arm of a rotating mechanism: the blade of a propeller; the blade of food processor. c. A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping. 6. The metal runner of an ice skate. 7. A wide flat bone or bony part. 8. The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip. 9. Botany a. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. b. The leaf of grasses or similar plants. intr.v. blad·ed, blad·ing, blades To skate on in-line skates. [Middle English, from Old English blæd; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.] blad  ed adj. |
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| Adj. | 1. | bladed - bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination; "he fought on, broken-bladed but unbowed" |
| 2. | bladed - having a blade or blades; often used in combination; "a single-bladed leaf"; "narrow-bladed grass" | |
| 3. | bladed - composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite" crystallography - the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" |
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