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. |
blade [bleɪd]
n
1. the part of a sharp weapon, tool, etc., that forms the cutting edge
2. (Engineering / Tools) (plural) Austral and NZ hand shears used for shearing sheep
3. the thin flattish part of various tools, implements, etc., as of a propeller, turbine, etc
4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the flattened expanded part of a leaf, sepal, or petal
5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the long narrow leaf of a grass or related plant
6. (Individual Sports, other than specified) the striking surface of a bat, club, stick, or oar
7. the metal runner on an ice skate
8. (Social Science / Archaeology) Archaeol a long thin flake of flint, possibly used as a tool
9. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) the upper part of the tongue lying directly behind the tip
10. Archaic a dashing or swaggering young man
11. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) short for shoulder blade
12. a poetic word for a sword, swordsman
[Old English blæd; related to Old Norse blath leaf, Old High German blat, Latin folium leaf]
bladed adj
| blade (bld) 1. a. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. Also called lamina. See more at leaf. b. The leaf of grasses and similar plants. 2. A stone tool consisting of a slender, sharp-edged, unserrated flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade tools were developed late in the stone tool tradition, after core and flake tools, and were probably used especially as knives. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  blade - especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole |
| 2. | blade - a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures" | |
| 3. | blade - something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit" | |
| 4. |  blade - a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guardbacksword - a sword with only one cutting edge blade - the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge broadsword - a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab falchion - a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point fencing sword - a sword used in the sport of fencing foible - the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip forte - the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible hilt - the handle of a sword or dagger weapon, weapon system, arm - any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" | |
| 5. | blade - a cut of beef from the shoulder blade cut of beef - cut of meat from beef cattle chuck - the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade | |
| 6. | blade - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) web, vane - the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" | |
| 7. | blade - the part of the skate that slides on the ice ice skate - skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole runner - device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along | |
| 8. |  blade - flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or waterfan blade - blade of a rotating fan eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird, chopper - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades impeller - the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat paddle - a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel rotating mechanism - a mechanism that rotates rudder blade - the vertical blade on a rudder turbine - rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | |
| 9. | blade - the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge cutting implement - a tool used for cutting or slicing knife - edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle knife blade - the blade of a knife knife edge, cutting edge - the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife lawn mower, mower - garden tool for mowing grass on lawns razorblade - a blade that has very sharp edge pair of scissors, scissors - an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades spatula - a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances spatula - a turner with a narrow flexible blade |
Translations
blade [bleɪd] N
1. (= cutting edge) [of knife, tool] → filo m; (= flat part) [of weapon, razor etc] → hoja f; [of skate] → cuchilla f
3. [of grass etc] → brizna f
blade
n
(of knife, tool, weapon, razor) → Klinge f; (of pencil sharpener) → Messerchen nt; (of guillotine) → Beil nt
(of tongue) → vorderer Zungenrücken; (of oar, spade, saw, windscreen wiper) → Blatt nt; (of plough) → Schar f; (of turbine, paddle wheel) → Schaufel f; (of propeller) → Blatt nt, → Flügel m
(liter, = sword) → Klinge f (liter)
(old, = dashing fellow) → schmucker Bursch (old)
(Anat) = shoulder blade
blade [bleɪd] n (cutting edge) → lama; (of safety razor) → lametta; (of propeller) → pala
blade of grass → filo d'erba
blade [bleɪd] n (cutting edge) → lama; (of safety razor) → lametta; (of propeller) → pala
blade of grass → filo d'erba
blade of grass → filo d'erba
blade [bleɪd] n (cutting edge) → lama; (of safety razor) → lametta; (of propeller) → pala
blade of grass → filo d'erba
n blade [bleid]
1 the cutting part of a knife etc His penknife has several different blades. lem شَفْرَه острие čepel blad die Klinge λεπίδα hoja, filo tera تیغه terä lame לָהַב पत्ती oštrica penge mata pisau blað lama 刃 칼날 ašmenys (naža) asmens mata pisau lemmet (kniv)blad ostrze lâmina lamă лезвие čepeľ klina sečivo blad ใบมีด ağız 刀刃 лезо چاقو وغیرہ کا پھل ، بلیڈ lưỡi (dao, kiếm) 刀刃
2 the flat part of a leaf etc a blade of grass. blaar, grashalm وَرَقَةُ عُشْب лист, стрък stéblo blad das Blatt, der Halm το επίπεδο τμήμα ενός φύλλου brizna lehelaba پهن برگ ruohonlehti limbe, brin (d'herbe) עָלֶה עֵשֶׂב फलक vlat szál sehelai grasstrá; blaðka filo 葉 잎사귀 laiškas (zāles) stiebrs lai blaadje blad źdźbło fio fir (de iarbă) былинка, лист čepeľ (listu) bilka vlat blad, []strå ส่วนที่บางของใบไม้ aya 葉片 травинка پتے کا چپٹا حاصہ phiến lá 叶片
3 the flat part of an oar. blad طَرَفُ المِجْدافِ العَريض перка за гребло lopatka (vesla) åreblad das Blatt παλάμη κουπιού pala aerulaba قسمت پهن؛ پهنه lapa pale לָהַב הַמָשוֹט धार lopatica vesla lapát ujung dayung blað pala オールの水かき (노의) 물갈퀴 mentė (aira) lāpstiņa daun blad (åre)blad pióro pá paletă лопасть list (vesla) lopatasti del vesla lopata årblad ส่วนที่บางของไม้พาย pala 槳片 лопать چپو کا چپٹا حصہ mái chèo 桨片
blade → نصل ostří klinge Klinge λεπίδα hoja terä lame oštrica lama 刃 날 snijgedeelte blad ostrze lâmina лезвие blad ใบมีด bıçak lưỡi dao 刀刃
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