English Online Dictionary. What means blade? What does blade mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.
Pronunciation
- enPR: blād, IPA(key): /bleɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
blade (plural blades)
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- (metonymically) A sword or knife.
- Short for razor blade.
- (metonymically) 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).
- Synonym: lamina
- 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.
- (dated) A dashing young man.
- (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.
- (computing) Short for blade server.
- (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.)
- Holonym: multivector
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- Coordinate term: bow
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- Coordinate terms: bladerunner, blade jumper, leaf spring
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Creswell Crags
Verb
blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
- (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
- (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
- (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
- (transitive) To stab with a blade
- (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
Derived terms
- hydroblade
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English blade, from Middle English blade. Doublet of blad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bleːd/
- Hyphenation: blade
Noun
blade m (plural blades)
- (sports, chiefly plural) a running blade (prosthetic limb used for running)
Middle English
Noun
blade
- Alternative form of blad
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbla.dɛ/
- Rhymes: -adɛ
- Syllabification: bla‧de
Adjective
blade
- inflection of blady:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural