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Definition of blade in English: bladenoun bleɪdbleɪd 1The flat cutting edge of a knife, saw, or other tool or weapon. cut cleanly using a sharp blade Example sentencesExamples - Lay the clove on a cutting board and smash it with the flat of a knife blade.
- He produced a knife with a six-inch blade which he waved at the guard, forcing him to back off.
- Often the working blade of a tool is called its head, like the head of an axe.
- As with all of of our knives, the blade is incredibly sharp with amazing cutting power for its size.
- His words were cutting mercilessly into my heart like the cold blade of a sharp knife.
- Police have not yet recovered the murder weapon, believed to be a knife with a substantial blade.
- As he demanded money he struggled to open the blade of the knife before panicking and leaving.
- Cutting blades need particular attention, but take care and consult an expert if you're unused to handling sharp implements.
- He kept the knife blade flat against his wrist, hidden in the fold of his sleeve.
- There are two distinct operations in putting a really superb cutting edge on a blade.
- The backerboard can be scored and snapped, or cut with a saw blade designed for cutting concrete and stone.
- She grimaced as she held the sharp blade of the knife against her hands.
- He had a knife in hand, a very sharp knife with a blade almost a foot long.
- The captured prince screamed and tried to get out of her grasp but she had the sharp blade of a knife pressed against his throat.
- Tear off excess paper tape at or near the floor, using the blade of your taping knife as a cutting edge.
- It suggests smacking the clove with the flat blade of a knife.
- Facing the garden, push the tool blade straight down into the edge of the turf about 3 to 4 inches.
- Coat the cutting blade often with silicone grease to prevent rusting.
- The knife was like a pocket knife, but bigger, the blade was still sharp.
- Copper pipe can be cut with a pipe cutter that has a blade designed for cutting copper.
Synonyms cutting tool, cutter, carver - 1.1literary A sword.
Example sentencesExamples - One look at the sword, a slender blade as smooth as ice, and she felt her mind sliding into soft clouds.
- He sidestepped and took a wild swing at her back, to be met by an arcing sword that struck his blade out of his hand and sent it whirling.
- The pale man coolly smiled and blocked the blade with his own sword, then counterattacked his foe.
- She crouched, turned, and swung her blade in a wide arc, making a sharp, whistling sound.
- Daggers, blades and scimitars like his looked to be the weapon of preference.
- 1.2bladesAustralian, NZ Hand shears used in sheep shearing.
Example sentencesExamples - Outside the museum is a model of a shearing shed from the colonial period with the blades for shearing and a wool press.
- Shearing was changed from machine to hand held blades which was a much longer process, but left a short coat on the sheep for protection.
- 1.3Archaeology A long, narrow flake.
Example sentencesExamples - A small number of end scrapers made on blades have been identified at the Dash Reeves site.
- They consist of a large number of carefully made large blades and flakes and an unusually high proportion of finished tools including backed knives, scrapers and borers.
- In later years, microlithic blades and other structures were found near the site.
- Distinctive long flint blades lay where they had been made around 11,500 BC, in a cold landscape swept by herds of reindeer and wild horse.
- Small worked flint blades known as microliths were perhaps the barbs of spears and harpoons with wooden shafts.
2The flat, wide section of an implement or device such as an oar or a propeller. Example sentencesExamples - This device stops the spinning blade within three seconds of release of the handle.
- A light aircraft had lost one of its propeller blades and a second blade was badly damaged, a report has revealed.
- This involves a suction device with guarded blades which removes veins like a vacuum cleaner.
- The stern rests on its port side, propeller with bent blades and railing curving up.
- Stand beneath one of the turbines and there is a powerful swooshing sound as the blades sweep through the air above your head.
- As the entire fan including blades and chassis is made of clear plastic, the light should internally reflect around inside the fan.
- Twelve shiny propeller blades, each 18 feet long, await installation.
- The fan, whose rotating blades had been disabled, had strings attached to the fan housing, radiating out from it through 360 degrees.
- The car had a single propeller and rotor blades for flight.
- Two blades of the propeller are buried in the shingle seabed, with the hub just clear.
- The first thing I noticed was the wind and cold exacerbated by the chopper's whirling blades blasting the freezing air down on us.
- The engine and nose bowl have been restored to display condition while propeller blades from another aircraft have been fitted to the hub.
- The gyroplane, which had both rotor blades and a propeller, had reached a height of no more than 20 ft after take-off when it started to nosedive.
- I'm getting very sick the whine of fan blades spinning.
- The helicopter's rotor blades began to spin, and before the rebels could even think of rescue, he had taken off.
- Most of the paddles are homemade, with aluminum shafts and fiberglass blades.
- The propeller stopped, its blades bent backward violently.
- They are the size and shape of olives, dark brown, and borne in a big, red, flat pod with lobes arranged like the blades of a propeller.
- As you walk to the parking lot, you turn and glance back at the clean lines of the white wings and the black blades of the propeller standing proudly at the nose.
- If you have to deliver a certain number of turbine blades in order to make an airplane and half of them aren't there on time, that makes for bad industrial relations.
Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, spoon, spade - 2.1 A thin, flat metal runner on an ice skate.
Example sentencesExamples - The four wheels and the metal plate on a roller skate are much heavier than the single blade on an ice skate.
- He listened to the blades of Lydie's ice-skates glide across the ice smoothly.
- Young men on blades are willing to do anything - take a puck in the face, throw their bodies into places they don't belong.
- 2.2 A prosthetic lower limb designed for athletes, consisting of a flattened length of carbon fibre with a long, curved section at the base.
Lydia is being taught to run on blades the Paralympics brought prosthetics such as running blades into the limelight Example sentencesExamples - Carbon fibre blades push off from the floor easily and absorb energy which makes them good for sports.
- These blades are designed specifically for running and are made of carbon fibre.
- The blade is made out of carbon fibre which is very light, springs back into shape, and 95 per cent of energy you put into it will come back during running.
- He accused rivals of running on blades that were too long.
- Before he had his artificial blades fitted at Nottingham City Hospital, he ran around the streets in leather cups - which were strapped on his knees.
- She is now able to sprint, jump and skip again using her new running blades
- Blades are measured between races and it is illegal under Paralympic rules to switch blades during a competition.
- Andy has taught himself to ride a bike and is even running using prosthetic blades.
- The length of an athlete's blades is determined by a formula that includes his height.
- He has been using his running blades - shortened versions of those used by Paralympics track athletes.
3A shoulder bone in a joint of meat, or the joint itself. - 3.1 The flat part of the tongue behind the tip.
Example sentencesExamples - When the front of the tongue is used, it may be the upper surface or blade of the tongue that makes contact, the tip of the tongue, or the under surface.
- The sensory distribution of nerve endings in the tongue tip is especially rich while there are few receptors in the dorsum or blade of the tongue.
- The lingual frenum can be located under the tongue and is a vertical band of tissue that attaches the blade of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.
4A long, narrow leaf of grass or another similar plant. Example sentencesExamples - The reporter did not see any cows or sheep, never mind even a blade of green grass, during the three-hour journey.
- The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
- He plucked a blade of grass, splitting it in two.
- Leaves and loose blades of grass swirled within it too.
- Her eyes wandered to the ground and stared at a blade of grass.
- The natural element could be a leaf, a blade of grass, or a flower.
- Not a leaf, not a blade of grass, stirred in the sultry air.
- Joan chewed thoughtfully on a blade of grass, leaning against a tree with her arms folded behind her head.
- I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
- He slowly sat up and dusted a blade of grass from off his shoulder.
- The soft pat of paws hardly bent a blade of grass.
- Seldom will a blade of grass have been more eagerly awaited.
- While the majority of weeds have broad leaves, some may have narrow leaves similar to blades of grass.
- The grass feels cold and refreshing against my bare feet, the blades tickling between my toes as I walk.
- It is an exciting moment for me when I see a blade of grass or see a leaf of a tree, and when I listen to birds chattering and to running water in a stream.
- A blade of grass glinted in his palm, wet with dew.
- Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so.
- For more than three hundred kilometres not a blade of grass was to be seen.
- She looked up at him and pulled a blade of grass out of his hair and tossed it aside.
- The streets were covered with these buildings, and not a blade of grass nor a leafy tree could be found.
- 4.1Botany The broad, thin part of a leaf apart from the stalk.
Example sentencesExamples - The mixture is pale yellow, flecked with blades of rosemary.
- The iliac blade tapers and thins ventrally so that its ventral surface forms a sharp ridge.
- For one, I could hear insects moving and blades of wheat moving against each other.
- They climb on leaf blades and clip them off, causing the blades to fall unconsumed to the ground.
- The collar is where the leaf blade visually breaks away from the sheath and the stalk.
5dated, informal A dashing or energetic young man. the director, a young blade in an oversized suit Example sentencesExamples - In the nightclubs of wartime London, young blades trying to impress their girlfriends would turn up sometimes wearing German uniforms.
- It isn't hard to see why the makers of the upcoming film chose to cast him as the spoilt young blade.
- They were triumphant and he felt like a dashing young blade in football.
- Our guide, Thomas, is an enthusiastic young blade.
- I should mention that we young blades came from the north side of the bog, a distance of more than two miles.
Synonyms dandy, fop, gallant, cavalier, man about town
verb bleɪdbleɪd [no object]US informal Skate using Rollerblades. she loves to run, bike, blade, and explore the city blading with the wind in your face…that's really nice Example sentencesExamples - I was down at the park this morning blading for about two hours.
- I was blading (well rolling really…) down a very slight hill, and started to pick up momentum.
- Action Man needs all his abilities and expertise in blading, diving, motor biking, parachuting and climbing - to fight against these evil-doers!
- It is also home to a dynamic range of attractions and miles of wonderful beaches with paved paths for jogging, biking and blading.
- No, actually, you're going to train with me, he said, you're really good at blading.
- I bladed to Ian's house - about a-mile-and-a-half from my house!
- Okay, we'll go back to my house and I'll change and we'll go blading.
- Since it is a paved trail, it's perfect for running, cycling, blading, and cross-country skiing.
- I was blading along the sidewalk near the church.
- I was down at the park blading with a bunch of church friends yesterday afternoon.
- They started walking and blading to the pizza place.
- I really need to watch what I eat and start blading more.
- Affiliates can offer their subscribers a chance to win one of four risky adventures: climbing in San Francisco; sky-surfing in New York; snowboarding in Alaska; or blading in Florida.
- Judy loved ice-skating as much as Doug loved blading.
- To go blading in Hyde Park was the only thing to do, and I made the novel discovery that it feels even better without your shirt on.
- If you become a really skilled skater, blading backwards will give your legs an extra challenge.
- I grabbed his violin and bladed over to the counter where they were more than happy to keep it safe for the time being.
Origin Old English blæd 'leaf of a plant' (also in sense 2 of the noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch blad and German Blatt. Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, raid, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade Definition of blade in US English: bladenounblādbleɪd 1The flat cutting edge of a knife, saw, or other tool or weapon. Example sentencesExamples - Coat the cutting blade often with silicone grease to prevent rusting.
- The backerboard can be scored and snapped, or cut with a saw blade designed for cutting concrete and stone.
- There are two distinct operations in putting a really superb cutting edge on a blade.
- She grimaced as she held the sharp blade of the knife against her hands.
- It suggests smacking the clove with the flat blade of a knife.
- His words were cutting mercilessly into my heart like the cold blade of a sharp knife.
- Facing the garden, push the tool blade straight down into the edge of the turf about 3 to 4 inches.
- Police have not yet recovered the murder weapon, believed to be a knife with a substantial blade.
- The knife was like a pocket knife, but bigger, the blade was still sharp.
- Cutting blades need particular attention, but take care and consult an expert if you're unused to handling sharp implements.
- As with all of of our knives, the blade is incredibly sharp with amazing cutting power for its size.
- Tear off excess paper tape at or near the floor, using the blade of your taping knife as a cutting edge.
- The captured prince screamed and tried to get out of her grasp but she had the sharp blade of a knife pressed against his throat.
- Copper pipe can be cut with a pipe cutter that has a blade designed for cutting copper.
- As he demanded money he struggled to open the blade of the knife before panicking and leaving.
- Often the working blade of a tool is called its head, like the head of an axe.
- He produced a knife with a six-inch blade which he waved at the guard, forcing him to back off.
- He had a knife in hand, a very sharp knife with a blade almost a foot long.
- He kept the knife blade flat against his wrist, hidden in the fold of his sleeve.
- Lay the clove on a cutting board and smash it with the flat of a knife blade.
Synonyms cutting tool, cutter, carver - 1.1
- 1.2literary A sword.
Example sentencesExamples - He sidestepped and took a wild swing at her back, to be met by an arcing sword that struck his blade out of his hand and sent it whirling.
- The pale man coolly smiled and blocked the blade with his own sword, then counterattacked his foe.
- Daggers, blades and scimitars like his looked to be the weapon of preference.
- One look at the sword, a slender blade as smooth as ice, and she felt her mind sliding into soft clouds.
- She crouched, turned, and swung her blade in a wide arc, making a sharp, whistling sound.
- 1.3Archaeology A long, narrow flake.
Example sentencesExamples - They consist of a large number of carefully made large blades and flakes and an unusually high proportion of finished tools including backed knives, scrapers and borers.
- A small number of end scrapers made on blades have been identified at the Dash Reeves site.
- Distinctive long flint blades lay where they had been made around 11,500 BC, in a cold landscape swept by herds of reindeer and wild horse.
- In later years, microlithic blades and other structures were found near the site.
- Small worked flint blades known as microliths were perhaps the barbs of spears and harpoons with wooden shafts.
2The flat, wide section of an implement or device such as an oar or a propeller. Example sentencesExamples - I'm getting very sick the whine of fan blades spinning.
- The stern rests on its port side, propeller with bent blades and railing curving up.
- A light aircraft had lost one of its propeller blades and a second blade was badly damaged, a report has revealed.
- The engine and nose bowl have been restored to display condition while propeller blades from another aircraft have been fitted to the hub.
- This involves a suction device with guarded blades which removes veins like a vacuum cleaner.
- This device stops the spinning blade within three seconds of release of the handle.
- As you walk to the parking lot, you turn and glance back at the clean lines of the white wings and the black blades of the propeller standing proudly at the nose.
- Twelve shiny propeller blades, each 18 feet long, await installation.
- Most of the paddles are homemade, with aluminum shafts and fiberglass blades.
- Two blades of the propeller are buried in the shingle seabed, with the hub just clear.
- The fan, whose rotating blades had been disabled, had strings attached to the fan housing, radiating out from it through 360 degrees.
- They are the size and shape of olives, dark brown, and borne in a big, red, flat pod with lobes arranged like the blades of a propeller.
- The propeller stopped, its blades bent backward violently.
- The car had a single propeller and rotor blades for flight.
- The gyroplane, which had both rotor blades and a propeller, had reached a height of no more than 20 ft after take-off when it started to nosedive.
- The helicopter's rotor blades began to spin, and before the rebels could even think of rescue, he had taken off.
- Stand beneath one of the turbines and there is a powerful swooshing sound as the blades sweep through the air above your head.
- The first thing I noticed was the wind and cold exacerbated by the chopper's whirling blades blasting the freezing air down on us.
- As the entire fan including blades and chassis is made of clear plastic, the light should internally reflect around inside the fan.
- If you have to deliver a certain number of turbine blades in order to make an airplane and half of them aren't there on time, that makes for bad industrial relations.
Synonyms oar, scull, sweep, spoon, spade - 2.1 A thin, flat metal runner on an ice skate.
Example sentencesExamples - He listened to the blades of Lydie's ice-skates glide across the ice smoothly.
- The four wheels and the metal plate on a roller skate are much heavier than the single blade on an ice skate.
- Young men on blades are willing to do anything - take a puck in the face, throw their bodies into places they don't belong.
- 2.2 A prosthetic lower limb designed for athletes, consisting of a flattened length of carbon fiber with a long, curved section at the base.
Lydia is being taught to run on blades the Paralympics brought prosthetics such as running blades into the limelight Example sentencesExamples - Carbon fibre blades push off from the floor easily and absorb energy which makes them good for sports.
- The blade is made out of carbon fibre which is very light, springs back into shape, and 95 per cent of energy you put into it will come back during running.
- He accused rivals of running on blades that were too long.
- He has been using his running blades - shortened versions of those used by Paralympics track athletes.
- Before he had his artificial blades fitted at Nottingham City Hospital, he ran around the streets in leather cups - which were strapped on his knees.
- These blades are designed specifically for running and are made of carbon fibre.
- Andy has taught himself to ride a bike and is even running using prosthetic blades.
- She is now able to sprint, jump and skip again using her new running blades
- The length of an athlete's blades is determined by a formula that includes his height.
- Blades are measured between races and it is illegal under Paralympic rules to switch blades during a competition.
3A shoulder bone in a cut of meat, or the cut of meat itself. - 3.1 The flat part of the tongue behind the tip.
Example sentencesExamples - When the front of the tongue is used, it may be the upper surface or blade of the tongue that makes contact, the tip of the tongue, or the under surface.
- The sensory distribution of nerve endings in the tongue tip is especially rich while there are few receptors in the dorsum or blade of the tongue.
- The lingual frenum can be located under the tongue and is a vertical band of tissue that attaches the blade of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.
4A long, narrow leaf of grass or another similar plant. Example sentencesExamples - He plucked a blade of grass, splitting it in two.
- The natural element could be a leaf, a blade of grass, or a flower.
- She looked up at him and pulled a blade of grass out of his hair and tossed it aside.
- I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
- The grass feels cold and refreshing against my bare feet, the blades tickling between my toes as I walk.
- Seldom will a blade of grass have been more eagerly awaited.
- Leaves and loose blades of grass swirled within it too.
- The streets were covered with these buildings, and not a blade of grass nor a leafy tree could be found.
- The soft pat of paws hardly bent a blade of grass.
- Her eyes wandered to the ground and stared at a blade of grass.
- He slowly sat up and dusted a blade of grass from off his shoulder.
- Joan chewed thoughtfully on a blade of grass, leaning against a tree with her arms folded behind her head.
- Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so.
- For more than three hundred kilometres not a blade of grass was to be seen.
- A blade of grass glinted in his palm, wet with dew.
- It is an exciting moment for me when I see a blade of grass or see a leaf of a tree, and when I listen to birds chattering and to running water in a stream.
- The reporter did not see any cows or sheep, never mind even a blade of green grass, during the three-hour journey.
- While the majority of weeds have broad leaves, some may have narrow leaves similar to blades of grass.
- Not a leaf, not a blade of grass, stirred in the sultry air.
- The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
- 4.1Botany The broad, thin part of a leaf apart from the stalk.
Example sentencesExamples - They climb on leaf blades and clip them off, causing the blades to fall unconsumed to the ground.
- For one, I could hear insects moving and blades of wheat moving against each other.
- The mixture is pale yellow, flecked with blades of rosemary.
- The iliac blade tapers and thins ventrally so that its ventral surface forms a sharp ridge.
- The collar is where the leaf blade visually breaks away from the sheath and the stalk.
5dated, informal A dashing or energetic young man. Example sentencesExamples - They were triumphant and he felt like a dashing young blade in football.
- I should mention that we young blades came from the north side of the bog, a distance of more than two miles.
- In the nightclubs of wartime London, young blades trying to impress their girlfriends would turn up sometimes wearing German uniforms.
- It isn't hard to see why the makers of the upcoming film chose to cast him as the spoilt young blade.
- Our guide, Thomas, is an enthusiastic young blade.
Synonyms dandy, fop, gallant, cavalier, man about town
verbblādbleɪd [no object]US informal Skate using in-line skates. we bladed into the parking lot behind Mensky's Example sentencesExamples - It is also home to a dynamic range of attractions and miles of wonderful beaches with paved paths for jogging, biking and blading.
- If you become a really skilled skater, blading backwards will give your legs an extra challenge.
- Affiliates can offer their subscribers a chance to win one of four risky adventures: climbing in San Francisco; sky-surfing in New York; snowboarding in Alaska; or blading in Florida.
- Since it is a paved trail, it's perfect for running, cycling, blading, and cross-country skiing.
- They started walking and blading to the pizza place.
- I was down at the park blading with a bunch of church friends yesterday afternoon.
- I was blading (well rolling really…) down a very slight hill, and started to pick up momentum.
- I bladed to Ian's house - about a-mile-and-a-half from my house!
- No, actually, you're going to train with me, he said, you're really good at blading.
- To go blading in Hyde Park was the only thing to do, and I made the novel discovery that it feels even better without your shirt on.
- Action Man needs all his abilities and expertise in blading, diving, motor biking, parachuting and climbing - to fight against these evil-doers!
- I was blading along the sidewalk near the church.
- Judy loved ice-skating as much as Doug loved blading.
- Okay, we'll go back to my house and I'll change and we'll go blading.
- I was down at the park this morning blading for about two hours.
- I really need to watch what I eat and start blading more.
- I grabbed his violin and bladed over to the counter where they were more than happy to keep it safe for the time being.
Origin Old English blæd ‘leaf of a plant’ (also in blade (sense 2 of the noun)), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch blad and German Blatt. |