blade

B2
Pronunciation
/bleɪd/
Noun
23 definition(s)
1 Definition

The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.

2 Definition

The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.

3 Definition

The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

4 Definition

The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.

5 Definition

A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

6 Definition

A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

7 Definition

The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

8 Definition

A sword or knife.

9 Definition

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.

10 Definition

(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

11 Definition

The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

12 Definition

A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.

13 Definition

A dashing young man.

14 Definition

A homosexual, usually male.

15 Definition

Thin plate, foil.

16 Definition

One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

17 Definition

(in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.

18 Definition

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.

19 Definition

Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.

20 Definition

A blade server.

21 Definition

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.)

22 Definition

The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

23 Definition

A kind of piton used in thin cracks.

Verb
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

To skate on rollerblades.

Example Sentences
  • Want to go blading with me later in the park?
2 Definition

To furnish with a blade.

3 Definition

To put forth or have a blade.

4 Definition

To stab with a blade

Example Sentences
  • The gang member got bladed in a fight.
5 Definition

To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.