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blade

(blād)

1. The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.

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.

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 a 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- in Indo-European roots.]

blad′ed adj.

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blade

(bleɪd)

1. the part of a sharp weapon, tool, etc, that forms the cutting edge

2. (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. (Botany) the flattened expanded part of a leaf, sepal, or petal

5. (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. (Archaeology) archaeol a long thin flake of flint, possibly used as a tool

9. (Phonetics & Phonology) the upper part of the tongue lying directly behind the tip

10. archaic a dashing or swaggering young man

11. (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]

ˈbladed adj

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blade

(bleɪd)

n.

1. the flat cutting part of an implement, as a knife.

2. sword.

3. a similar part, as of a mechanism, used for clearing, wiping, scraping, etc.

4. the arm of a propeller or other similar rotary mechanism, as an electric fan.

a. the leaf of a plant, esp. of a grass or cereal.

b. the broad part of a leaf.

6. the metal part of an ice skate that comes into contact with the ice; runner.

7. a thin, flat part of something, as of an oar or a bone: shoulder blade.

8. a dashing, swaggering, or jaunty young man.

9. swordsman.

10.

a. the upper surface of the tongue directly behind the tip.

b. the foremost portion of the tongue, including the upper and lower surfaces and the tip.

11. the elongated hind part of a fowl's single comb.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English blæd blade of grass]

blade′less, adj.

blade

(blād)

1. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. See more at leaf.

2. The leaf of grasses and similar plants.

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Noun	1.	blade - especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole leaf blade foliage, leaf, leafage - the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
	2.	blade - a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures" spring chicken, young person, younker, youth - a young person (especially a young man or boy)
	3.	blade - something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit" ribbon, thread - any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward"
	4.	blade - a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard sword, steel, brand backsword - 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 cavalry sword, saber, sabre - a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back cutlas, cutlass - a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors 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 haft, helve - the handle of a weapon or tool hilt - the handle of a sword or dagger rapier, tuck - a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges weapon, weapon system, arm - any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" tip, peak, point - a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
	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 water vane fan 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 propeller, propellor - a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water 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 aerogenerator, wind generator, windmill - generator that extracts usable energy from winds
	9.	blade - the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge ax, axe - an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle 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 sword, steel, blade, brand - a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

blade

noun

The cutting part of a sharp instrument:

edge.

Translations

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hoja pala brizna filo cuchilla

blade

[bleɪd] N

1. (= cutting edge) [of knife, tool] → filo m; (= flat part) [of weapon, razor etc] → hoja f; [of skate] → cuchilla f

2. [of propeller] → paleta f; [of oar] → pala f (Aut) [of wiper] → rasqueta f

3. [of grass etc] → brizna f

4. (o.f.) (= gallant) (young) blade → galán m, joven m apuesto

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

blade

(bleid) noun

1. the cutting part of a knife etc. His penknife has several different blades.hoja, filo

2. the flat part of a leaf etc. a blade of grass.brizna

3. the flat part of an oar. pala

blade

→ hoja

blade

n hoja; razor — cuchilla (de afeitar), hoja de afeitar

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The weapon he held straight up in front of him with blade erect, so that he might either bring it down with a swinging blow, or by a turn of the heavy blade he might guard his own head and body.

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"For which," says he, "I will give you any reasonable price; nor do I insist upon its being silver-hilted; only a good blade, and such as may become a soldier's thigh."

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The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling.

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Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.

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"We cannot fight empty air; I would almost sooner return and face foes into whose flesh I may feel my blade bite and know that I am selling my carcass dearly before I go down to that eternal oblivion which is evidently the fairest and most desirable eternity that mortal man has the right to hope for."

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Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summer time; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

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Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger.

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Still more delightful were the moments when they reached the stream where the rows ended, and the old man rubbed his scythe with the wet, thick grass, rinsed its blade in the fresh water of the stream, ladled out a little in a tin dipper, and offered Levin a drink.

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"As you will," said Vas Kor, feeling the point of his blade with his left thumb.

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The rough-handled pocket-knife was taken out in the same moment, and the largest blade opened by way of irresistible demonstration.

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In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine, Like Harmodius, the gallant and good, When he made at the tutelar shrine A libation of Tyranny's blood.

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The latter dodged the first charge, drew a wicked-looking curved blade from beneath its red robe, spread its wings and dived for its antagonist.