blade

Meanings

Plural: blades

Noun

• especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
• a dashing young man
  • "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"
• something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
  • "a blade of lint on his suit"
• a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
• a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
• a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
• the part of the skate that slides on the ice
• flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
• the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
• The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
• A sword or knife.
• The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
• Ellipsis of razor blade.
• The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
• The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
• The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
• The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
• A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
• A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
• The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
• 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.
• A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
• 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.
• A dashing young man.
• A homosexual, usually male.
• An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
• Thin plate, foil.
• One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
• The principal rafters of a roof.
• 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.
• Ellipsis of blade server.
• Synonym of knifeblade.
• 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.)
• The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
• An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
• The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.

Verb

• To skate on rollerblades.
• To furnish with a blade.
• To put forth or have a blade.
• To stab with a blade
• To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.

Synonyms

brand, knifeblade, lamina, leaf blade, steel, sword, vane