blade

Noun

blade (plural blades)

1. The sharp-edged or pointed working end of a tool or utensil, e.g., a knife, chisel, or screwdriver.
2. Thin plate, foil.
3. The flat or expanded part of a leaf or petal of a plant
4. metaphorically Any weapon or tool consisting of a blade (sword, knife, etc.)
5. Any of the arms of a propeller. E.g., The plane has a four blade propeller.
6. (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
7. (rowing jargon) An oar.
8. (slang, mainly US) A homosexual, usually male.
9. (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide.

5 letters in word "blade": A B D E L.

Anagrams of blade:

• abled

• baled

Words found within blade:

ab abed able ad ae al alb albe ale ba bad bade bael bal bald bale be bead bed bel blad blae bled da dab dae dal dale de deal deb del ea ed el eld la lab lad lade lea lead led

• Definitions:
• 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" sword: 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
• A blade is the flat part of a tool or weapon that normally has a cutting edge and/or pointed end typically made of a metal, most recently, steel intentionally used to cut, stab, slice, throw, thrust, or strike an animate or inainimate object.
• Blade is a 1998 film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, adapted from the Blade comics series. It was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David Goyer. ...
• Blade is a British rapper, born in the Armenian quarter of Iran and came to London when he was 7. His first single, Lyrical Maniac (Raw Bass) recorded in 1989, soon brought Blade to prominence in the fledgling British hip hop scene.
• Blade (Eric Brooks) is a fictional superhero. Created in 1973 for Marvel Comics by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan, Blade was originally a supporting character in the 1970s comic Tomb of Dracula, and has starred in several comic books of his own. ...
• Blade is a long-running consumer magazine about knife collecting.
• The video game version of Blade was produced by Activision for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation, released November 2000. It's the adventure of Blade with help of his mentor and friend Abraham Whistler, and with old remembered enemies like Dragonetti and Mannheim.
• In archaeology a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.
• Blade, also referred to as The Blade Nation, was an underground computer artscene group that primarily released ANSI, ASCII, and high resolution artwork from 1994 to 1997, and during a brief time in 1998.
• Blade is a character from Capcom's fighting game ''''. He and his 'clones' were the only characters besides Sawada included in the roster that were not in any way shape or form based off an existing Street Fighter II character.
• Blade is a character from the popular toy line Masters of the Universe, who was introduced into the toy line and mythology after appearing in the 1987 live action movie based on the toy line.
• The expanded part of a leaf or petal.
• the expanded portion of a leaf
• A single circuit board populated with components such as processors, memory and network connections that are usually found on multiple boards.
• The flat, enlarged part of a leaf
• The end of the oar that is painted in a club’s or country’s colours. This part of the oar should be just covered with the water when the oarsperson is pulling the oar through the water. Good crews will keep the blade “buried” in the water from the catch to the finish of the stroke.
• The wide, flat end of a paddle.
• The flat part of a leaf or leaflet, characteristic of broadleaf trees.
• Part of the leaf above the sheath.
• the flattened, or spoon-shaped, part of an oar that touches the water during rowing.
• The flat wooden things that move through the air and create air flow. Sometimes called paddles.
• The racket, usually without covering.
• The propeller.
• piece of stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide. Blades are struck from cores which have been deliberately prepared to make them. They are often retouched to form different types of tools.
• a linear, parallel-veined leaf, typical of a grass.
• that part of a projectile point above the hafting area. A flintknapper commonly makes the blade more distinctive by side notching or corner notching the projectile point.
• The part of a wind generator rotor that catches the wind.
• The broad, flattened leaf-like part of a seaweed thallus.
• The flat, expanded part of a leaf that is above the sheath and away from the stem. See drawing of parts of a grass plant.
• A racket excluding its rubber surface, made of wood.
• The flat portion of a grass leaf above the sheath that extends outward from the stem.
• refers to the "working" part of the sword, being essentially a form of the inclined plane. While the blades of medieval Europe are generally straight and have two sharpened edges, single edged forms are also known, particularly from the Viking Age. ...
• The leaf of a plant
• The broad flat portion of the pallet of all teredinids; the blade and the stalk are the two parts of the pallet.
• a long slender prismatic flake manufactured by indirect percussion or pressure from a prepared core. (See macroblade and microblade.) At least twice as long as it is wide.
• A flake of flint or other material used for cuttting.

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• bladdery ←
• bladderwracks ←
• blade
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• → bladelet
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