# blade
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
See also West Frisian bled, Dutch blad, German Blatt, Danish blad, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: blād, IPA: /bleɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪd

### Noun

blade (plural blades)
* The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
** 1904, Great Britain. War Office, Dress Regulations for the Officers of the Army (including the Militia): 1904, page 100:Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch.
** (metonymically) A sword or knife.
*** 1984, 2:08:29 from the start, in Dune‎ (Science Fiction), →OCLC:Paul: Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth. Shaddam IV: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand.
** Short for razor blade.
* The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
** 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
* The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
* (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
    Synonym: lamina
* A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
* A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
* (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
* (archaeology) 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.
* (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
* (sailing) 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.
* (dated) A dashing young man.
** 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 85:He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;
** 1832, The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth, page 189:But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.
** 1948, Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Crown, published 1951, page 94:Vice does not thrive here, because the young blades seek it elsewhere.
** 2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, page 77:Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.
* (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
* (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
* Thin plate, foil.
* (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
* (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
* (biology) 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.
* (computing) Short for blade server.
* (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
* (mathematics) 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.)
    Holonym: multivector
* The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
    Coordinate term: bow
* (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
    Coordinate terms: bladerunner, blade jumper, leaf spring
* (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
    He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.

#### Derived terms

* axeblade
* bladebone
* bladebreaker
* blade connector
* bladejob
* blade jumper
* bladeless
* bladelet
* bladelike
* blade of grass
* blade-out
* bladepoint
* bladerunner
* blade server
* blade sharpener
* bladesmith
* bladesmithing
* bladewise
* bladework
* blisk
* blucket
* doctor blade
* fan blade
* flat-blade screwdriver
* gay blade
* healing blade
* interblade
* lockblade
* microblade
* microblading
* multiblade
* nanoblade
* oar blade
* oyster blade, oyster blade steak
* razor blade, razor-blade, razorblade
* reblade
* rollerblade
* sawblade
* shortblade
* shoulder blade, shoulderblade, shoulder-blade
* sideblade
* snowblade
* switchblade
* twayblade
* twiblade
* vibroblade
* warblade

#### Translations

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#### References

* ↑ 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
* ↑ 1880, Leo de Colange, The American Dictionary of Commerce […]
* Creswell Crags

### Verb

blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
* (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
    Want to go blading with me later in the park?
* (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
* (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
** 1633, Phineas Fletcher, “Elisa”, in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies:As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
* (transitive) To stab with a blade
    The gang member got bladed in a fight.
* (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

#### Derived terms

* hydroblade

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English blade, from Middle English blade. Doublet of blad.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bleːd/
* Hyphenation: blade

### Noun

blade m (plural blades)
* (sports, chiefly plural) a running blade (prosthetic limb used for running)

## Middle English
### Noun

blade
* Alternative form of blad

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbla.dɛ/
* Rhymes: -adɛ
* Syllabification: bla‧de

### Adjective

blade
* inflection of blady:
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
** nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural