blade

  • 31blade — 1. n. a knife. □ Bring your blade over here and cut this loose. D What are you carrying a blade for? 2. n. a young man, witty and worldly. □ One of those blades kept winking at me. □ A couple of blades from the international jet set …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 32Blade — This interesting surname of English origin is a metonymic occupational name for a cutler, deriving from the middle English blade , old English pre 7th Century bloed meaning cutting edge . It may also be a locational name from a place called… …

    Surnames reference

  • 33blade — noun (C) 1 the flat cutting part of a tool or weapon: Keep the blade of your penknife sharp. | a packet of razor blades 2 the flat wide part of an object that pushes against air or water: the blade of an oar | a ceiling fan with polished blades 3 …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 34blade */*/ — UK [bleɪd] / US noun [countable] Word forms blade : singular blade plural blades 1) a) the thin sharp part of a knife, tool, or weapon that cuts things b) the metal bar on the bottom of an ice skate that allows you to move on ice 2) a long thin… …

    English dictionary

  • 35Blade —    Applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword (Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the shoulder blade (Job 31:22); the blade of cereals (Matt. 13:26) …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 36blade — i. A rotating airfoil driven by a helicopter engine to produce vertical lift. Also called a rotor blade. ii. A rotating airfoil driven by an aircraft engine to produce a thrust force approximately in line with the longitudinal axis of the… …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 37blade — [[t]bleɪd[/t]] n. 1) her the flat cutting part of an implement, as a knife 2) her sword 3) cvb a similar part, as of a mechanism, used for clearing, wiping, scraping, etc 4) aer. the arm of a propeller or other similar rotary mechanism, as an… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 38blade — /bleɪd / (say blayd) noun 1. the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc. 2. a sword. 3. (plural) handheld shears for shearing sheep. 4. the leaf of a plant, especially of a grass or cereal. 5. Botany the broad part of a leaf, as distinguished… …

  • 39blade — n. 1 a the flat part of a knife, chisel, etc., that forms the cutting edge. b = razor blade. 2 the flattened functional part of an oar, spade, propeller, bat, skate, etc. 3 a the flat, narrow, usu. pointed leaf of grass and cereals. b the whole… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 40blade — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ sharp ▪ blunt, dull (esp. AmE) ▪ curved, pointed, serrated, thin ▪ metal …

    Collocations dictionary