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blade

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Source Word

blade

IPA(Pronunciation)

/bleɪd/

Noun

metonymically abbreviation alt-of dated US slang in-plural informal

(metonymically) A sword or knife. / Short for razor blade. / The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc. / The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

Japanese Meaning

（転喩的に）剣や包丁、ナイフなどの刃物。 / 短縮形として、かみそりの刃。 / プロペラや櫂、ホッキースティック、のみ、ドライバー、スケートなどの平らな作動部分または部品。 / 草や穀物の細長い葉。

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The captain drew his blade and strode toward the smugglers' boat.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

船長は剣を抜き、密輸業者の小舟に向かって歩み寄った。

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(metonymically) A sword or knife.

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Short for razor blade.

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The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

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.

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The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

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(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.

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A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

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A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

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(chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

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(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.

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(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

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(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

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(dated) A dashing young man.

He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;

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(slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.

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Thin plate, foil.

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(photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

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(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.

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(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.

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(computing) A blade server.

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(climbing) Synonym of knifeblade

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(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

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