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blade
English
Etymology
From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?h?-o-to-m, from *b?leh?- (“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: bl?d, IPA(key): /ble?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Noun
blade (plural blades)
- The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
- The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The 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.
- (poetic) A sword or knife.
- (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.
- 2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, p. 77:
- Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.
- 2009, Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors, Yale University Press, p. 77:
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of De Colange to this entry?)
- Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
- (computing) A 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
Derived terms
Translations
References
- Creswell Crags
Verb
blade (third-person singular simple present blades, present participle blading, simple past and past participle bladed)
- (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
- (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.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, "Elisa", in Piscatorie Eclogues and other Poetical Miscellanies
- (transitive) To stab with a blade
- (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
Derived terms
- hydroblade
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Balde, abled, albed, baled, blead
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English blade, from Middle English blade. Doublet of blad.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ble?d/
- Hyphenation: blade
Noun
blade m (plural blades)
- (sports, chiefly plural) A running blade (prosthetic limb used for running).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- blad, blaad, bladd, blayde, blayd
Etymology
From Old English blæd, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *blad?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?h?otom.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bla?d/, /blad/
Noun
blade (plural blades or bladdys)
- A leaf or blade; a piece foliage in general.
- A blade (sharp edge of a weapon).
- Any sharp-bladed slashing or stabbing weapon.
- (rare) A wooden tile or chip for roofing.
- (rare) Anything close in appearance or form to a blade.
Derived terms
- bladyn
- blader
Descendants
- English: blade
- Scots: blad, blade, blaud, blaid
References
- “bl??d(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-29.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bla.d?/
Adjective
blade
- inflection of blady:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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frond
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??nd/
- (US) IPA(key): /f??nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
frond (plural fronds)
- (botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.
- Any fern-like leaf or other object resembling a fern leaf.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):
- Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.
- 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):
Translations
Anagrams
- fnord
Middle English
Noun
frond
- Alternative form of frend
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