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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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penknife
English
Etymology
From Middle English penne knyfe; equivalent to pen +? knife
Noun
penknife (plural penknives)
- Originally a small utility knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds into nibs to provide or repair writing implements in times before pens with artificial nibs, generally metal, became commercially available in the 19th century. Early versions of penknives commonly were small sheath knives.
- A small knife designed for safe and convenient storage, typically in the form of a miniature clasp knife, or with blade retractable into the handle. For the most part, such more convenient designs eventually replaced rigid pen knives in cutting quill pens or sharpening pencils.
- As the need to cut nibs for pens fell away, but small utility pocket-knives remained popular, "penknife" became synonymous with "pocket-knife". Modern penknives often incorporate other tools such as corkscrews, but as a rule are smaller than general-purpose pocketknives.
See also
- clasp knife
- jackknife
- pocketknife
- Swiss Army knife
Translations
Middle English
Noun
penknife
- Alternative form of penne knyfe
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