different between blade vs poniard
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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poniard
English
Alternative forms
- poignard, poinard, poynard, punierd
Etymology
Borrowed from French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French, from Latin p?gnus (“fist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pew?-.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?nj?d/, /?p?nj??d/
Noun
poniard (plural poniards)
- (now chiefly historical) A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:
- The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so […].
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 101:
- One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […] .
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].
- c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.1:
Translations
Verb
poniard (third-person singular simple present poniards, present participle poniarding, simple past and past participle poniarded)
- To stab with a poniard.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
- Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
Related terms
- impugn
- pugilism
- pugnacious
- repugn (repugnant)
References
- “poniard”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
- “poniard” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "poniard" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
Anagrams
- padroni, pandori, paridon, poinard
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