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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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swarf
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sw??f/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw??f/
- Rhymes: -??(?)f, -??f
Etymology 1
From Middle English *swarf, *swerf, from Old English ?eswearf, ?esweorf (“iron filings; rust”) and/or Old Norse svarf (“metallic dust”), both from Proto-Germanic *swarb? (“that which is rubbed off; shavings”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”); see further at swerve. The word is cognate to Old English sweorfan (“to rub, scour; to file”).
Noun
swarf (countable and uncountable, plural swarfs)
- (uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. [from mid 16th c.]
- (countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
Synonyms
- (chips or shavings): turnings
Related terms
- swerve
Translations
Verb
swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)
- (transitive) To grind down.
Etymology 2
From Middle English swarven, swerven (“to go; to deviate, turn aside; to stagger, be unsteady; to swerve”), from Old English sweorfan (“to wipe; to polish; to rub, scour; to file”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to mop, wipe; to rub off”). The word is cognate to Middle Dutch swerven (“to rove; to stray”) (whence Dutch zwerven (“to roam”)), Low German swarven (“to rove; to stray; to riot”), Old Norse svarfa (“to sweep; to be agitated, upset”), Norwegian svarva (“to agitate”), sverva (“to whirl”). See swerve.
Verb
swarf (third-person singular simple present swarfs, present participle swarfing, simple past and past participle swarfed)
- (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
Noun
swarf (plural swarfs)
- (obsolete) A faint or swoon.
References
Further reading
- swarf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- FWSAR, Warfs
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