26984 words

blade

9 definitions • 9 examples
1
the flat part on a knife or similar tool or weapon, with a very thin edge used for cutting:

Examples:

a sword with a steel blade
2
a wide, flat part on a tool or machine, used to push back water or air:

Examples:

a propeller blade
windscreen wiper blades
3
used in the names of other objects that are flat, thin, and sometimes long, like a blade
4
a long, narrow leaf of grass or a similar plant:

Examples:

a blade of grass
5
the metal part on the bottom of an ice skate
6
a curved device that a person who has lost part of a leg can attach to their body where the leg was, in order to be able to walk or run, for example in a race :

Examples:

The blades, made from lightweight carbon fibre, store kinetic energy in a similar fashion to a spring and allow the athlete to run and jump.
7
an attractive and confident young man:

Examples:

a dashing young blade
8
the thin, flat cutting part of a tool or weapon:

Examples:

The blade on this knife isn’t very sharp.
9
A blade is also a thin, flat leaf of grass:

Examples:

The boy made a whistle from a blade of grass.

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