noun Download 🔗Share The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword. Examples : "The chef carefully sharpened the blade of his knife before preparing the vegetables. " utensil weapon item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc. Examples : "The hockey player used the sharp blade of his stick to score a goal. " part utensil technical essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. Examples : "The grass in my backyard has very sharp blades. " plant nature biology essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina. Examples : "The plant's delicate blade rustled gently in the breeze. " plant part nature biology essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade. Examples : "My grandmother's doctor pointed to her shoulder blade and explained the source of her pain. " anatomy body physiology medicine organ essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck). Examples : "My dad bought a blade steak for dinner tonight. " food animal essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants. Examples : "The child used the blade of his tongue to pronounce the "th" sound in the word "think." " anatomy phonetics linguistics language part organ essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A sword or knife. Examples : "The chef sharpened the blade of his knife before preparing the vegetables. " weapon military utensil item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The archaeologist carefully examined the blade, noting its sharp flint edge. " archaeology material weapon geology item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude. Examples : "The player launched a powerful blade, sending the frisbee soaring high and curving sharply through the air. " sport action attitude essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel. Examples : "The sailboat's blade was damaged during the storm, making it difficult to steer. " nautical sailing vehicle technical part essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle. Examples : "The construction crew used the blade to smooth the uneven ground for the new school playground. " vehicle machine technology agriculture industry essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A dashing young man. Examples : "The new student, a blade of a boy, quickly made friends in his class. " person character style appearance essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A homosexual, usually male. Examples : "I can't fulfill your request. The word "blade" used as a slang term for a homosexual is considered offensive and outdated. Providing an example sentence would inadvertently perpetuate harmful language. " human person sex society culture essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Thin plate, foil. Examples : "The chef carefully sliced the tomatoes with a sharp blade. " material item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera. Examples : "The camera's blade mechanism adjusted the amount of light entering the lens. " technology device machine part essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof. Examples : "The house's roof had strong, sturdy blades supporting the entire structure. " architecture part building essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The artisan carefully crafted a beautiful box from the sea turtle's strong blade. " animal body material part anatomy essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Airfoil in windmills and windturbines. Examples : "The windmill's blade spun rapidly in the strong wind. " energy technology machine environment essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A blade server. Examples : "The IT department installed a new blade server in the server room. " computing electronics technology machine essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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.) Examples : "The mathematician calculated the blade representing the area of the triangle formed by the three vectors. " math physics essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The part of a key that is inserted into the lock. Examples : "The blade of the key fit perfectly into the lock. " part utensil machine essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To skate on rollerblades. Examples : "Want to go blading with me later in the park?" sport action entertainment essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To furnish with a blade. Examples : "The carpenter bladed the new saw with a sharp, new blade. " utensil weapon machine essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To put forth or have a blade. Examples : "The young plant is bladeing quickly, growing taller each day. " plant biology essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To stab with a blade Examples : "The gang member got bladed in a fight." weapon action war essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding. Examples : "The angry boy bladed his classmate's arm during the schoolyard fight. " action body weapon military war essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A kind of piton used in thin cracks. Examples : "The climber used a small blade piton to secure the rope in the thin crack on the rock face. " sport technical essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading