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blade

//bleɪd//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for blade

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
blades

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
blade
past (v2)
bladed
past participle (v3)
bladed
present participle
blading
3rd person singular
blades

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

  2. 2.The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

  3. 3.The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

  4. 4.The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To skate on rollerblades.(informal)

    • Want to go blading with me later in the park?
  2. 2.To furnish with a blade.

  3. 3.To put forth or have a blade.

    • As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
  4. 4.To stab with a blade

    • The gang member got bladed in a fight.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3631

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Uncommon

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.

Proto-Germanic *bladą

Proto-West Germanic *blad

Old English blæd

Middle English bladder.

Middle English blade

English blade

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