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▸ noun: (metonymically) A sword or knife.
▸ noun: The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
▸ noun: The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
▸ noun: (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
▸ noun: A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
▸ noun: A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
▸ noun: (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
▸ noun: (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
▸ noun: A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
▸ noun: (dated) A dashing young man.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
▸ noun: (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
▸ noun: Thin plate, foil.
▸ noun: (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
▸ noun: (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
▸ noun: (biology) 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.
▸ noun: (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade
▸ noun: (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.)
▸ noun: The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
▸ noun: (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
▸ noun: (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
▸ verb: (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
▸ verb: (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
▸ verb: (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
▸ verb: (transitive) To stab with a blade
▸ verb: (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
▸ noun: (soccer) Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
▸ noun: Short for razor blade. [A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.]
▸ noun: (computing) Short for blade server. [(computing) A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.]
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