Definition of Blade

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Definition of Blade

Blade

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

The scapula or shoulder blade.

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.

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.

To furnish with a blade.

To put forth or have a blade.

The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.

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Blade Quotations

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.
Payne Stewart

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
Ridley Scott

Blade Translations

blade in Dutch is kling, lemmer, lemmet
blade in French is coupant
blade in German is Schaufel, Klinge, Blatt, Klinge
blade in Italian is spada, taglio, falda
blade in Spanish is corte
blade in Swedish is klinga, knivblad

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