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blades

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6 characters
English (US)
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blades

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, blades is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofblades

1noun
  • The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
  • The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  • The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
  • The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
  • A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
  • A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
  • The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
  • A sword or knife.
  • 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.
  • (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
  • The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
  • A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
  • A dashing young man.
  • A homosexual, usually male.
  • Thin plate, foil.
  • One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
  • (in the plural) 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.
  • Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
  • A blade server.
  • 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.)
  • The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
1verb
  • To skate on rollerblades.

    Example: "Want to go blading with me later in the park?"

  • To furnish with a blade.
  • To put forth or have a blade.
  • To stab with a blade

    Example: "The gang member got bladed in a fight."

  • To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
1noun
  • A kind of piton used in thin cracks.

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