Word Finder - blades

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The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.

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The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.

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The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

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

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A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

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A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

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The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

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A sword or knife.

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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.

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(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

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The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

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A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.

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A dashing young man.

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A homosexual, usually male.

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Thin plate, foil.

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One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

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(in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.

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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.

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Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.

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A blade server.

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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.)

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The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

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To skate on rollerblades.

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Want to go blading with me later in the park?

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To furnish with a blade.

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To put forth or have a blade.

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To stab with a blade

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The gang member got bladed in a fight.

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To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

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A kind of piton used in thin cracks.

The Swords of the Titans are monstrous blades, eight in number, 50 ft.

The incisors are small, so as not to interfere with the penetrating action of the tusks; and the crowns of some of the teeth of the cheek-series are modified into scissor-like blades, in order to rasp off the flesh from the bones, or to crack the bones themselves, while the later teeth of this series tend to disappear.

Returning to the cell, she used the long-sleeved shirt to wipe the blood off her body quickly and then to clean the blades of the weapons she snatched off the ground.

Dorsal vertebrae frequently have a ventral outgrowth of the centrum; these hypapophyses may be simple vertical blades, I-shaped, or paired knobs; they serve for the attachment of the thoracic origin of the longus collianticus muscle, reaching their greatest development in Sphenisci and Colymbidae.

In rare cases the right and left preacetabular blades fuse with each other above the spinous processes.

The only really aberrant modifications of the wing-muscles are found in the Ratitae, where they are, however, all easily explained by reduction, and in the penguins, where the wings are greatly specialized into blades for rowing with screw-like motions.

The blades of the rotator are adjustable, being fitted into its tube or body by slits and holes and then soldered.

Besides the short kris, the Malays use long straight kris with very narrow blades, shorter straight kris of the same form, short broad swords called sundang, long swords of ordinary pattern called pedang, somewhat shorter swords curved like scimitars with curiously carved handles called chenangkas, and short stabbing daggers called tumbok lada.

Much of this region is covered with gamelote, a tall, worthless, grass with sharp stiff blades.

Across the arms he balances the iron rod to which the glass bulb adheres, and rolling it backwards and forwards with the fingers of his left hand fashions the glass between the blades of his sugar-tongs tool, grasped in his right hand.

The contents of the barn are therefore left till moist weather occurs, and then by the admission of atmospheric air the leaf blades absorb moisture and become soft and pliant.

In the loftiest regions the pasture chiefly consists of a coarse grass (Stipa ychu), of which the llamas eat the upper blades and the sheep browse on the tender shoots beneath.

In appearance tsetse are somewhat narrow-bodied flies, with a prominent proboscis, which projects horizontally in front of the head, and with the wings in the resting position closed flat one over the other like the blades of a pair of scissors.

This consists of a cast-iron pan having a shallow cylindrical bottom holding mercury, in which a wooden muller, nearly of the same shape as the inside of the pan, and armed below with several projecting blades, is made to revolve by gearing wheels.

The stuff from the stamps is conveyed to the middle of the muller, and is distributed over the mercury, when the gold subsides, while the quartz and lighter materials are guided by the blades to the circumference and are discharged, usually into a second similar mill, and subsequently pass over blanket tables, i.e.

The town, the name of which is usually derived from Dhara Nagari (the city of sword blades), is of great antiquity, and was made the capital of the Paramara chiefs of Malwa by Vairisinha II., who transferred his headquarters hither from Ujjain at the close of the 9th century.

The fan has eight arms, framed together of wrought iron bars, with diagonal struts, so as to obtain rigidity with comparative lightness, carrying flat close-boarded blades at their extremities.

By the adoption of more refined methods of construction, especially in the shape of the intake and discharge passages for the air and the forms of the fan blades, the efficiency of the ventilating fan has been greatly increased so that the dimensions can be much reduced and a higher rate of speed adopted.

The illustrations show two forms of the implement, the blades of which differ in shape from those of the garden-hoe.

In the lever-hoe, which is largely used in grain crops, the blades may be raised and lowered by means FIG.

Iron was not known, but copper and tin ores were mined, and the metals combined into bronze of much the same alloy as in the Old World, of which hatchet blades and other instruments were made, though their use had not superseded that of obsidian and other sharp stone flakes for cutting, shaving, &c. Metals had passed into a currency for trading purposes, especially quills of gold-dust and T-shaped pieces of copper, while coco-beans furnished small change.

In the space between them is suspended a "needle" which consists of a light aluminium axis, to which are affixed a number of paddle-shaped aluminium blades.

This needle is suspended by a fine platinum silver wire, and its normal position is such that the aluminium paddle blades are just outside the quadrantal-shaped plates.

If the needle is connected to one terminal of a circuit, and the fixed plates or cells to the other member of the circuit, and a difference of potential is created between them, then the movable needle is drawn in so that the aluminium blades are more included between the fixed plates.

The water passes from the penstock through the guide blades of the upper wheel, and in doing so acts in an upward direction on a cover of the upper wheel, which thus becomes, as it were, a balance-piston.

In these plants the laminae or blades of the leaves are pinnate or bipinnate and are produced at the FIG.

Shovel-boards, to hold in right (93) or left hand for scraping up the grain in winnowing, are usual in the XVIIIth Dynasty, and are figured in use in the Old Kingdom Pruning knives with curved blades (94) are Italic, and were made of iron by the Romans.

Among the Persians, again, and more remarkably among the ancient Britons, there was a class of chariot having the wheels mounted with sharp, sickle-shaped blades, which cut to pieces whatever came in their way.

They had been plundered and were destroyed to within a metre of the ground, but still contained some pottery and stone vases, bronze blades, seals, and ivory fragments.

A.horizontal shaft runs length-ways through the trough, and is provided with stirring blades, arranged in such a manner that they constantly scrape the bottom, so that the salts cannot burn fast upon it, and are at the same time moved forward towards one of the ends of the trough where they are automatically removed by means of a chain of buckets.

Usually the sheaths terminate in a point, the blades being arrested.

Henry Wilde, in 1875, in depositing copper on iron printing-rollers, recognized this principle and rotated the rollers during electrolysis, thereby renewing the surfaces of metal and liquid in mutual contact, and imparting sufficient motion to the solution to prevent stratification; as an alternative he imparted motion to the electrolyte by means of propeller blades.

Owing to the slight union of the two halves of the lower jaw in front in many species the two lower incisors work together like the blades of a pair of scissors.

He also recommends an elastic aerial screw consisting of two blades, which taper and become thinner towards the tips and FIG.

When the screw is made to rotate, the blades, because of their elasticity, assume a great variety of angles, the angles being least where the speed of the blades is greatest and vice versa.

From a very early period, as the Old English word bilbo, " a sword," attests, Bilbao was celebrated for the excellent quality of its steel blades; in modern times it.

In dry-country grasses the blades are often folded on the midrib, or rolled up. The rolling is effected by bands of large wedge-shaped cells - motor-cells - between the nerves, the loss of turgescence by which, as the air dries, causes the blade to curl towards the face on which they occur.

In the same Asturian districts the government has its foundries and factories for making arms at La Trubia and Oviedo, Toledo being only now famous for its blades and decorative work, while the foundries at Seville and Segovia are unimportant compared with those of Asturias.

They are short, stumplike, muscular structures, armed at their free extremities by a pair of cutting blades or claws, and are placed one on each side of the mouth.

You're an off-duty serial killer with an affinity for weapons with blades who believes in imaginary creatures and takes the time to talk to crazy women lying on the beach.

And it's not exactly a safe job, to service those whirling blades... .

It provides a choice of straight or serrated knife blades.

The part near the end where The Doctor is walking through the spinning blades, it's wonderful.

Features a hygenic chrome plated safety head and stainless steel rotary blades that rev up to 7800 rpm to cut hair hassle free.

Chances are he saw a rotor blade closely followed by his ass flying past his shoulder blades.

Begin the exercise by lifting the shoulder blades slowly upwards.

Blades usually lose their set before becoming blunt, by being trapped in the felling cuts of trees.

The operation is intensely painful, typically performed without anesthesia, in unhygienic conditions with razor blades, knives or even broken glass.

These bubbles that are produced then immediately collapse, releasing energy that can cause a cavitation burn on the propeller blades.

The sound effects and music are excellent too, completing the atmosphere and excitement of the game as punches thump and blades clang together.