(n.) 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.
(n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
(n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
(n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
(n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
(v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
(v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
(2) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
(3) After X-ray irradiation of the neonatal rat it is known that only part of the infrapyramidal blade of the granule cell layer is formed.
(4) Earlier this year the Guardian launched Beyond the Blade , a long-term project looking at young people who are victims of knife crime.
(5) Blade Runner: the Final Cut is re-released on 3 April
(6) In 9 of 21 rats a fair or good result was observed, although it did not seem possible to create a fully competent valve with only one cusp blade in the 1.5-mm-diam caval veins.
(7) A recently recognized complication of intertrochanteric fracture is a subcapital fracture occurring at the tip of the blade of an intertrochanteric fracture fixation blade plate.
(8) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(9) The frogs were examined both after dissection (cut with a razor blade) to study the superficial blood vessel pattern, and histologically (the Nissl staining method) to study the distribution of the deep blood capillaries.
(10) If thin bone blades are fractured, as is often observed in the middle level of the face, adapting osteosynthesis is a method operating without compression.
(11) Malformations were detected by outer inspection for gross anomalies, by means of the razor blade technique for malformations of organs and by alizarin preparations for detecting anomalies of the osseuos skeleton.
(12) Immediately after the final, Pistorius said Oliveira and Blake Leeper, the American bronze medallist, were racing on blades that were "unfair" because they added four inches to their height.
(13) The razor blades were positioned to minimize shearing of tissues during sectioning so that there was no gross tissue disruption or cell death distant from cut edges.
(14) There are so many coaches in this world who want to work but can’t and there are those dashing blades who, through their quality and prestige, could work but don’t want to, because life as a parasite fulfils them professionally and economically.
(15) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(16) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(17) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
(18) However, if a contact of the electrocautery blade with the wall of the IMA or with a metallic clip parallell to the wall was allowed, a clearly visible zone of endothelial damage, sometimes associated with mural trombus formation was observed.
(19) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
(20) He also hinted that western intelligence agencies had helped in the emergence of Isis, using the militants as a proxy to fight against the Syrian regime and thereby “putting the blades in their hands”.
Blase
Definition:
(a.) Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anger is also being expressed in different genres and forms these days, add Blase and O'Brien.
(2) If Kyrgios cares about his career – and sometimes he is so blase about his success, wealth and celebrity he professes to hate tennis – the hip young dude from Canberra who smirks when he should be smiling, who plainly is struggling with fame, needs to understand he is not the only clown in town.
(3) The recombinant BLase was expressed in Bacillus subtilis and purified to homogeneity.
(4) The HFPA are altogether blase about The Master , previously tipped as an awards frontrunner, which now crucially misses out on a best film or director nod.
(5) Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Huppert was starring in Elle, an audacious masterpiece whose hot-potato plot (woman is relatively blase about sexual assault) masks an empowering and radical core.
(6) "People have had enough of the government's blase attitude towards civilian deaths when the perpetrators are the Taliban or al-Qaida," he said.
(7) To a nation of travellers already blase about Paris to Marseille in three hours, the line offers Paris to Luxembourg in two, Frankfurt in four, and Munich in six hours.
(8) Emily Phillips, a professional songwriter and mother to two daughters, Scarlett, seven, and Celeste, three, worked for three years trying to get Conway primary school up and running when she became concerned by a lack of primary school places in her area, and Hammersmith and Fulham council's blase assumption that this would be dealt with by "bulging" classes.
(9) I really love it.” He is blase about the attention, but a bit baffled by it.
(10) I covered much of their early rise for the NME and, unlike their peers who tried to act blase, the Kaisers were never able to hide how much they enjoyed success.
(11) South Koreans have had the barking hound on their doorstep for 60 years now, and have grown blase.
(12) But after a while you almost get blase at having Lucas or Zlatan around the place.
(13) He had an incredibly blase attitude to controlling birds of prey,” said Jones.
(14) Using human parathyroid hormone (13-34) and p-nitroanilides of peptidyl glutamic acid and aspartic acid, we found a marked difference between BLase and V8 protease, EC 3.4.21.9, although both proteases showed higher reactivity for glutamyl bonds than for aspartyl bonds.
(15) Blase cyclists can be seen negotiating the high-speed free-for-all that is the Place de la Concorde while puffing a cigarette and calling a friend.
(16) The main effect observed was limb paresis, which in some sheep was body side blased.
(17) Stories of industry racism are now so well known it's easy to become blase about them, and many come from the few successful black models in the business.
(18) You can’t become blase because you just have to look at the teams that have gone down this year and look at what we have done,” he said.
(19) This protease, which we propose to call BLase (glutamic acid-specific protease from B. licheniformis ATCC 14580), was characterized enzymatically.
(20) The findings clearly indicate that BLase can be classified as a serine protease.