(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”.
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Definition:
(v. t.) A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.
(v. t.) A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness.
(v. t.) A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.
(v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
(v. t.) An instrument to brand with; a branding iron.
(v. t.) Any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei.
(v. t.) To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict).
(v. t.) To put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc.
(v. t.) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon.
(v. t.) To mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) For the 18-month period from January 1988, 652 awards were made, consisting of 426 (65%) brand and 226 (35%) generic drugs.
(3) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(4) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(5) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(6) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(7) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(8) Three brands of glass ionomer were applied to prepared dentin surfaces of extracted human molars, after one of four treatments with polyacrylic acid.
(9) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(10) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(11) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(12) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
(13) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(14) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
(15) In the subsequent report into the row , the BBC concluded there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" over Brand's independent production company.
(16) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(17) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
(18) To circumvent this problem, 11 available brands of micropore filters (five prepacked and six to be packed and autoclaved) were investigated with the aim of finding the least toxic product.
(19) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
(20) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.