(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”.
Glade
Definition:
(n.) An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
(n.) An everglade.
(n.) An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autoradiographic analyses of these blots indicate that sequences homologous to HIV-1 genomic RNA and proviral DNA were found in Belle Glade wastewater but not in wastewater from Ocala and Gainesville.
(2) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(3) Serums from 95 feral swine trapped in Glades County, Florida, were tested for brucella antibodies, using the standard tube, card, rivanol, and complement-fixation tests.
(4) Glade discovered that Whittamore's ultimate source was a civilian worker at Wandsworth police station, south London, Paul Marshall, who was logging phoney 999 calls in order to justify accessing the computer records of public figures who were of interest to newspapers.
(5) STAY in a modern-day shepherd's hut recycled from old touring caravans in a glade close to Bodiam castle with the Original Hut Company (01580 831 845, original-huts.co.uk , from £79 a night) Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Le Champignon Sauvage, Cheltenham Long before foraging became trendy, David Everitt-Matthias was cooking astonishing plates using the hedgerow's bounty to supplement top-quality produce.
(6) Mulcaire's name also is likely to have surfaced during Operation Glade.
(7) When the ICO found that Whittamore had also been obtaining information from the police national computer, they contacted the Metropolitan police, who set up Operation Glade.
(8) The movie's American director, Michael Hoffman, had intended to film The Last Station in Yasnaya Polyana, or Clear Glade, Tolstoy's pastoral family estate near Tula, 125 miles south of Moscow.
(9) The high cumulative incidence of AIDS and the large percentage of AIDS patients with no identified risks in Belle Glade, Florida, were evaluated through case interviews and neighborhood-based seroepidemiologic studies.
(10) As he travels through the leafy glades of Buckinghamshire, he may not realise that he is being transported courtesy of Chiltern Rail, which, like other train operating companies in the UK, is a wholly owned subsidiary of a foreign state railway, in this case Germany's.
(11) In a quiet glade by their riverside home, Salim's teenage sons described the agony of watching their father cling desperately to life.
(12) A population-based serosurvey of human immunodeficiency virus in Belle Glade, FL, enabled evaluation of risk factors for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in this racially mixed community.
(13) As a result it was established that during the season of ticks' activity in the biotope of shrub meadows 26%, in the biotope of overgrown and trashed glades 14.4% and in the biotope of young aspen forest 13.8% of marked ticks were repeatedly found.
(14) Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium scrofulaceum (MAIS) organisms were isolated and identified from waters, soils, aerosols, and droplets ejected from water collected from four geographically separate aquatic environments (Okefenokee Swamp, GA; Dismal Swamp, VA; Claytor Lake, VA; and Cranberry Glades, WV) during several seasons.
(15) Distance 4 miles (6.4km) Classification Easy Duration 2 hours Begins Clock tower, Dunham Massey OS grid reference SJ735874 Walk in a nutshell Enjoy the woodland glades, the deer park, the gardens and the house on this pleasant stroll around the Dunham Massey estate, the full extent of which lies inside Greater Manchester.
(16) If you have read Arthur Ransome's description of Wild Cat Island – with its one pine standing proud of rowans, oaks and beech trees; its rocky shore repelling landings to all vessels whose captains did not know the secret of the island's one safe passage; and its pleasant glades where picnics could be enjoyed and stratagems hatched – you have seen Peel island.
(17) The high cumulative rate of AIDS in Belle Glade appears to be the result of HIV transmission through sexual contact and intravenous drug abuse; the evidence does not suggest transmission of HIV through insects.
(18) It was John Boyall's role which opened the door to Operation Glade's interest in the News of the World.
(19) The Maze Runner casts two-dozen teenage boys into a vast glade enclosed by a vaster labyrinth guarded by bio-mechanical predators called Grievers.
(20) Raw wastewaters were obtained from the cities of Belle Glade, Ocala and Gainesville in the state of Florida and were concentrated using several established methods for the recovery of human enteroviruses.