(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”.
Penknife
Definition:
(n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
Example Sentences:
(1) During one alleged sexual assault, he is said to have claimed, Proctor was persuaded not to cut off Nick’s genitals with a penknife only by the intervention of Heath, who was said by the witness to have been present during the sex attack at a large townhouse in London.
(2) It is not giving much away to say that the film builds to a graphic self-amputation, one that employs not only the rusty penknife blade but also a fair few of the knife's other attachments (the dinky little scissors, for example, with which the desperate Ralston, played with great intensity and lightness by James Franco, goes to work on a stubborn piano-wire of a tendon.)
(3) A directed history and examination revealed that the patient was stabbed in the back with a penknife while leaving a bus and stepped down onto a paralyzed leg, which collapsed beneath him.
(4) On another occasion, Proctor is also accused in the same venue of producing a penknife and threatened to cut Nick’s genitals.
(5) Whenever I go to the houses of parliament these days, I make sure that I leave my penknife behind, because it is bound to be seized by the security people.
(6) "This is a minimum of six months in prison for simply having a knife, potentially even a penknife, in your pocket.
(7) All he had with him was a rope, a video camera, a bottle of water and, crucially, a blunt penknife.
(8) Perhaps most crucially, after the first alleged rape, Sherwood said she began carrying a penknife and that she almost certainly cut the attacker during the second attack.
(9) Take up an extreme sport and, at best, you'll have to cut off your own hand with a penknife.
(10) During one alleged sexual assault, he is said to have claimed, Proctor was persuaded not to attack Nick’s genitals with a penknife only by the intervention of Heath, who was said by the witness to have been present during the sex attack at a large townhouse in London .
(11) The strange thing is, he says, Linda was even angrier with Steve (as a little girl she had tried to stab him with her penknife) but she dealt with the situation better.
(12) Does Boyle believe that everyone would react as Ralston did, with the blunt penknife, in that situation?
(13) This is a minimum of six months in prison for simply having a knife, potentially even a penknife, in your pocket – not, as I've read in some press reports , for a number of offences involving a knife.
(14) "Hogan-Howe is saying that if you go out of your house with a penknife and you have a previous knife-related offence, under this arrangement put forward by the Conservatives that person would go to prison.