(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”.
Slade
Definition:
(n.) A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
(n.) The sole of a plow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phyllis Gardner, a Slade school art student and suffragette with flaming red hair, fell in love with Brooke while sitting opposite him on the Great Northern train to Cambridge.
(2) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the big six providers and has been regarded as a defender of fossil fuels, said the shift was urgent in order not to be left behind.
(3) She moved to London in the 50s and trained as a painter at the Slade.
(4) The winning feature about being represented by Martha Costello is the fact that she's followed about by her ridiculously aesthetically pleasing "pupil" Nick Slade (Tom Hughes).
(5) This exhibition about the glam rock era contains several huge photographs of me with the rest of Slade.
(6) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
(7) Three of the staff who had already given evidence had been working there when this happened, and hadn’t mentioned it.” A document disclosed at the inquest showed an action plan had been written following an incident at Slade House in 2004, stating “the baths should be removed because they were therapeutic and too deep – hence not fit for purpose”.
(8) Could the reason be lan's unconscious rapport with the audience in the tradition of Slade, Smiths and, er, Sham 69 – one of those you-could-be-up-here-too types of groups that are so typically British?
(9) The consultant who admitted him said, in his view, Connor was dead by the time the rescue people got there – but Southern Health didn’t even have the guts to say it was urgent.” At the inquest, it emerged that the tone of the 999 call made from Slade House was so vague, the operator initially said they would book Connor in for a four-hour ambulance response.
(10) Augustus was going to the Slade School of Fine Art - and because he went, she went too.
(11) Amid concern about the lights going out, 60 local authorities argued last week that coal-fired power stations should be kept open, but Slade surprisingly disagrees, saying we need lower-carbon solutions.
(12) In the first study 40 pregnant women, at approximately 4 month's duration, were found to overestimate their bodily dimensions, albeit to a lesser extent than the previously tested group of anorexia nervosa patients (Slade & Russell, 1973a).
(13) In September 2013, six weeks after Connor died, the Care Quality Commission visited Slade House , and failed it on all 10 counts it inspected: there was no battery in the defibrillator, no oxygen in the oxygen tank, no therapeutic interactions, there were traces of faeces in the furniture, medicines were out of date – and on it went.
(14) asks Peter Slade The answer to this one is nearly as simple as David Beckham.
(15) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of the trade body Energy UK, accused the Conservatives of “giving up on competition”.
(16) "Savers' money was in high demand during 2009, leading many banks and building societies to offer rates as much as 10 times the base rate," said Michelle Slade, spokeswoman at Moneyfacts.co.uk.
(17) "All the partners and staff are immensely grateful to Jon for his outstanding contribution to Alchemy," Slade said. "
(18) It was a non-event in the first half, there wasn’t much in it,” Slade said.
(19) Friend, Patric L. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.), and Hutton D. Slade.
(20) He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves , Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.