How to pronounce “blade”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
• The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
• The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
• (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
• A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
• A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
• (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
• (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
• (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
• (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
• A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
• (dated) A dashing young man.
• (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
• (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
• Thin plate, foil.
• (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
• (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.[1]
• (biology) 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.[2]
• (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
• (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
• (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
• The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
• (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
• (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.

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