A homosexual, usually male.
A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
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.
The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
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.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
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.
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.
Thin plate, foil.
The principal rafters of a roof.
A blade server.
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.)
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
Synonym of knifeblade
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
A sword or knife.
To stab with a blade
To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
To furnish with a blade.
To put forth or have a blade.
To skate on rollerblades.
A person with peculiar sexual tastes.
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation.
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
To laugh loudly.
To be formed into a kink or twist.
To form a kink or twist.
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.