blade
part of speech
noun (a blade, blades)
meaning for a pupil
1) A blade is the flat, sharp cutting part of a knife, scissors, a saw or a sword. tree →
2) A blade of grass is one long thin leaf of grass. tree →
3) A blade is a flat part that spins or pushes, like on a fan, a propeller or an oar. tree →
4) The blade of an ice skate is the thin metal strip you glide on. tree →
sense in the lessons
In safety lessons blades are things to handle with care: carry knives point down, pass scissors handle first, keep fingers away from fan and mower blades. In science, wind turbine blades turn in the wind to make electricity. In stories a blade can mean a sword. Phrases: a sharp blade, razor blade, blade of grass, shoulder blade.
examples
- Always keep your fingers away from the blade. tree →
- The knife has a sharp steel blade. tree →
- A single blade of grass was wet with dew. tree →
- The fan's blades spun faster and faster. tree →
- Her skate blades scraped across the ice. tree →
- The wind turbine has three huge blades. tree →
- The knight drew his blade from its sheath. tree →
note
Countable: one blade, two blades. "Shoulder blade" is a flat bone in your back, not something sharp. A dull blade can be more dangerous than a sharp one because you push harder and it slips. Never touch a blade on a machine that is plugged in or running.
In the corpora
- Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.
- A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades.
- After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic.
- Gently he asks why he told such a fib, since his stamping would not bend a blade of grass.
- Suleiman whispers: «Little man, you know that all your stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass.
Trees and pragmatics
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