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# blade

«blade» in Mova's school dictionary: **the flat, sharp cutting part of a knife, scissors, a saw…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#m1)

2) A blade of grass is one long thin leaf of grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#m2)

3) A blade is a flat part that spins or pushes, like on a fan, a propeller or an oar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#m3)

4) The blade of an ice skate is the thin metal strip you glide on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x1)
- The knife has a sharp steel blade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x2)
- A single blade of grass was wet with dew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x3)
- The fan's blades spun faster and faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x4)
- Her skate blades scraped across the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x5)
- The wind turbine has three huge blades. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x6)
- The knight drew his blade from its sheath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/15/)
- [A microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and is placed under the skin between the shoulder blades.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/332-lost-pets-microchips-holidays-and-moving-house/5/)
- [After a fine supper the Woman looks at a mutton blade-bone and makes the First Singing Magic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/93-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant/2/)
- [Gently he asks why he told such a fib, since his stamping would not bend a blade of grass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/11/)
- [Suleiman whispers: «Little man, you know that all your stamping wouldn't bend one blade of grass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/96-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.