🔪 Cutting part 🌀 Moving part 💪 Flat body part 🕺 Lively man 🌱 Flat leaf part 🔧 To fit blades 💻 Modular server 🎊 Thin piece 🥩 Shoulder cut

to blade

8 7.7

To attach flat cutting parts to a tool or machine

verb
/bleɪd/

: montar las palas

Now, blade faster.

Examples

Once you blade, you never fade.

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
To improve efficiency, the engineer decided to blade the turbine with new blades.
"All hot for us to blade and die for 'em."

Fiction book (1996)
Okay, so-- so you-- you bladed to the open house.

Killer Whales (2022)
I blade for Christ.

Killer Whales (2022)
In order to increase speed, you must blade your racing propeller correctly.
The technician learned how to blade the new machinery to ensure optimal performance.

Idioms

as sharp as a razor-blade

5.0

Very clear and exact so there is no doubt

Compounds

shoulder blade

Specialized

14 2.4

A flat, triangular bone on each side of the upper back that helps hold the arm

knife blade

3 1.0

The flat sharp part of a knife used for cutting

rotor blade

Specialized

3 4.4

A long blade that turns to lift a helicopter

wiper blade

2 2.4

A long thin strip of rubber that wipes a car windshield

fan blade

1 2.8

A flat narrow piece on a fan that turns to move air

blade apple

9.9

A small yellow or orange fruit from a cactus used to make jam and desserts

blade bit

Specialized

7.5

A drill part with hard cutting edges that makes holes in wood or metal

blade roast

5.1

A cut of meat from the shoulder used for roasting

leaf blade

3.7

A broad flat part of a leaf that is not the stalk

rudder blade

Specialized

5.4

A flat vertical part at the back of a boat or plane that moves to steer it

Surface Forms

blade infinitive

bladed past

bladed past participle

blading present participle

blades third person singular

Etymology

Blade as a verb (to blade) simply comes from the noun blade and means 'to add or fit blades', so the action is named after the thin, flat parts you attach.