Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

blade

/bleɪd/ noun, verb

Forms blades blading bladed

  1. noun The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
  2. noun (metonymic) A sword or knife.
  3. noun The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  4. noun The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
  5. noun (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
  6. noun A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
  7. noun A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
  8. noun (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
  9. verb (informal) To skate on rollerblades. “Want to go blading with me later in the park?”
  10. verb (transitive) To furnish with a blade.
  11. verb (intransitive, poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
  12. verb (transitive) To stab with a blade “The gang member got bladed in a fight.”
  13. verb (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.
  14. noun (soccer) Someone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Synonyms

lamina knifeblade leaf blade sword brand steel vane

Etymology

From Middle English blade, blad, from Old English blæd (“leaf”), from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-o-to-m, from *bʰleh₃- (“to thrive, bloom”).
Cognate with West Frisian bled, German Blatt, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blad, Faroese and Icelandic blað, Irish bláth (“flower”), Welsh blodyn (“flower”), Tocharian A pält, Tocharian B pilta (“leaf”), Albanian fletë (“leaf”). Similar usage in German Sägeblatt (“saw blade”, literally “saw leaf”). Doublet of blat. More at blow.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
  2. noun The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
  3. verb To furnish with a blade.
  4. verb To put forth or have a blade.

Etymology [OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Foil leaf of metal.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “blade”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “blade” (best matches first).

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