Blade vs Dot - What's the difference?
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The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
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(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
The flat part of the tongue.
(poetic) A sword or knife.
(archaeology) 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.
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
(sailing) 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.
(dated) A dashing young man.
* Coleridge
(slang, chiefly, US) A homosexual, usually male.
Thin plate, foil.
(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
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.
Airfoil]] in windmills and [[w:windturbine, windturbines.
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
To furnish with a blade.
(poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
* P. Fletcher
A small spot.
(grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin script. Examples include: ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, etc.
(mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
(obsolete) A lump or clot.
Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
(cricket, informal) A dot ball.
To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
To mark by means of dots or small spots.
To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
(US, Louisiana) A dowry.
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* 1927 , Anna Bowman Dodd, Talleyrand: the Training of a Statesman :
In transitive terms the difference between blade and dot
is that blade is to furnish with a blade while dot is to add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.As nouns the difference between blade and dot
is that blade is the sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade while dot is a small spot.As verbs the difference between blade and dot
is that blade is to skate on rollerblades while dot is to cover with small spots (of some liquid).As a preposition dot is
dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.As a proper noun Dot is
diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.As an acronym DOT is
department of Transportation.blade
English
Noun
(wikipedia blade) (en noun)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- He saw a turnkey in a trice / Fetter a troublesome blade .
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Derived terms
* axeblade * blade of grass * blade sharpener * bladeless * bladelet * bladelike * bladesmith * doctor blade * gay blade * microblade * oar blade * razor blade, razor-blade, razorblade * rollerblade * shoulder blade, shoulderblade, shoulder-blade * snowblade * switchblade * twaybladeReferences
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Verb
- As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed .
Derived terms
* hydrobladeAnagrams
* * ----dot
English
(wikipedia dot)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a dot of colour
- a dot of a child
Synonyms
* (small spot) speck, spot * (at the end of a sentence or abbreviation) full stop (British), period (US), point * (as a diacritic) tittle (over the letters i and j) * (sense) decimal point * (in Morse code) ditDerived terms
(terms derived from dot) * centered dot, centred dot * connect the dots * dotcom * dot matrix * dot matrix printer * dot product * dottel * dottle * dotty * join the dots * middle dot * off one's dot * on the dot * polka dot * the year dotVerb
(dott)- His jacket was dotted with splashes of paint.
- Dot your i''s and cross your ''t s.
- to dot a line
- to dot a landscape with cottages
Derived terms
* dot do dot * dot the i's and cross the t'sPreposition
(English prepositions)- The work is equal to F dot ?x.
Coordinate terms
* *Etymology 2
From (etyl) dot.Alternative forms
* doteNoun
(en noun)- "Have you the pictures still?" I asked.
- "Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot ."
- As a bride, Madame de Talleyrand had brought a small dot of fifteen thousand francs to the family fund.