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Blade vs Racket - What's the difference?

blade | racket |

As nouns the difference between blade and racket

is that blade is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while racket is (label) a racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton or racket can be a loud noise.

As a verb racket is

to strike with, or as if with, a racket.

blade

English

Noun

(wikipedia blade) (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
  • (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
    • He saw a turnkey in a trice / Fetter a troublesome blade .
  • (slang, chiefly, US) A homosexual, usually male.
  • Thin plate, foil.
  • (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
    • (Weale)
  • 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.
    • (De Colange)
  • Airfoil]] in windmills and [[w:windturbine, windturbines.

    • 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 * twayblade

    References

    * Creswell Crags

    Verb

  • (informal) To skate on rollerblades.
  • To furnish with a blade.
  • (poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
  • * P. Fletcher
    • As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed .

    Derived terms

    * hydroblade

    Anagrams

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    racket

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (sporting implement) racquet

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raket

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
    • , passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
  • (label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
    • Synonyms
    * (implement) bat, paddle, racquet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
  • * Hewyt
    • Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud noise.
    • Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
    With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
    What's all this racket ?
  • A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
    • They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
  • (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
    • Synonyms
    * (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindle
    Derived terms
    * racketeer, racketeering

    Anagrams

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