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Blade vs Swoon - What's the difference?

blade | swoon |

As nouns the difference between blade and swoon

is that blade is (soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc while swoon is swan.

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

    * * ----

    swoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swound (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
  • An infatuation

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Gods of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
  • to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

    • Derived terms

    * swooningly

    Synonyms

    * (faint) black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out * (be overwhelmed by emotion)