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Blade vs. Oar — What's the Difference?

Blade vs. Oar — What's the Difference?

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Blade

A blade is the portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with an edge that is designed to puncture, chop, slice or scrape surfaces or materials. Blades are typically made from materials that are harder than those they are to be used on.

Oar

An oar is an implement used for water-borne propulsion. Oars have a flat blade at one end.

Blade

The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.

Oar

A pole with a flat blade, used to row or steer a boat through the water
She pulled hard on the oars

Blade

A sword.
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Oar

Propel with or as if with oars; row
Oaring through the weeds
Oaring the sea like madmen

Blade

A swordsman.

Oar

A long, thin pole with a blade at one end, inserted into an oarlock and used to row or steer a boat.

Blade

(Archaeology) A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide.

Oar

A person who rows a boat, especially in a race.

Blade

A dashing youth.

Oar

To propel with or as if with oars or an oar.

Blade

A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action
The blade of an oar.
The blade of a hockey stick.

Oar

To traverse with or as if with oars or an oar
An hour to oar the strait.

Blade

An arm of a rotating mechanism
The blade of a propeller.
The blade of a food processor.

Oar

To move forward by or as if by rowing
Oared strongly across the finish line.

Blade

A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping.

Oar

A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.

Blade

The metal runner of an ice skate.

Oar

An oarsman; a rower.
He is a good oar.

Blade

A wide flat bone or bony part.

Oar

(zoology) An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Blade

The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip.

Oar

(literary) To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.

Blade

The expanded part of a leaf or petal.

Oar

An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

Blade

The leaf of grasses or similar plants.

Oar

An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.

Blade

To skate on in-line skates.

Oar

An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.

Blade

The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

Oar

To row.
Oared with laboring arms.

Blade

(metonymy) A sword or knife.

Oar

An implement used to propel or steer a boat

Blade

The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

Blade

The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

Blade

(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.

Blade

A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

Blade

A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

Blade

The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants. Body parts

Blade

(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.

Blade

(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

Blade

(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

Blade

A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.

Blade

(dated) A dashing young man.

Blade

A homosexual, usually male.

Blade

Thin plate, foil.

Blade

(photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

Blade

The principal rafters of a roof.

Blade

(biology) 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.

Blade

(computing) A blade server.

Blade

(climbing) knifeblade

Blade

(mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)

Blade

The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

Blade

An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.

Blade

(informal) To skate on rollerblades.

Blade

(transitive) To furnish with a blade.

Blade

To put forth or have a blade.

Blade

(transitive) To stab with a blade

Blade

To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

Blade

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.
The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade.
First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Blade

The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

Blade

The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

Blade

The scapula or shoulder blade.

Blade

The principal rafters of a roof.

Blade

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.

Blade

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; - a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
He saw a turnkey in a triceFetter a troublesome blade.

Blade

The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue.

Blade

To furnish with a blade.

Blade

To put forth or have a blade.
As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is fadedAs ever in the Muses' garden bladed.

Blade

Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole

Blade

A dashing young man;
Gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures

Blade

Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass;
A blade of lint on his suit

Blade

A cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Blade

A cut of beef from the shoulder blade

Blade

A broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)

Blade

The part of the skate that slides on the ice

Blade

Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

Blade

The flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge

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