Blade (disambiguation)

A blade is a sharp cutting part, for instance of a weapon or tool.

Blade may also refer to:

Buildings

• Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering
• The Blade Reading, a skyscraper in Reading, Berkshire

Computing and technology

• Blade, a templating engine used in the Laravel PHP framework
• BLADE (software), Block All Drive-by Download Exploits, software developed at Georgia Tech and SRI International
• Blade server, a self-contained computer server, designed for high density
• Blade PC
• Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE), a laminar flow experiment
• ZTE Blade, a cellphone manufactured by the ZTE Corporation

Entertainment

• Blade (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Blade (franchise), a franchise consisting of three films and a television series based on the Marvel Comics character
  • Blade (film), the first film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 1998
  • Blade II, the second film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 2002
  • Blade: Trinity, the third and final film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 2004
  • Blade (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the first film in the Blade trilogy
  • Blade (TV series), a television series taking place after the events of the last film, which ran in 2006
  • Blade, upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, with Mahershala Ali playing the titular character
• The Blade (film), a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Tsui Hark
• Bladee, a Swedish rapper/songwriter
• Blades, a fictional organization in The Elder Scrolls series of computer games
• BLADE, a fictional military organization in the video game Xenoblade Chronicles X
• Blade (Puppet Master), a character within the Puppet Master horror film franchise
• Blades (Transformers), a street-brawling Autobot from the Transformers series
• Blading (professional wrestling), to cut oneself in order to draw blood for dramatic effect
• Blade (Masters of the Universe), a character from the Masters of the Universe franchise series
• Blade, a character in two episodes of the TV sitcom Punky Brewster
• Blade, stage name for Al Green (wrestler)
• Blades (hip hop group) (formerly Blades of Hades), an Australian hip hop group from Newcastle, New South Wales
• Blade (artscene group), a group active during the 1990s
• Blades Club, M's private card club featured in several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels
• Kamen Rider Blade, a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series
• Blade (video game), video game produced by Activision for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation
• Blade, a station ident for British television channel BBC Two from the 1991–2001 series
• Richard Blade, radio, television, and film personality
• Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer

Place name

• Blades, Delaware, in the United States
• Blades, Barbados

Publications

• The Blade (Toledo), a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio
• Washington Blade, a gay newspaper
• The New York Blade, a gay newspaper
• Monthly Comic Blade, a monthly manga anthology magazine published by Mag Garden
• Blade (magazine), a knife collecting magazine

Sports

• Kansas City Blades, a defunct American ice hockey team
• The Blades, common nickname for the UK football team Sheffield United and their fans
• Chengdu Blades F.C., Chinese football club
• A component of a spinnerbait fishing lure
• A blade is a part of a rowing or sculling oar; the word is also used to refer to a whole oar
• A blade is a type of golf club, referring to the shape of an iron's clubhead
• Saskatoon Blades, Western Hockey League franchise
• A type of lower leg prosthesis used by amputee athletes in running events

Other uses

• Bladed weapon, especially a sword
• Razor blade, used for shaving
• Blade (archaeology), a type of stone tool
• Blade (company), a crowdsourced short-distance aviation company
• Blade (geometry), a generalization of vectors in higher-dimensional vector spaces in geometric algebra
• Prismatic blade, a type of stone archeological artifact that is long and narrow with parallel margins
• Blade, an often curved metal plate installed on the front of a bulldozer
• Leaf blade, a major part of a leaf
• Botanical term for the wider distal part of a petal, sepal or bract
• Blade (algae), another word for lamina, the leaf-life structures on seaweed
• Tongue blade, the part of the tongue just behind the tip
• Toyota Auris, a car, also known as Toyota Blade in Japan
• A rotating aerofoil or wing of a rotary engine (turbine, compressor, ...) or a propeller

See also

• The Blade (disambiguation)