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

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