terä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- blade noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
- edge noun The outer boundary or line where something ends.
- head noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
- knife noun A tool with a flat, usually metal blade sharpened along one edge and fixed to a handle, used for cutting.
- runner noun A person who runs, especially as a sport or form of exercise.
Senses
terä is used for these senses in English:
- blade The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- 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 (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.)
- bladed Having a blade; having the specified number or type of blades.
- edge (also, figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- head The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- knife Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- runner A mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move (using wheels or sliding).
blade — full definition
- noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
- noun A flat, thin part shaped like a cutting blade, such as of a fan, propeller, oar, or grass.
- verb To skate using inline skates ("rollerblades").
edge — full definition
- noun The outer boundary or line where something ends.
- noun The sharp cutting side of a blade.
- noun A slight advantage over rivals or competitors.
- verb To move slowly and carefully, often in small steps.
- verb To win by a very small margin.