Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bluhd]
- /blʌd/
- /blʌd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bluhd]
- /blʌd/
Definitions of blood word
- uncountable noun blood Blood is the red liquid that flows inside your body, which you can see if you cut yourself. 3
- uncountable noun blood You can use blood to refer to the race or social class of someone's parents or ancestors. 3
- phrase blood If you say that someone draws first blood, you mean that they have had a success at the beginning of a competition or conflict. 3
- noun blood a reddish fluid in vertebrates that is pumped by the heart through the arteries and veins, supplies tissues with nutrients, oxygen, etc, and removes waste products. It consists of a fluid (see blood plasma) containing cells (erythrocytes, leucocytes, and platelets) 3
- noun blood a similar fluid in such invertebrates as annelids and arthropods 3
- noun blood bloodshed, esp when resulting in murder 3
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Origin of blood
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English blo(o)d, Old English blōd; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon blōd, Old High German bluot (German Blut), Old Norse blōth, Gothic bloth < Germanic *blōdan, an old neuter adj. meaning “spurting” that accompanied the lost IE noun *HesHr (> Hittite eshar) blood; akin to bloom1; for the meaning cf. spurt and sprout
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Blood
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
blood popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 99% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for blood
noun blood
- juice — the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit: orange juice.
- clot — A clot is a sticky lump that forms when blood dries up or becomes thick.
- gore — a city in W Ethiopia.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- plasma — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
Antonyms for blood
noun blood
- death — Death is the permanent end of the life of a person or animal.
- conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
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