blood
English
Alternative forms
- bloud (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bloud, West Frisian bloed, Dutch bloed, German Blut, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian blod.
Pronunciation
- enPR: blŭd, IPA(key): /blʌd/
- (Northern UK) enPR: blo͝od, IPA(key): /blʊd/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ʌd
Noun
blood (countable and uncountable, plural bloods)
- A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
- The blood flows into the menstrual cup.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths, London: Printed for Tho. Harper for Edvvard Dod, OCLC 838860010; Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths. […], book 3, 2nd corrected and much enlarged edition, London: Printed by A. Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath. Ekins, […], 1650, OCLC 152706203, page 133:
- It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
- The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
- A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Waller
- a friend of our own blood
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott
- to share the blood of Saxon royalty
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Waller
- (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
- (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
- 2016, Steve Jamieson, Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog
- When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.
- 2016, Steve Jamieson, Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog
- The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
- 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
- 1901, Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture, fourth edition, page 57:
- Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
- 1916, John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest, page 44:
- Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
- 1841, Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus, page 95:
- (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.
- Bible, Genesis xiix. 11
- He washed […] his clothes in the blood of grapes.
- Bible, Genesis xiix. 11
- (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he was likely to go. When old Bligh, of the Magazine, commended the handsome young dog's good looks, the general would grow grave all at once […]
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Seest thou not […] how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 3:
- ... it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days ....
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
Synonyms
- (liquid): purging (when removed)
- (familiar relationship) background, descent, heritage, stock
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- arterial blood gas
- bad blood
- beblood
- bleed
- blood accusation
- blood and ashes
- blood and guts
- blood-and-guts
- blood and ouns
- blood and thunder
- blood and tommy
- blood atonement
- blood bank
- blood baptism
- blood bath
- bloodbath
- bloodberry
- blood bin
- bloodbird
- blood blister
- blood bond
- blood boosting
- blood-brain barrier
- blood brother
- blood cancer
- blood cell
- blood chit
- blood choke
- blood clam
- blood clot
- blood cockle
- blood corpuscle
- blood count
- bloodcurdling
- blood diamond
- blood donor
- blood drive
- blood eagle
- bloodfed
- bloodfest
- blood feud
- blood film
- bloodfin
- blood flow
- bloodflower
- blood fluke
- blood from a turnip
- blood group
- bloodguilt
- bloodguilty
- bloodhead
- bloodheat
- blood horse
- bloodhound
- bloodhungry
- blood in the water
- blood is thicker than water
- blood knot
- bloodlands
- bloodleaf
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- blood libel
- bloodlike
- blood lily
- bloodline
- blood loss, bloodloss
- blood lust
- bloodlust
- bloodmeal
- bloodmobile
- blood money
- blood moon
- bloodnut
- blood orange
- blood plasma
- bloodplay
- blood poisoning
- blood pressure
- blood product
- blood pudding
- blood red
- blood relation
- blood relative
- blood replacement
- bloodroot
- blood royal
- blood rule
- blood sample
- blood sausage
- bloodscape
- blood serum
- bloodshed
- bloodshot
- blood sister
- blood smear
- bloodsoaked
- bloodsome
- bloodsport
- blood sport
- bloodspot
- bloodstain
- bloodstained
- blood-stained
- bloodstick
- bloodstone
- bloodstream
- bloodstroke
- blood sub
- blood substitution
- bloodsucker
- bloodsucking
- blood sugar
- blood supply
- blood sweat
- blood tax
- blood test
- bloodthirsty
- blood tie
- blood transfusion
- blood type
- blood vessel
- blood wings
- bloodwood
- blood work
- blood worm
- bloodwort
- bloody
- bloody-handed
- bloody mary
- bloody-minded
- blue blood
- by blood
- cold blood
- cold-blooded
- complete blood count
- corruption of blood
- dragon's blood
- first blood
- flesh and blood
- get blood from a stone
- give blood
- half blood
- have blood on one's hands
- have someone's blood on one's head
- hot-blooded
- in blood
- in cold blood
- lifeblood
- make someone's blood boil
- make someone's blood run cold
- mixblood
- moonblood
- nonblood
- noseblood
- one's blood is up
- one's blood runs cold
- out for blood
- red blood cell cast
- 'sblood
- self-blood
- smell blood
- smell blood in the water
- spill blood
- systolic blood pressure
- too rich for one's blood
- warm-blooded
- white coat high blood pressure
- young blood
- youngblood
Related terms
Translations
vital liquid flowing in animal bodies
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family relationship due to birth, e.g. between siblings
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blood test or blood sample
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See also
Verb
blood (third-person singular simple present bloods, present participle blooding, simple past and past participle blooded)
- To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]
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- (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 121:
- Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 121:
- To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.
Translations
to cause to be covered with blood
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Dutch
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bloːt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: blood
- Rhymes: -oːt
Adjective
blood (comparative bloder, superlative bloodst)
- (archaic) not courageous
- (archaic) timid
Synonyms
- (cowardly) laf
- (timid) beschroomd, verlegen
Derived terms
Related terms
Dutch Low Saxon
Etymology
From Old Saxon blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bloːd/
- Rhymes: -oːd
Derived terms
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