razor blade

See also: razorblade and razor-blade

English

A double-edge razor blade and packaging.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪzə(ɹ) ˈbleɪd/

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Noun

razor blade (plural razor blades)

2. A thin piece of steel with a sharp edge that can be fitted into a razor.
4. A replaceable cartridge in which razor blades are set, fitted into a razor.

   Synonym: head (elliptically)

6. (loosely) A thin interchangeable blade for a utility knife (especially, that of a Stanley knife) that is similar to a razor blade stricto sensu (in size, thinness, and sharpness).

Alternative forms

• razorblade, razor-blade

Translations

razor blade

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ածելու սայր (acelu sayr)
• Bulgarian: ножче за бръснене (nožče za brǎsnene)
• Catalan: fulla d'afaitar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 剃鬚刀片 / 剃须刀片 (tìxūdāopiàn)

• Czech: žiletka (cs) f
• Dutch: scheermesje (nl) n
• Esperanto: razoklingo
• Estonian: žilett
• Faroese: rakiblað n
• Finnish: partaterä (fi)
• French: lame de rasoir (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Rasierklinge (de) f
• Greek: ξυριστική λεπίδα f (xyristikí lepída)
• Hebrew: סַכִּין גִּלּוּחַ (he) m or f (sakín giluákh)
• Hungarian: borotvapenge (hu), zsilettpenge (hu), penge (hu), zsilett (hu)
• Interlingua: lamina de rasorio
• Irish: lann rásúir f
• Italian: lametta da barba f, lametta f, (uncommon) lametta di rasoio f
• Japanese: カミソリの刃 (カミソリのは, kamisori no ha)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ឡាម (laam)
• Korean: 면도날 (myeondonal)
• Latin: novacula f
• Latvian: žilete (lv)
• Macedonian: жиле́т m (žilét)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: mataheu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barberblad n

  Nynorsk: barberblad n

• Polish: żyletka (pl) f
• Portuguese: lâmina de barbear f
• Romanian: lamă de ras f
• Russian: ле́звие (ru) n (lézvije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жилет m

  Roman: žilet (sh) m

• Slovak: žiletka f
• Southern Altai: мис (mis)
• Spanish: cuchilla (es) f, razuradora f, hoja de afeitar f
• Swahili: wembe (sw)
• Swedish: rakblad (sv) n
• Thai: ใบมีดโกน
• Tibetan: སྤུ་གྲིའི་ཁ (spu gri'i kha), སྐྲ་གྲིའི་ཁ (skra gri'i kha)
• Turkmen: lezwiýa
• Tuvan: бис (bis)
• Ukrainian: ле́зо бри́тви n (lézo brýtvy)
• Vietnamese: dao lam, lưỡi lam
• Welsh: llafn rasel m
• Yiddish: גאָלמעסערל n (golmeserl)

Verb

razor blade (third-person singular simple present razor blades, present participle razor blading, simple past and past participle razor bladed)

1. (rare) Alternative form of razor-blade
   • 1988, Certain High Intensity Retroreflective Sheeting, Inv. 337-TA-268, page 374:

     In the razor blade tests DeVries conducted the person who was razor blading it before cure was exactly the same person that was doing it after cure.

   • 1991, Rob Rachowiecki, Peru: A Travel Survival Kit, page 185:

     It's unlikely that anyone will razor blade your pack open inside a hotel, but light fingers may, occasionally, dip into unlocked luggage.

   • 2019, Simon Quail, Gangway: A Life at Sea, page ii:

     I was the last man aboard. The last to feel her as a living vessel before she became a steel hulk and was razor bladed.

   • 2020, Natan Sharansky, ‎Gil Troy, Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People:

     To those of us living in democracies today, the image of my father sitting at home and razor blading out a page to glue in the newly updated replacement might seem ridiculous.