Blood

  • 61blood — A tissue with red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and other substances suspended in fluid called plasma. Blood takes oxygen and nutrients to the tissues, and carries away wastes …

    English dictionary of cancer terms

  • 62BLOOD — Of the same heritage or ethnic background....1) What s up Blood? 2) Right on Blood. (Miscellaneous » Casual Expressions) …

    Abbreviations dictionary

  • 63blood — n American a term of endearment or address used by black men to fellow males, it is a shortening of blood brother , or a ver sion of young blood as applied to tribal warriors. By 2005 it was a common greeting among youths in East London, usually… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 64blood — blÊŒd n. fluid which flows in the veins and arteries; life; murder, bloodshed v. let blood, drain blood for medical purposes …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 65blood — your blood s worth bottling You re a really valuable person! You re a loyal friend! This is one of the many Australianisms, along with terms such as digger , Anzac and Aussie , that arose during the First World War. It applied to a person of… …

    Australian idioms

  • 66blood — noun 1) he had lost too much blood Syn: plasma, vital fluid, gore; literary lifeblood, ichor 2) a woman of noble blood Syn: ancestry, lineage, bloodline, descent, parentage, family, birth …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 67blood — n. a fluid that circulates throughout the body, via the arteries and veins, providing a vehicle by which an immense variety of different substances are transported between the various organs and tissues. It is composed of blood cells, which are… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 68blood — n. [A.S. blod, blood] The variously colored or colorless fluid circulating in the vascular system or body cavity of animals, usually containing respiratory pigments, and carrying oxygen, food materials, excretions, etc …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 69BLOOD — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index noun blood adjective bloody (2) verb bloody See also BODY …

    English dictionary for students

  • 70blood — [OE] Blood is a Germanic word, occurring as German blut, Dutch bloed, Swedish blod, etc. as well as in English (the Romance languages take their words from Latin sanguis, whence English sanguine [14], while Greek had haima, as in English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins