blood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   temperament or disposition

   a person of hot blood

2. 2
   noun

   the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

   blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products

3. 3
   noun

   people viewed as members of a group

   we need more young blood in this organization

4. 4
   verb

   to smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

   The youth was bleed after the first kill.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

   Some insects are known for consuming blood.

6. 6
   noun

   A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.

   a friend of our own blood

7. 7
   noun

   A blood test or blood sample.

   When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.

8. 8
   noun

   The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

   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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-? Proto-Germanic *blōþą Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out". Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blu…