MILWAUKEE 40Ft Wide Blade Tape Measure

A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials. Blades are typically made from materials that are harder than those they are intended to cut. This includes early examples made from flaked stones like flint or obsidian, evolving through the ages into metal forms like copper, bronze, and iron, and culminating in modern versions made from steel or ceramics. Serving as one of humanity's oldest tools, blades continue to have wide-ranging applications, including in combat, cooking, and various other everyday and specialized tasks.

Blades function by concentrating force at the cutting edge. Design variations, such as serrated edges found on bread knives and saws, serve to enhance this force concentration, adapting blades for specific functions and materials. Blades thus hold a significant place both historically and in contemporary society, reflecting an evolution in material technology and utility.

Measure may refer to:

• Measurement, the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event

WIDE or Wide may refer to:

• Wide (cricket), a type of illegal delivery to a batter
• Wide and narrow data, terms used to describe two different presentations for tabular data
• WIDE Project, Widely Integrated Distributed Environment
• Wide-angle Infinity Display Equipment
• WIDE-LP, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to Madison, Wisconsin
• Women in Development Europe; see Gender mainstreaming § European Union
• wide (tennis), meaning beyond the sidelines