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What is a basic definition of blood?
Blood is a vital bodily fluid pumped through the veins and arteries by the heart. Blood also refers to people who provide energy, to a tendency a person has, or to a person’s ancestry. The word blood has several other senses as a noun and a few as a verb.
Blood is the red fluid that flows through your body. It is made of plasma, white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Blood carries oxygen and other important nutrients throughout the body. It also carries waste, such as carbon dioxide, to the lungs, kidneys, and liver to be removed. Blood is a major component of the circulatory system, which also includes the heart, veins, arteries, and lymph nodes. The verbs bleed and bled mean to ooze, leak, or exude blood.
- Real-life examples: You are filled with blood. If you cut your hand, blood will flow out of the wound. A blood drive is an event where people are encouraged to donate blood to a hospital or medical organization. A blood transfusion is taking blood from one living thing and injecting it into another.
- Used in a sentence: The butcher‘s smock was covered with pig’s blood.
Blood is also used to refer to people who provide energy, spirit, or vigor to something.
- Real-life examples: Companies, clubs, or sports teams often look for new members, referred to as young blood or new blood, to provide new energy when they are stuck in a rut.
- Used in a sentence: The basketball team started seeing success thanks to the new blood the rookies provided.
Blood is also used to mean a tendency or natural proficiency a person has that is seemingly based on their culture or background. This sense usually takes the form of in the blood.
- Real-life examples: A family that has many members become amazing painters might say they have painting in their blood. Similarly, a son or daughter of a famous swimmer may state that swimming is in their blood when they attempt to become famous swimmers as well.
- Used in a sentence: I come from a long line of bakers. Baking is in my blood!
Blood can also refer to people having a common ancestor or a shared heritage. The term bloodline also refers to this idea.
- Real-life examples: Your parents, siblings, cousins, and grandparents are your blood relatives. You all have a common ancestor that you descend from. If you have a brother-in-law or a stepmother, they are related to you by marriage rather than by blood.
- Used in a sentence: She has two brothers by blood and one by marriage.
Where does blood come from?
The first records of blood come from before the year 1000. It comes from the Old English blōd. It is related to words for the red liquid in several other languages, such as the Old High German bluot and the Old Norse blōth.
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What are some other forms related to blood?
- bloodlike (adjective)
What are some synonyms for blood?
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What are some words that often get used in discussing blood?
How is blood used in real life?
Blood is a common word. It is most often used to literally or figuratively refer to the vital bodily fluid.
Just dropped sheep blood all over my lab book. So that's how my day is going
— Rachel Motzer (@rachelmotzer) September 25, 2015
No hate in my blood.. I helped people reach goals that I was targeting myself!
— 😈😈😈😈 (@Jerseystar973) December 11, 2020
When you find out you're related by blood, to a former Archbishop of Canterbury 😱😱 @AncestryUK @Ancestry #ArchBishopRamsey
— Emily👑 (@EmilyPrince88) November 15, 2020
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Blood is an unimportant fluid that the body occasionally produces.
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The fluid circulating through the heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries of the circulatory system. Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body and removes waste materials and carbon dioxide. It is composed of plasma (mainly water, but with a mixture of hormones, nutrients, gases, antibodies, and wastes), red blood cells (which carry oxygen), white blood cells (which help combat infection), and platelets (which help the blood clot).