Word Finder - blowing

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To produce an air current.

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To propel by an air current.

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Blow the dust off that book and open it up.

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To be propelled by an air current.

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The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.

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To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.

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To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.

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to blow the fire

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To clear of contents by forcing air through.

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to blow an egg

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To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.

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To make a sound as the result of being blown.

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In the harbor, the ships' horns blew.

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(of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.

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There she blows! (i.e. "I see a whale spouting!")

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To explode.

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Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to blow!

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(with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.

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The aerosol can was blown to bits.

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To cause sudden destruction of.

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He blew the tires and the engine.

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To suddenly fail destructively.

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He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.

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(used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.

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To be very undesirable. (See also suck.)

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This blows!

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To recklessly squander.

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I blew $35 thou on a car.

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To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man)

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Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?

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To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.

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Let's blow this joint.

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To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.

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To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.

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To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

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To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

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To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.

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to blow a horse

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To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.

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To sing.

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That girl has a wonderful voice; just listen to her blow!

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To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.

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To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

I guess I'm just blowing off steam.

Alex was at the last window, blowing her a kiss.

She sat in her room crying like a child, blowing her nose and sobbing.

This threat forced the latter to evacuate the town and retire over the Elbe, after blowing up the stone bridge across the river.

But I need to know everything the Others told you about blowing up a world.

Are you blowing your nose or waving a white flag?

A blowing snow storm delayed our flight north.

The sudden images of Jonny sending in a hit squad on Xander or blowing up his condo went through her mind.

But you believe in blowing out the brains of a woman beater.

Every natural development of the spherical form can be obtained by blowing and fashioning by hand.

And at that moment, though the day was still, a light gust of wind blowing over the army slightly stirred the streamers on the lances and the unfolded standards fluttered against their staffs.

The white sand blowing around looked like a Texas blizzard.

Under the old system the form of the bowl is gradually developed by blowing and by shaping the bulb with the sugar-tongs tool.

The foot starts as a small independent bulb on a separate blowing iron.

Under the new system the bowl is fashioned by blowing the slightly hollowed mass of glass into a mould.

The blowing iron is constantly trundled, and the small lump of glass is squeezed and flattened into the shape of a foot, either between two slabs of wood hinged together, or by pressure against an upright board.

As soon as a blowing iron is in connexion with an air jet, the sections of the mould close upon the molten glass, and the compressed air forces the glass to take the form of the mould.

After removal from the machine, the tumbler is severed from the blowing iron, and its fractured edge is trimmed.

When the glass is being blown in the mould the blowing iron is twisted round and round so that the finished bulb may not be marked by the joint of the mould.

He had not gone far when he met a larger boy, who was blowing a whistle.

He ran home as fast as he could, blowing the whistle as he ran.

If he isn't blowing smoke, it's a world-class opportunity.

The blower repeatedly heats the lower part of the mass of glass and keeps it distended by blowing while he swings it over a deep trench which is provided next to his working platform.

The blower places the glass in the mould, closes the mould by pressing a lever with his foot, and either blows down the blowing iron or attaches it to a tube connected with a supply of compressed air.

When the air has forced the glass to take the form of the mould, the mould is opened and the blower gives the blowing iron with the bottle attached to it to the " wetter off."

The wetter off touches the top of the neck of the bottle with a moistened piece of iron and by tapping the blowing iron detaches the bottle and drops it into a wooden trough.

A bottle-making machine combines the process of pressing with a plunger with that of blowing by compressed air.

The ocean currents, the trade-winds blowing from the Australian mainland, and north-westerly storms from the Malayan islands, are no doubt responsible for the introduction of many, but not all, of these Malayan and Australasian species.

The mass of glass is rolled on a polished slab of iron, the " marvor," to solidify it, and it is then slightly hollowed by blowing.

The bowl is now severed from its blowing iron and the unfinished wine-glass is supported by its foot, which is attached to the end of a working rod by a metal clip or by a seal of glass.

It had been blowing hard from the S.E.

The allied army, raised by the junction of the Spanish troops in Galicia to 90,000, now concentrated near Toro, and moved towards the Pisuerga, when Joseph, blowing up the castle of Burgos, fell back behind the Ebro.

The second group represents, first, the birth of Mithras; then the god nude, cutting fruit and leaves from a fig-tree in which is the bust of a deity, and before which one of the winds is blowing upon Mithras; the god discharging an arrow against a rock from which springs a fountain whose water a figure is kneeling to receive in his palms; the bull in a small boat, near which again occurs the figure of the animal under a roof about to be set on fire by two figures; the bull in flight, with Mithras in pursuit; Mithras bearing the bull on his shoulders; Helios kneeling before Mithras; Helios and Mithras clasping hands over an altar; Mithras with drawn bow on a running horse; Mithras and Helios banqueting; Mithras and Helios mounting the chariot of the latter and rising in full course over the ocean.

The evidence, however, hardly warrants the abandonment of the simple process of blowing in favour of a process which is so difficult that it may almost be said to be impossible, and of which there is no record or tradition except in connexion with the manufacture of small beads.

A modern glassblower, when making an amphora-shaped vase, finishes the base first, fixes an iron rod to the finished base with a seal of glass, severs the vase from the blowing iron, and finishes the mouth, whilst he holds the vase by the iron attached to its base.

Having severed the body of the vase from the blowing iron, he heated and closed the fractured base, whilst holding the vase by means of the rod fixed in the neck.

If glass-blowing had been a perfectly new invention of GraecoEgyptian or Roman times, some specimens illustrating the transition from core-moulding to blowing must have been discovered.

Their moulds, both for blowing hollow vessels and for pressing ornaments, were as perfect for the purposes for which they were intended as those of the present time.

The hottest and wettest months are from December to March, but there is usually a fresh trade-wind blowing and the climate is healthy.

The vaporization of a substance below its normal boiling-point can also be effected by blowing in steam or some other vapour; this operation is termed "distillation with steam."

In this plant the aeration is conducted by blowing in air at the base of the condenser.

About 1893 a satisfactory machine was ready, and a new series of troubles had to be faced, for it had to be launched at a certain initial speed, and in the face of any wind that might be blowing.

A second battle, fought in the Dardanelles (July 17-19), ended by a lucky shot blowing up the Venetian flag-ship; the losses of the Ottoman fleet were repaired, and in the middle of August Kuprili appeared off Tenedos, which was captured on the 31st and reincorporated permanently in the Turkish empire.

The bottle is carefully cleansed by washing with soda, hydrochloric acid and distilled water, and then dried by heating in an air bath or by blowing in warm air.

According to Ekman's calculation with a trade-wind blowing at 16 m.

Trouble is, what I actually saw was somebody blowing down a stick of wood to a bunch of coffin dodgers.

It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed.

A still simpler form of siren may be constituted with a good spinning-top, a perforated card disk, and a tube for blowing with.

The change in pitch through motion of the source may be illustrated by putting a pitch-pipe in one end of a few feet of rubber tubing and blowing through the other end while the tubing is whirled round the head.

The Apennines shelter it from the cold north winds, and the prevailing winds in the west, blowing in from the Tyrrhenian Sea, are warm and humid, though Florence is colder and more windy than Rome in the winter and hotter in summer, owing to its being shut in among the mountains.