Word Finder - blown

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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.

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Distended, swollen or inflated

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Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.

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Panting and out of breath

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(of glass) Formed by blowing

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Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.

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Stale; worthless

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Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.

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Given a hot rod blower.

It must have blown off in the storm.

The storm has blown two of the little ones out of the nest.

It might have even blown in the open window from a passing car.

Glass is blown into an oblong box-shaped iron mould, about 12 in.

When the storm had blown over he returned to London, and employed his leisure in works which were less political in their tone.

Her distress toppled into full blown despair.

Dean wondered if Cynthia might suspect Dean himself had blown the creep away just for spite.

In subsequent centuries the carelessness of the Spanish authorities permitted this masterpiece of Moorish art to be still further defaced; and in 1812 some of the towers were blown up by the French under Count Sebastiani, while the whole buildings narrowly escaped the same fate.

Put yourself into a full blown depression?

Now I've blown it for good!

Some houses were at once blown up by gunpowder, and thus the fire was finally mastered.

The hot days of summer were blown away by the chill of late September.

The impure spirit is blown out and the pure blown in.

This is partly dust blown on 1 See C. Kruuse in Geografisk Tidskrift, xv.

This process is repeated, with slight modifications, until the gathering is of the proper size and weight to yield the sheet which is to be blown.

From the hemispherical shape the mass of glass is now gradually blown into the form of a short cylinder, and then the pipe with the adherent mass of glass is handed.

A full account of the process of blowing crown-glass will be found in all older books and articles on the subject, so that it need only be mentioned here that the glass, instead of being blown into a cylinder, is blown into a flattened sphere, which is caused to burst at the point opposite the pipe and is then, by the rapid spinning of the glass in front of a very hot furnace-opening, caused to expand into a flat disk of large diameter.

The neck of the bottle is first formed by the plunger, and the body is subsequently blown by compressed air admitted through the plunger.

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.

The surface of the glass produced in this way may be modified by altering the surface of the rolling-table; if the table has a smooth surface, the glass will also be more or less smooth, but much dented and buckled on the surface and far from having the smooth face of blown sheet.

This term is applied to blown sheet-glass, whose surface has been rendered plane and brilliant by a process of grinding and polishing.

The decoration of zigzag lines was probably applied directly after the body of the vase had been blown.

All kinds of vessels were blown, both with and without moulds, and both moulding and cutting were used as methods of decoration.

The process consisted in spreading the leaf on a thin film of blown glass and pressing molten glass on to the leaf so that the molten glass cohered with the film of glass through the pores of the metallic leaf.

If before this application of the molten glass the metallic leaf, whilst resting on the thin film of blown glass, was etched with a sharp point, patterns, emblems, inscriptions and pictures could be embedded and rendered permanent by the double coating of glass.

Mirror plates previous to the invention had been made from blown " sheet " glass, and were consequently very limited in size.

Evelyn notes in his Diary a visit in 1673 to the Italian glass-house at Greenwich, " where glass was blown of finer metal than that of Murano," and a visit in 1677 to the duke of Buckingham's glass-works, where they made huge " vases of mettal as cleare, ponderous and thick as chrystal; also looking-glasses far larger and better than any that came from Venice."

As in 1770, carving or cutting is the chief method by which ornament is produced, the vessels being blown very solid.

In some factories they are collected in suitable tanks, and steam is blown into them, which further coagulates the albuminous par Scums. tides.

The Prussians, having seen the cavalry whilst yet at a distance, ceased firing, formed their skirmishers into groups, and the closed supports standing in deployed lines, two deep, shattered the cavalry with volleys and file-firing, as with blown and exhausted horses they endeavoured to close with their adversaries.

Opdam's flagship was blown up and he perished.

Solids may be directly admitted to the tube from a weighing bottle, while liquids are conveniently introduced by means of small stoppered bottles, or, in the case of exceptionally volatile liquids, by means of a bulb blown on a piece of thin capillary tube, the tube being sealed during the weighing operation, and the capillary broken just before transference to the apparatus.

One of the arches was broken down in 1213 and rebuilt in 1553; another was blown up by the British troops in 1809, and, though temporarily reconstructed, was again destroyed in 1836, to prevent the passage of the Carlist forces.

An open space forming the heart of the square in which the church stands separates the solitary western tower (14th century) from the choir and transept, the nave having been blown down by a violent hurricane in 1674 and never rebuilt.

After this treatment, the mixture is run into lead-lined vats and treated with sulphuric acid, steam is blown through the mixture in order to bring it to the boil, and the anthracene is rapidly oxidized to anthraquinone.

In the case of liquids containing strong acids or alkalis, which the paper cannot withstand, a plug of carefully purified asbestos or glass-wool (spun glass) is often employed, contained in a bulb blown as an enlargement on a narrow "filtertube."

The principle on which it works is that of the stopped pipe, but it is blown in the same manner as the ancient Egyptian nay or oblique flute.

The modern mouth-organ is the representative of the syrinx, although blown by means of a free reed.

The most uncommon natural feature of the district, the Pink and White Terraces, was blown up in the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, when for great distances the country was buried beneath mud and dust, and a chasm 9 m.

A " stopped pipe " in an organ is a pipe of this type, and both the fundamental and the overtones may occur simultaneously when it is blown.

When the pipe is blown softly the fundamental is very predominant, and there is a node at the middle point.

If, however, the pipe is blown strongly, the funda mental dies away, and the first overtone is predominant.

If two organ pipes in unison are mounted side by side on a windchest with their ends close together, and are blown for a very short time, they sound.

When the flames are viewed in a revolving mirror and the pipes are blown, each image of one flame lies between two images of the other.

It may easily be heard when a double whistle with notes of different pitch is blown strongly, or when two gongs are loudly sounded close to the hearer.

We may illustrate the first method by taking a case discussed by Helmholtz (Sensations of Tone, app. xvi.) where the two sources are reeds or pipes blown from the same wind-chest.

The escarp of Chi-Kuan was blown up, and at the cost of 800 men, General Sameyeda (11th division), personally leading his stormers, captured the great fort on the 19th of December.

Sand is thus blown or pumped from below the piles, which are thus easily lowered in ground which baffles all attempts to drive in piles by blows.

The river is here crossed by three bridges; the (upper) steel arch bridge, built (1895) on the site of the former suspension bridge (built in 1869; blown down in 1889; rebuilt as a suspension bridge) near the Falls, is crossed by double carriageways and footpaths and by an electric railway, and is probably the longest bridge of the kind in the world, being 1240 ft.

On the 4th of July the fort de l'Empereur was blown up. On the 5th of July Algiers capitulated.