Blow (v. i.) To flower |
Blow (v. t.) To cause to blossom |
Blow (n.) A blossom |
Blow (n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. |
Blow (n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort |
Blow (n.) The infliction of evil |
Blow (v. i.) To produce a current of air |
Blow (v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows. |
Blow (v. i.) To breathe hard or quick |
Blow (v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet. |
Blow (v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale. |
Blow (v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind |
Blow (v. i.) To talk loudly |
Blow (v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means |
Blow (v. t.) To drive by a current air |
Blow (v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise |
Blow (v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through |
Blow (v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion |
Blow (v. t.) To spread by report |
Blow (v. t.) To form by inflation |
Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride |
Blow (v. t.) To put out of breath |
Blow (v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.). |
Blow (n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind |
Blow (n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument |
Blow (n.) The spouting of a whale. |
Blow (n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter. |
Blow (n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it. |
Blow-off (n.) A blowing off steam, water, etc. |
Blow-off (adj.) as, a blow-off cock or pipe. |
Blow-off (adj.) An outburst of temper or excitement. |
Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam. |
Blow valve () See Snifting valve. |
By-blow (n.) A side or incidental blow |
By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child |
Double-beat valve () See under Valve. |
D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
Electro-metallurgy (n.) The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping |
Kingston valve () A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. |
Metallurgy (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them |
Valve (n.) A door |
Valve (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. |
Valve (n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction |
Valve (n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. |
Valve (n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. |
Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. |
Valve (n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
Valve-shell (n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. |
blow puff | forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth, he gave his nose a loud blow, he blew out all the candles with a single puff |
blow | a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon, a blow on the head |
valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
blowfly blow fly | large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly, lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds |
accelerator throttle throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
blowgun blowpipe blowtube blow tube | a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing |
blowtube blow tube blowpipe | a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat |
butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
clack valve clack clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
coke blow nose candy snow C | street names for cocaine |
diode rectifying tube rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
hand blower blow dryer blow drier hair dryer hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
poppet poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
rocker arm valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
safety valve relief valve escape valve escape cock escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
sluicegate sluice valve floodgate penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
tube vacuum tube thermionic vacuum tube thermionic tube electron tube thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
valve | device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
mitral valve bicuspid valve left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
tricuspid valve right atrioventricular valve | valve with three cusps, situated between the right atrium and the right ventricle, allows blood to pass from atrium to ventricle and closes to prevent backflow when the ventricle contracts |
atrioventricular valve | either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, prevents return of blood to the atrium |
aortic valve | a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart |
pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
semilunar valve | a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons, prevents blood from flowing back into the heart |
heart valve cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
valve | a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
ileocecal valve | valve between the ileum of the small intestine and the cecum of the large intestine, prevents material from flowing back from the large to the small intestine |
pyloric sphincter pyloric valve musculus sphincter pylori | the sphincter muscle of the pylorus that separates the stomach from the duodenum |
metallurgy | the science and technology of metals |
powder metallurgy | the metallurgy of powdered metals, how to produce solid metal objects from powdered metal by compaction and sintering |
low blow | unscrupulous abuse |
shock blow | an unpleasant or disappointing surprise, it came as a shock to learn that he was injured |
blow bump | an impact (as from a collision), the bump threw him off the bicycle |
reverse reversal setback blow black eye | an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes, something that is thwarting or frustrating |
bastard by-blow love child illegitimate child illegitimate whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
John Doe Joe Blow Joe Bloggs man in the street | a hypothetical average man |
gust blast blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
mitral valve prolapse | cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart |
mitral stenosis mitral valve stenosis | obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) |
blow gas blowing gas | the gas leaving a generator during a blow period |
blow | exhale hard, blow on the soup to cool it down |
blow | free of obstruction by blowing air through, blow one's nose |