blow

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To produce an air current.
2. To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
3. To be propelled by an air current.
4. To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
5. To create or shape by blowing.
6. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
7. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
8. To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
9. To make a sound as the result of being blown.
10. To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
11. To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
12. To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
13. To blow from a gun.
14. To cause the sudden destruction of.
15. To suddenly fail destructively.
16. (slang) To recklessly squander.
17. (informal) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
18. (slang) To be very undesirable.
19. To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
20. (slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
21. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
22. (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
23. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
24. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
25. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
26. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
27. To talk loudly; boast; brag.
28. (slang) To slander, insult, critique or discredit (someone); to reprimand or scold (someone).
29. (slang) To expose, or inform on.
30. (informal,slang) To sing.
31. To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
32. (colloquial,slang) To flatulate or defecate.

Noun

1. A strong wind.
2. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
3. (slang) Cocaine.
4. (slang) Cannabis.
5. (slang) Heroin.
6. (informal) A blowjob; fellatio.
7. An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.

Intj

Used to express displeasure or frustration.

Adj

Blue.

Noun

1. The act of striking or hitting.
2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
3. A damaging occurrence.
4. A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
5. An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
6. Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)

Noun

1. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
2. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
3. A bloom, state of flowering.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bləʊ/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).