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BLOWING OUT

Specialty Definition: BLOWING OUT

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Metallurgy

The process of taking a blast furnace out of commission. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: BLOWING OUT

Specialty definitions using "BLOWING OUT": double loadSolar Corona, stemming material. (references)

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Modern Usage: BLOWING OUT

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Screenplays

I remember one day I was at the bus stop and this cool fall breeze came blowing out of nowhere and totally lifted this chick's skirt. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Clever

Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter. (references; author: unknown)

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Modern Translation: BLOWING OUT

Language Translations for "BLOWING OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bakke af (to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uit bedrijf nemen (discard, out of use, to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission). (various references)

   

French

  

mise hors feu (to blow down, to blow out), arrêter (to blow down, to blow out), arrêt (to blow down, to blow out). (various references)

   

German

  

ausblasend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θέση εκτός λειτουργίας (to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission), θέτω εκτός λειτουργίας (to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission, to take out of service). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spegnere (be extinguished, blow out, cut off, die down, douse, extinguish, fade, go out, pass away, put, put off, put out, quench, shut off, slake, snuff, stub out, switch off, turn out), arresto (apprehension, arrest, capture, check, deadlock, detention, halt, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage), arrestare (apprehend, arrest, block, check, halt, Nick, pause, staunch, stay, stem, stop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owingblay outay

   

Portuguese

  

paragem (checkout, flag-station, intermission, location, place, spot, standstill, station, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apagado (burnt-out, dead, dull, extinct, lacklustre, muffled, murmurous, muted, off, out, sad, thick). (various references)

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Anagrams: BLOWING OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-o-t-u-w"

-3 letters: biltong, blowgun, blowing, blowout, bolting, booting, botulin, bowling, butling, longbow, looting, louting, outglow, tooling.

-4 letters: bluing, bonito, booing, bouton, bowing, globin, goblin, logion, looing, lotion, lowing, lubing, luting, oblong, outing, tiglon, toling, towing, tubing, unbolt, wooing.

-5 letters: bigot, bingo, biont, blown, blunt, boing, bongo, built, glint, glout, gluon, guilt, igloo, ingot, lingo, logoi.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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