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Definition: Bellows |
BellowsNoun1. A mechanical device that blows air onto a fire to make it burn more fiercely. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bellows" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Bellows \Bel"lows\, noun. singular plural [from Old English expression bely, below, belly, bellows, Anglo-Saxon b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. plural and the originally sense is bag. See Belly.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Engineering & Technology | A mechanism that expands and contracts or has a rising and falling top, to suck in air through a valve and blow it out through a tube. Source: European Union. (references) |
Bible | Bellows occurs only in Jer. 6:29, in relation to the casting of metal. Probably they consisted of leather bags similar to those common in Egypt. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance. To dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you. To hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help of powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have wasted energies under misguiding impulses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | Made of wood and leather. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The pleated, expansible part in a camera. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The -- may resemble basically the familiar domestic type, operated by hand or foot, but wind is normally supplied from an electric driven rotary blower. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | An expandable device of folded flexible material to cover and protect an moving part. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Bellows The pit of the stomach. To knock a man on the "bellows" takes his "wind (breath) away." Sing old rose and burn the bellows. (See Sing.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. An instrument with an air chamber and flexible sides used for compressing and/or directing a current of air b. An expansible metal device containing a fluid that will volatilize at some desired temperature, expand the device, and open or close an openingor a switch; used in controls and steam traps. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Thin flexible joints of high nickel-content stainless steel between the box sections of the vacuum chamber. The bellows sections are included in order to increase the electrical resistan ce to a level which is high compared to the resistance of the plasma. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BELLOWS. The lungs. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Several metallurgical processes require such heat that it could only be reached after the invention of the bellows.
In musical instruments the bellows is often employed as a substitute or regulator for air pressure provided by the human lungs.
The bellows can also refer to a length or direction adjustable tubular element; in collapsible devices or applications that require as good sealing as possible, or cannot accommodate other methods of achieving those aims.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bellows."
Synonym: BellowsSynonym: blower (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Voice | Noun: voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice; (loud); musical voice; intonation; tone of voice; (sound). |
Wind | Air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bellows |
| English words defined with "bellows": accordion, American organ ♦ Bellows camera ♦ Centriscoid ♦ Dry meter ♦ family Macrorhamphosidae, Foot bellows ♦ harmonium ♦ Macrorhamphosidae ♦ Nose of wax ♦ order Solenichthyes, organ ♦ piano accordion, pipe organ ♦ reed organ, Rock staff ♦ Sea snipe, Sea woodcock fish, Seraphine, Solenichthyes, squeeze box ♦ Trumpet fish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bellows": ACCORDION REPAIRER, ACCORDION TUNER, airflow-equalizing device ♦ BELLOWS ASSEMBLER, BELLOWS FILLER, BELLOWS MAKER, BELLOWS TESTER, Bloman tube breathing apparatus, Briggs equalizer ♦ CHARGING MANIFOLD, Coals ♦ DRY-PLACER-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ field return repairer ♦ Knapp bottom pressure gage ♦ METAL-REED TUNER ♦ PIPE-ORGAN TUNER AND REPAIRER, production repairer ♦ Sing Old Rose, Spirelmo smoke helmet ♦ THERMOSTAT REPAIRER, toroidal vacuum chamber, toroidal vessel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bellows": Physostomi. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Base hospital George W. Bellows. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Dr. C. N. Bellows.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Barber Park, Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Amusements at a small American Legion fair near Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | At an American Legion carnival just outside Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Connecticut River at Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bellows Falls, Vermont, and on the far side of the river, North Walpole, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A tourist farm near Bellows Falls, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bellows restaurant (?) window, unidentified locale. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dante Alighieri | I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He had a large pair of bellows with a long slender muzzle of ivory |
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| "Bellows" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 71.82% of the time. "Bellows" is used about 110 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 71.82% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 17.27% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.91% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 110 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bellows" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bellows | Last name | 2,000 | 7,048 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bellows": A pair of bellows ♦ Bellows camera ♦ bellows Falls ♦ Bellows fish ♦ blow with bellows ♦ Foot bellows ♦ Hydrostatic bellows ♦ pair of bellows ♦ water bellows. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "bellows": bellows-like, bellows-mender. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bellows"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shakull (skin), kacek (skin), gjyryk. (various references) | |
Arabic | كير الحداد (forge), منفاخ (blower, insufflator), الجزء المتمدد من آلة التصوير, الرئتان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мях (fanner, skin), духало. (various references) | |
Chinese | 风箱, 風箱 . (various references) | |
Czech | mìchy. (various references) | |
Danish | blaesebaelg (breathing bag, ventilation bag, ventilation bellows), blæsebælg (lever-operated bellows), baelg (bellow, bladder, follicle, hull, husk, pod), bælge, bælg, rørmanchet. (various references) | |
Dutch | balg (bellow, lever-operated bellows). (various references) | |
Esperanto | balgo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bjølgur. (various references) | |
Finnish | palkeet. (various references) | |
French | soufflet (bellow, lever-operated bellows, ventilation bellows), soufflerie. (various references) | |
German | Blasebalg (air pump, lever-operated bellows), Balg (brat, fell, fur, hide, pelt, skin). (various references) | |
Greek | φυσερό (blower). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפוח (blower). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fújtató (windbag). (various references) | |
Indonesian | hembusan. (various references) | |
Italian | soffietto (air pump, bellow, gusset, lever-operated bellows, protective boot), mantice (hood, supercharger). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛇腹 (ceiling molding, cornice, design of parallel lines). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じゃばら (ceiling molding, cornice, design of parallel lines). (various references) | |
Korean | '무. (various references) | |
Manx | builg-heidee. (various references) | |
Maya | hoopsah. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ellowsbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fole (air pump, bellow, bladder, blow, lever-operated bellows). (various references) | |
Romanian | burduf (skin). (various references) | |
Russian | кузнечные мехи, мехи, мех (coat, fur, leather bottle, pelage). (various references) | |
Scottish | builg (bags). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mehovi, duvalica. (various references) | |
Spanish | fuelle (blower), fuelles. (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsbälg (air pump), bälg (bladder). (various references) | |
Turkish | körük (blower, fan, pair of bellows), akciğer (lung, lungs, pulmonary, pulmonic), üfleç (blowpipe, fanner). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sanaз (leather bag), kцrьk (ash-pit (of a furnace)). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ковальські міхи, гармошка між вагонами, легені (lights). (various references) | |
Welsh | megin. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | follis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bielg. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Exelipen fushthr apo puroV exelipen moliboV eiV kenon argurokopoV argurokopei ponhria autwn ouk etakh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Defecit sufflatorium in igne consumptum est plumbum frustra conflavit conflator malitiae enim eorum non sunt consumptae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Failede the meltende vessel, in fyr wastid is the led, in veyn meltide togidere the yeetere; forsothe the malices of them ben not wastid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. |
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| Language | Jeremiah Chapter 6, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | Ang mga hasohasan mitayhop sa hilabihan gayud; ang tingga giut-ut sa kalayo: kawang lamang ang pagtunaw sa pag-ulay; kay ang dautan wala man mangaluka. |
| Croatian | Mijeh sopæe da bi vatra proždrla olovo, zalud se ljevaè trudi da ga rastopi: šljaka se ne da izluèiti." |
| Danish | Bælgen blæser, af Ilden kommer kun Bly. Al Smelten er spildt, de onde udskilles ej. |
| Dutch | De blaasbalg is verbrand, het lood is van het vuur verteerd; te vergeefs heeft de smelter zo vlijtiglijk gesmolten, dewijl de bozen niet afgetrokken zijn. |
| Finnish | Palkeet puhkuvat, tulesta lähtee vain lyijyä. Turhaan on sulatettu ja sulatettu: pahat eivät ole erottuneet. |
| French | Le soufflet est brûlant, Le plomb est consumé par le feu; C`est en vain qu`on épure, Les scories ne se détachent pas. |
| German | Der Blasebalg ist verbrannt, das Blei verschwindet; das Schmelzen ist umsonst, denn das Böse ist nicht davon geschieden. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Peleburan sudah sangat panas, tapi kotoran logam tak mau juga meleleh dan hilang. Percuma umat-Ku terus-menerus diuji untuk dimurnikan, sebab orang-orangnya yang jahat tidak disingkirkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa hembusan itu hanguslah tetapi dari pada api keluar timah juga; cuma-cuma dihancurkan dia akan dibersihkan pula; tak boleh dijauhkan sanganya. |
| Italian | Il mantice soffia con forza, il piombo è consumato dal fuoco; invano si vuol raffinarlo a ogni costo, le scorie non si separano. |
| Maori | Kei te kaka te hau o te pupuhi ahi; kua pau te mata i te ahi, maumau whakarewa noa te kaitahi para: kahore nei hoki te hunga kino kia unuhia atu. |
| Norwegian | Blåsebelgen er opbrent av ilden, blyet er fortært; forgjeves har de smeltet og smeltet, og de onde er ikke skilt ut. |
| Portuguese | Já o fole se queimou; o chumbo se consumiu com o fogo; debalde continuam a fundição, pois os maus não são arrancados. |
| Rumanian | Foalele ard, plumbul este topit de foc; degeaba curqyesc, cqci zgura nu se deslipewte.`` |
| Russian | тБЪ"ХЧБМШОЩК НЕИ П'ЗПТЕМ, УЧЙОЕ" ЙУФМЕМ ПФ ПЗОС: МБЧЙМШЭЙЛ МБЧЙМ ОБ ТБУОП, Й'П ЪМЩЕ ОЕ ПФ"ЕМЙМЙУШ; |
| Spanish | El fuelle sopla, y el plomo es consumido por el fuego. En vano se esfuerza el fundidor, pues los malos no se desprenden. |
| Swedish | Blåsbälgen pustar, men ur elden kommer allenast bly fram; allt luttrande är förgäves, slagget biiver ändå icke frånskilt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Bellows" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bedlowe, Bellew, Bellos, Belloso, belous, belown, belows, Benlowes, bollow, Bullow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bellows" (pronounced be"lōz) |
| 4 | -e" l ō z | fellows, yellows. |
| 3 | -l ō z | armadillos, bedfellows, billows, follows, furloughs, gallows, hallows, halos, hollows, mallows, marshmallows, Milos, pillows, solos, swallows. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-l-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: bellow, belows, bowels, elbows. | |
-2 letters: bells, below, blows, boles, bolls, bowel, bowls, bowse, elbow, lobes, losel, lowes, lowse, swell, wells. | |
-3 letters: bell, bels, blew, blow, bole, boll, bowl, bows, ells, lobe, lobs, lose, lowe, lows, obes, oles, owes, owls, owse, sell, slew, slob, sloe, slow, sole, swob, webs, well, woes. | |
-4 letters: bel, bos, bow. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-l-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: cowbells, snowbell, sowbelly. | |
+2 letters: bellowers, bellworts, blowflies, blowholes, bowelless, snowbells. | |
+3 letters: bedfellows, billowiest, snowballed, sowbellies. | |
+4 letters: bellflowers, disbowelled, glassblower, swallowable. | |
+5 letters: collywobbles, disbowelling, glassblowers, globeflowers. | |
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