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Date "BLOW-UP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Rupture of a concrete pavement under the action of expansion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | An optical copy with a larger scale than the original. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A sudden increase in fire intensity and rate of flame-spread, sufficient to preclude direct control or to upset existing control plans; often accompanied by violent convection and may have other characteristics of a fire storm. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BLOW-UP. A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLOW-UP |
| Specialty definitions using "BLOW-UP": BLOW-UP OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLOW-UP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLOW-UP" is used about 22 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 (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLOW-UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pludselig opflamning og spredning, forstoerrelse (enlargement, projection print), eksplosiv opblusning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vergroting (aggrandizement, enlargement, increase), plotselinge brand-explosie, lift (elevator, lift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suurennos (enlargement, projection print), palon räjähdysmäinen leviäminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tirage optique par agrandissement, remontée en ballon (blowing up, blowup), gonflage (blowing up), flambage (blackscraping), flambée explosive, agrandissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Blow-up (blowing up), Vergrößerungsfaktor (enlargement, projection print), Stauchung (buckling), Explosion (blast, burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination), Ausknicken, Ausbruch (break out, breakaway, eruption, escape, explosion, gush, gust, jailbreak, onset, outbreak, outburst, raptures, Sally), Aufflammen (blaze up, flame up, flare up, inflammation, kindle, to flame up, to flash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγέθυνση (enlargement, magnification), εκρηκτική φλόγισις,έκρηξις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felnagyított térkép, dühroham (access, blaze of anger, blowup, conniption, conniption fit, fume, paddywhack, tantrum, transport of rage, wax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vampata (blaze, blush, burst of flame, flash, flush), rottura di carreggiata in conglomerato cementizio sotto l'azione della dilatazione, risalita a pallone (blowing up), ingrandimento (aggrandisement, aggrandizement, augmentation, enlargement, magnification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ow-upblay explosão (blast, bursting, bust, detonation, discharge, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, upsurge). (various references) взрывать взрыв. (various references) reavivado repentino, reavivación, explosión incendiaria, amplificación (amplification, dilation, expansion, extension, upgrade, upgrading), ampliación (aggrandizement, blowup, development, enlargement, extension, increase). (various references) förstoring (aggrandizement, enlargement, magnification), explosivt uppblossande. (various references) sự nổ sự rầy la, sự chửi mắng cơn giận dữ, cơn phẫn nộ tranh phóng to. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blowup. | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-p-u-w" | |
-1 letter: upbow. | |
-2 letters: blow, bowl, loup, plow. | |
-3 letters: bop, bow, lob, lop, low, owl, pol, pow, pub, pul, upo, wop. | |
-4 letters: bo, lo, op, ow, up, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-p-u-w" | |
+1 letter: blowups. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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