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Definition: Blowout |
BlowoutNoun1. A gay festivity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | A. A large mineralized outcrop beneath which the vein is smaller, e.g., a great mass of quartz that conceals a vein only a few feet wide. b. A shot or blast that goes off like a gun and does not shatter the rock; a windy shot. c. A large outcrop beneath which the vein is smaller is called a blowout. (slang d. The high-pressure, sometimes violent, and uncontrolled ejection of water, gas, or oil from a borehole e.g., a great mass of quartz that conceals a vein only a few feet wide. b. A shot or blast that goes off like a gun and does not shatter the rock; a windy shot. c. A f. Used by miners and prospectors for a large, more or less isolated, usually barren quartz outcrop. Known in Australia as blow g. To put a blast furnace out of blast, by ceasing to charge fresh materials, and continuing the blast until the contents of the furnace have been smelted h. To smelt the iron-bearing materials in the furnace, adding domestic coke so that the stockline is about normal i. A general term for a small saucer-, cup-, or trough-shaped hollow or depression formed by wind erosion on a preexisting dune or other sand deposit, esp. in an area of shifing sand or loose soil, or where protective vegetation is disturbed or destroyed; the adjoining accumulation of sand derived from the depression, where recognizable, is commonly included. Some blowouts may be many kilometers in diamete. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blowouts are sandy depressions in the Sandhills section of western Nebraska caused by the swirling westerly winds. They are an important habitat for flora and fauna.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blowout."
Synonyms: BlowoutSynonyms: gala (n), gala affair (n), jamboree (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Cessation | Dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death. |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
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Crosswords: Blowout |
| Specialty definitions using "blowout": circulating head ♦ PUMP MECHANIC. (references) |
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Screenplays | I had this blowout. I think there's a spare in the back (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; writing credit: Tania Rose) | |
Movie/TV Titles | His Blowout (1916) | |
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 | IXTOC 1 oil well blowout from helicopter platform on RESEARCHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Aerial photo of eroding marsh and oil from recent well blowout. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Dixon Bay well site being capped after blowout and oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Mt. Vsevidov from the west showing a great blowout in its side. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | This images shows the big gaps in East Timbalier Island left after Hurricane Andrew passed through the area on August 6, 1992. The oil blowout occurred almost one month post hurricane. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Workers measure the extent of oiling after the blowout. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Oiled marsh after the blowout. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The Bay side of East Timbalier Island, oiled sediments after the blowout. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Blowout prevention equipment below drilling platform--blind ram, pipe ram and anular preventer. Credit: Merv Coleman. | ||
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Author Unknown | We seldom lose our faith by a blowout, usually is just a slow leak. |
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Expressions using "blowout": blowout preventer ♦ blowout preventer stack. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "blowout"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpërthim (access, blast, burst, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), plasje (backfire, bang, blast, blowup, burst, cleavage, detonation, plunk, report). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), искрогасител (spark arrester). (various references) | |
Chinese | 爆胎. (various references) | |
Czech | výbuch vzteku, prasknutí duše, žranice (grub). (various references) | |
Danish | slaage, opblæsning, lavning dannet af vinden. (various references) | |
Dutch | windkolk, windgat. (various references) | |
Farsi | پنچری , پنجرشدن , منفجرشدن (Detonate, Erupt, Explode, Puff), ترکیدن (Blow, Burst, Crack, Dehisce, Explode, Pop, Reave, Rive, Rupture), انفجار (Blast, Blowup, Burst, Bust, Eruption, Explosion, Gust, Outburst, Pop). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuulen tekemä onkalo, tuulen kuluttama maa-alue, paineenlasku, hydrostaattisen paineen aiheuttama repeämä, hydrostaattisen paineen aiheuttama murtuma, äkillinen paineenlasku. (various references) | |
French | débourrer, creux de déflation, chaudron éolien, caoudeyre. (various references) | |
German | reifenpanne (flat, puncture), fresserei (gluttony, guzzling, nosh-up, piggishness, scoff). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεφούσκωμα (deflation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hasadótárcsa (blowout panel). (various references) | |
Italian | taffone, scoppio di pneumatico, depressione eolica. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owoutblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruptura (abruption, breach, breakage, breaking, burst, bursting, disruption, rip, rupture, severance, snap), fusível elétrico, depressão eólica, depressão superfície do solo causada pelo vento, arrroubo temperamental, área de deflação. (various references) | |
Russian | задувать;тушить (blow out), проколотая шина, прокол шины. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | eksplozija (blast, blowup, burst, detonation, explosion, fulmination, outburst). (various references) | |
Spanish | ruptura (breach, breakaway, breakdown, breaking, breakthrough, breakup, disruption, parting, rupture, severance, split), reventón (burst, bust, flat tire), pinchazo (fix, flat, flat tire, jab, poke, prick, stab, tap), fusión (coalescence, fusion, melt, melting, merge, merger, merging), excavación eólica, escape (avoidance, blowoff, elopement, escape, escapement, exhaust, exhaust pipe, flight, fuite, getaway, leak, leakage), 3-cavidad de erosión eólica, 2-arranque por sifonamiento, 1-ebullición. (various references) | |
Swedish | bubbling, utblåsning under hydrostatiskt tryck, urblåsning, uppvällning, uppkokning, skrovmål, inbrytning (breakthrough), depression bildad på grund av sand-och jordflykt. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blowout": blowouts. (additional references) | |
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"Blowout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blaworth, bloooop, bloweth, blowgut, Bloxworth, Bludworth, Boxout. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-o-t-u-w" | |
-3 letters: blot, blow, bolo, bolt, boot, bout, bowl, lobo, loot, lout, obol, tolu, tool, wool. | |
-4 letters: boo, bot, bow, but, lob, loo, lot, low, oot, out, owl, too, tow, tub, two, woo, wot. | |
-5 letters: bo, lo, ow, to, ut, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-o-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: blowouts. | |
+4 letters: counterblow. | |
+5 letters: counterblows. | |
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