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Definition: Blowpipe |
BlowpipeNoun1. A device that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat. 2. A tube through which darts can be shot by blowing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blowpipe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Metallurgy | A pipe which conveys the blast for a blast furnace from the tuyere stock to the tuyere. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The mixing chamber and blowing tip of the device for oxyacetylene welding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Blowpipe is a man-portable surface-to-air missile which was in use with the British army.It has since been superseded by the Javelin and Starstreak missiles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blowpipe missile."
Synonyms: BlowpipeSynonyms: blow tube (n), blowgun (n), blowtube (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Airpipe | Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack. |
Wind | Air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blowpipe |
| English words defined with "blowpipe": Aethogen ♦ Blowpipe analysis, Blowpipe reaction ♦ Diaspore ♦ oxyhydrogen blowpipe ♦ Pyritology, Pyrochlore, Pyrognostic, Pyrognostics, Pyrosmalite ♦ Zeolite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blowpipe": ball maker, BEAD MAKER, bead tests ♦ flame hardening ♦ glass blowers'cramp, glass technologist, glass-bead maker, GLASS-WORKER, PRESSED OR BLOWN ♦ hooked hands ♦ pricking bar. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "blowpipe": Scorodite. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Blowpipe" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Blowpipe" is used about 18 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) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "blowpipe": Blowpipe analysis ♦ Blowpipe reaction ♦ mouth blowpipe ♦ oxyhydrogen blowpipe. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blowpipe | 26 |
airstream blowpipe | 2 |
blowpipe weapon | 2 |
blowpipe missile | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blowpipe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pipëz (burner, cannulae, lip, mouthpiece, nozzle, quill, Reed). (various references) | |
Arabic | الحملاج أداة نفخ, أنبوب النفخ, أداة لتنظيف تجويف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тръба за спояване. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吹管. (various references) | |
Czech | foukaèka. (various references) | |
Danish | bunsenbraender (blast lamp), braender (eye), blaeseroer (blast pipe), blaeselampe (blast lamp), svejsebrænder, pibe (pipe), glasmagerpibe (blowing iron). (various references) | |
Dutch | brander (blast lamp, burner, incandescent burner, injection wheel, injector, vaporizing burner), blaaspijp (air nozzle, blast pipe, blowing iron, nozzle), lasbrander. (various references) | |
Finnish | bunsenpoltin (blast lamp, gas-air blowpipe(bunsen type)), puhaltajanpilli (blowing iron), puhalluslamppu (blowlamp), poltin (burner), pilli (hooter, straw, whistle). (various references) | |
French | chalumeau (blowlamp, blowtorch). (various references) | |
German | Schneidbrenner (cutting torch, cutting torches). (various references) | |
Greek | καμινέττο (blast lamp), καμινευτήρας,καμινευτικός φυσητήρας, σωλήνας εμφύσησης (blast pipe), υαλουργικός αυλός (blowing iron), φυσητής (blast lamp), λυχνία συγκόλλησης, ακροφύσιο (air nozzle, connection, discharge spout, fipple, injector, jet, mouthpiece, nozzle, pour spout, spout, spray nozzle, sprue bush), τσιμπούκι (pipe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágópisztoly (cutting blowpipe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sumpitan. (various references) | |
Italian | cannello (tube). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 吹管 , 吹き矢 (blowgun, dart). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいか" (drunkard, drunken fellow, water pipe), ふきや (blowgun, dart). (various references) | |
Manx | sheidan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owpipeblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | zarabatana (blowgun), tubo soldador, tubo de vento (blast pipe), maçarico (blowtorch, burner, sandpiper, tattler, torch), cana de vidreiro (blowing iron). (various references) | |
Russian | паяльная трубка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plamenik (oil burner). (various references) | |
Spanish | soplete (blowlamp, blowtorch). (various references) | |
Swedish | blåsrör (blowgun, blow-pipe). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaynak şalumosu, üfleyerek ok atılan boru (blowgun), üfleç (bellows, fanner). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | паяльна трубка. (various references) | |
Welsh | chwythbib. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blowpipe": blowpipes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-o-p-p-w" | |
-3 letters: below, bowel, elbow, obeli. | |
-4 letters: bile, blew, blip, blow, boil, bole, bowl, lipe, lobe, lope, lowe, lwei, pepo, pile, pipe, pleb, plew, plie, plop, plow, pole, pope, wile, wipe. | |
-5 letters: bel, bio, bop, bow, lei, lib, lie, lip, lob, lop, low, obe, obi, oil, ole, ope, owe, owl, pep, pew, pie, pip, poi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-o-p-p-w" | |
+1 letter: blowpipes. | |
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