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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blower has 3 senses
- blower(n = noun.artifact) Array - a device that produces a current of air; Array has particulars: bellows, blow drier, blow dryer, hair drier, hair dryer, hand blower
- blower(n = noun.artifact) electric fan - a fan run by an electric motor; Array has parts: electric motor, fan blade, hub
- blower(n = noun.animal) cetacean, cetacean mammal - large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals; Array is a kind of aquatic mammal
is a kind of device
Derived forms verb blow14, verb blow13
is a kind of fan
Derived forms verb blow14, verb blow13
is a member of cetacea, order cetacea, pod
has particulars: whale
has parts: fluke, blowhole
CIDE DICTIONARY
blower, n.
- One who, or that which, blows. [1913 Webster]
- A device for producing a current of air; as:
(a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire.(b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc. [1913 Webster] - A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine. [1913 Webster]
- The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water. [1913 Webster]
- A small fish of the Atlantic coast (
Tetrodon turgidus ); the puffer. [1913 Webster] - A braggart, or loud talker. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blower, n.
1 in senses of BLOW(1) v.
2 a device for creating a current of air.
3 colloq. a telephone.
1 in senses of BLOW(1) v.
2 a device for creating a current of air.
3 colloq. a telephone.
THESAURUS
blower
Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air filter, air passage, bellows, big mouth, blowgun, blowhard, blowpipe, blowtube, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, fanfaron, flabellum, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, punkah, rodomontade, thermantidote, ventilator, windbag, windcatcher, windjammer, windsail, windscoop, windyROGET THESAURUS
blower
Boasting
N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.
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