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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•lows /ˈbɛloʊz/USA pronunciation n. [countable]* [used with a singular or plural verb]- a device for producing a strong current of air by drawing air in and pushing it out through a tube:a bellows for increasing the draft to a fire.
- Photographysomething resembling a bellows, as lungs.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•lows (bel′ōz, -əz),USA pronunciation n. ( used with a sing. or pl. v.) - Photographya device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube.
- Photographyanything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
- the lungs.
- bef. 900; Middle English bel(o)wes (plural), Old English belg, short for blǣst belg, plural belgas blast-bag; cognate with Dutch blaasbalg, German Blasebalg, Old Norse belgr. See belly
bel′lows•like′, adj. Bel•lows (bel′ōz),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bellows /ˈbɛləʊz/ n (functioning as singular or plural)- Also called: pair of bellows an instrument consisting of an air chamber with flexible sides or end, a means of compressing it, an inlet valve, and a constricted outlet that is used to create a stream of air, as for producing a draught for a fire or for sounding organ pipes
- a flexible corrugated element used as an expansion joint, pump, or means of transmitting axial motion
Etymology: 16th Century: from plural of Old English belig belly WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•low /ˈbɛloʊ/USA pronunciation v. - to shout or speak in a loud voice similar to the cry of a bull: [no object]The gym teacher kept bellowing at us.[~ + object]He bellowed a warning at us.[used with quotations]"Step back,'' he bellowed.
- (of an animal) to roar;
bawl:[no object]The cows bellowed in the distance. n. [countable] - an act or sound of bellowing:He let out a loud bellow.
bel•low•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bel•low (bel′ō),USA pronunciation v.i. - to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
- to roar;
bawl:bellowing with rage. v.t. - to utter in a loud deep voice:He bellowed his command across the room.
n. - an act or sound of bellowing.
- bef. 1000; Middle English belwen, akin to Old English bylgan to roar (compare for the vowel Old High German bullôn); extended form akin to bell2
bel′low•er, n. - 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See cry.
Bel•low (bel′ō),USA pronunciation n. - Biographical Saul, born 1915, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel prize for literature 1976.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bellow /ˈbɛləʊ/ vb - (intransitive) to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
- to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl
n - the characteristic noise of a bull
- a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger
Etymology: 14th Century: probably from Old English bylgan; related to bellan to bell² |