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单词 bellows
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
bel•lows /ˈbɛloʊz/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]* [used with a singular or plural verb]
  1. 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.
  2. Photographysomething resembling a bellows, as lungs.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bel•lows  (belōz, -əz),USA pronunciation n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.)
  1. 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.
  2. Photographyanything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
  3. 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
bellows•like′, adj. 

Bel•lows  (belōz),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
bellows /ˈbɛləʊz/ n (functioning as singular or plural)
  1. 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
  2. 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 © 2024
bel•low /ˈbɛloʊ/USA pronunciation   v. 
  1. 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.
  2. (of an animal) to roar;
    bawl:[no object]The cows bellowed in the distance.

n. [countable]
  1. 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 © 2024
bel•low  (belō),USA pronunciation v.i. 
  1. to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
  2. to roar;
    bawl:bellowing with rage.

v.t. 
  1. to utter in a loud deep voice:He bellowed his command across the room.

n. 
  1. 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
bellow•er, n. 
    • 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See cry. 

Bel•low  (belō),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Biographical Saul, born 1915, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel prize for literature 1976.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
bellow /ˈbɛləʊ/ vb
  1. (intransitive) to make a loud deep raucous cry like that of a bull; roar
  2. to shout (something) unrestrainedly, as in anger or pain; bawl
n
  1. the characteristic noise of a bull
  2. a loud deep sound, as of pain or anger
Etymology: 14th Century: probably from Old English bylgan; related to bellan to bell²
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