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BLOWING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Processing that involves blowing a gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("blowing" is a kind of...):
processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blowing"):
insufflation ((medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity))
Derivation:
blow (shape by blowing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blow
Context examples:
Laurie smiled, took it, put it in his vest pocket 'to keep it from blowing away', and listened with interest to the lively letter Amy read him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Behind the bowmen strode two trumpeters blowing upon nakirs, and two drummers in parti-colored clothes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It has been pouring rain and blowing a hurricane ever since,” said he.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Towards midnight he was about to poke his fire, and as he was blowing it, something cried suddenly from one corner: Au, miau! how cold we are!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It was blowing a gale of wind; but because he was announced to go he insisted on starting.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home,” replied Mr. Hyde, blowing in the key.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
C. tyrobutyricum is present in milk and causes late-blowing defect in cheeses with high pH leading to product loss.
(Clostridium tyrobutyricum, NCI Thesaurus)
Usually, it also involves blowing air into the person’s mouth to help with breathing and send oxygen to the lungs.
(Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, NCI Dictionary)
’Twas a carronade that came adrift in the Bay when it was blowing a top-gallant breeze with a beam sea.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
