different between bellow vs blower

English

Alternative forms

• (US, dialectal) beller

Etymology

From Middle English belwen, from Old English bylgian, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to sound, roar”), whence also belg (“leather bag”), bellan (“to roar”), bl?wan (“to blow”). Cognate with German bellen (“to bark”), Russian ??????? (bléjat?, “baa, bleat”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?lo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

bellow (plural bellows)

1. The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.

Translations

Verb

bellow (third-person singular simple present bellows, present participle bellowing, simple past and past participle bellowed)

1. To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.

   • the bellowing voice of boiling seas

2. To shout in a deep voice.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English blower, from Old English bl?were; equivalent to blow +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A person who blows.
2. Any device that blows.
3. (slang, chiefly Britain, usually preceded by the) Telephone.

   Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

   1. (slang, Britain, historical) A telephone service providing betting odds and commentary, relayed to customers in a bookmaker's shop via loudspeaker.
4. A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
6. The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

Translations

Anagrams

• Bowler, Wrobel, bowler, worble

Indonesian

Etymology

From English blower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?blow?r]
• Hyphenation: blo?wêr

Noun

blower (plural blower-blower, first-person possessive blowerku, second-person possessive blowermu, third-person possessive blowernya)

1. blower: a ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.

Further reading

• “blower” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blawer, blauere, blowere

Etymology

From Old English bl?were.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /?bl?u??r(?)/

Noun

blower (plural blowers)

1. A player of a wind instrument.
2. (rare) One who blows a bellows.
3. (rare) A tool or instrument used by blowing.
4. (rare) A person who converses in a vain or crude way.

Descendants

• English: blower
• Scots: blawer

References

• “blouere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.